Let’s Eat!!
The idea — to replace cupcakes with oranges in math problems — is not a bad one. It’s not a demonstrably good one either, since the correlation between food references in arithmetic problems and dietary behavior has never been empirically established.
Whether the idea is good, bad, or indifferent, it is certainly far from novel. The decision by educational publishers to replace junk foods with “healthful” alternatives dates back at least four decades.
When it comes to ingenuity, drug smugglers are second to none. Even though they were nabbed by the federales last January, two Bronx neighbors deserve credit for attempting to sneak six and one half kilos of cocaine through customs at JFK Airport by stashing the goods in makeshift adult diapers.
It is a crime that, were it not for the recent sensational story of three women held in captivity in a Cleveland home for 12 years, would be hard to fathom in terms of its duration and the degree of abuse suffered by the victim. The one common thread running through both stories is that they are over, the victims returned to their families, the perpetrators in custody.
If there is anything positive that can be said about a workshop held at the University of Central Florida last month it is that you cannot contract gonorrhea by touching sex organs made out of Play-doh.
Campus Reform reports that the workshop was conducted by a “sex expert” (sexpert?) from a local adult toy store called Fairvilla. It is not clear what educational value is to be derived from learning to carve genitals out of modeling clay, but the event, titled “Finals? That blows,” also included a condom hunt.
Making a clean breast of it
The most optimistic reading one can lend the story is that these women are fighting fire with fire. Yahoo! News reports that women’s rights protesters in Berlin, Germany, disrupted the opening of a giant pink doll’s house — called the Barbie “Dreamhouse Experience” — claiming that it exploits women.
For most cell phone users, “pocket dialing” — activating one of the phone’s pre-programmed hot keys with your gluteus maximus — is more of a nuisance than anything else. But for a couple of druggies/car thieves in California, an unintended seat-of-the-pants phone call was a one-way ticket to the slammer.
The formerly happy couple
Another woman scorned, another near-castration. The Smoking Gun reports that a 19-year-old Florida woman “lost it” after her live-in boyfriend refused to have sex with her. He came close to losing it himself when she bit down on his penis in retaliation.
Krystle Harrison was arrested on Thursday on misdemeanor domestic battery charges. Her beau, Jeffrey Wilkinson, 24, told police the couple was in bed late last night in their Bradenton home when Harrison became frisky.
Are any non-Gosnell abortions inside the womb, not gruesome?
To hear liberals in the media express shock, however belatedly, at how “gruesome” and “grisly” were the murders of newborns by “Doctor” Kermit Gosnell following botched, third-trimester abortions, one would think that your average run of the mill abortion more resembled the merciful deaths of convicted murderers by lethal injection, if not a manicure.
You’ve heard the expression “the honeymoon is over.” For recent newlywed Mohammed Ahmed, the honeymoon was over before it started. The Daily Mail reports that the 21-year-old Illinois man was arrested for soliciting a prostitute while on his honeymoon with his new wife in Florida.
Ahmed was among 92 people nabbed in a prostitution sweep conducted by Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
The alleged john answered an online ad, on website Backpage.com, which, to his horror, turned out to be planted by an undercover deputy as part of the four-day operation.
Despite intimations earlier today of a hung jury in the trail of former Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, jurors minutes ago returned a verdict of guilty on three of four counts of first-degree murder involving the deaths of four babies. The doctor, who ran a clinic in West Philadelphia, was was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of patient Karnamaya Mongar.