I heard about this on the radio coming in to work this morning:

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Thirteen members of a high school lacrosse team have been disciplined for baring their bottoms on which was written a prom invitation from one player to a girl.

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The varsity lacrosse players displayed the question, “Will You Go To The Prom With Me? Yes or No?” on their bottoms, which they bared during a junior varsity game last Thursday.

Officials suspended the 13 players for an undetermined number of games and ordered them to perform 20 hours of community service. They also were suspended from school for one day.

“Inappropriate is inappropriate,” school athletic director Dottie Davis told The Ann Arbor News. “It disrespects women, and that’s the clear message we need to have the students understand — what may be fun to them isn’t necessarily fun to everyone else.”

Ah, but wait!:

Carolyn Campbell, a senior at Huron High School, accepted the invitation to go to the prom with fellow senior Kristoff Wennersten.

The punishment seems awfully harsh for such a harmless prank. But hey, hopefully the kid gets some.

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On behalf of the F&S writers, I would like to extend our apologies for not keeping up with the blog recently. As I’ve said before, Aynnie can’t really blog these days because of a filter on her browser at work.

Damn capitalists. Wanting their employees to WORK! Bastards.

The rest of us have varying excuses– none of which are very good.

We’ll have to get together and decide what the future of F&S is shortly, but in the meantime, please accept this apology and enjoy your reading.

-Sue

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CHINA!

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.

The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.

That’s right, hippies. You’ve been supporting the Chinese government by buying your ‘Free Tibet’ flags from companies that pay Chinese taxes.  Thus, in your own special and smelly way, financing the oppression of the people you want to protect. Smooth.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for Tibetan freedom (and shit), but this is just funny.

Via Fark.

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So I’m scanning the Times of London this morning and I see this pic of exiled Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal:

Look familar?

Seriously, have you ever seen Taylor and Khaled in the same room together?

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Brooke needs your help! Please give what you can to the Free the Jefferson 1 Defense Fund!

(Sorry the button doesn’t work. I snatched the graphic. The information is in the link!!!)

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For updates and links about what the hell is going on, go to this website.

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So, our friend is out of jail and has been assigned a court date. Needless to say, everyone involved is of varying degrees of pissed off.

Megan, Radley, Julian, and Jason all have good takes on what went down — I suggest checking out their posts for some insight–and a little laughter too.

Photographs, video and eyewitnesses aplenty, this should be a slam dunk against the government — but that does not mean that this is all ok. An arrest is still an arrest and our friend faces consequences for doing absolutely nothing wrong. She was polite, cooperative and stone-cold sober. Her crime, in addition to “bopping” (as overheard spoken by one of the arresting officers), was apparently inquiring as to what exactly she was doing wrong. For that, she was thrown up against a pillar in front of about 20 friends and summarily arrested — for quietly celebrating TJ’s birthday.

It should be noted that if she was “MMM-bopping,” the officers may have had a stronger case. But that is neither here nor there.

N.B.:

After calming down a bit, I realized that the original version of this post may have, albeit unintentionally, painted the entire police force with a single stroke. The simple fact of the matter is that this was a wrongful arrest by a single police officer or group of officers. This should not even reflect the entire Park Police or even all those on duty last evening/this morning.

That said, I have no love for that particular officer and his over-the-top actions.

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I don’t have time to get into it too deeply right now, but a very good friend of F&S (whom shall remain nameless for the moment) was arrested at the Jefferson Memorial tonight for dancing in celebration of his birthday.

We have bloggers working on this (and real journos too!) that you can find here and, as more information becomes available, here and here.

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There is a new threat to the people of Venezuela: Bart Simpson.

He is a garish shade of yellow, a menace to his teachers, a constant source of anguish for his family . . . and now deemed likely to corrupt the children of Venezuela, which has banished Bart Simpson and co from the airwaves.

“It had to be taken off,” a spokeswoman for Televen, a private television station, said of The Simpsons, after receiving an order from the National Telecommunications Commission. “They consider it to be a series that isn’t appropriate for that time, because it isn’t appropriate for children.”

Ok. So maybe some of the adult themes of this prime time Sunday American staple are indeed inappropriate for 11 A.M. viewing. I am sure that the Venezuelan government will ensure that quality family programming replaces America’s most celebrated underachiever:

In an effort to maintain ratings, it will broadcast Baywatch Hawaii, the 1990s show featuring a cast of swimsuit-clad women and muscle-bound lifeguards that a group of British mothers once condemned as soft porn.

Sex + family programming? What a brilliant concept! Write PBS! We need big-breasted women running in slow-motion on Sesame Street! Adult American male illiteracy will vanish!

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Ok. I’m going to have to turn in my libertarian card for this one:

An Australian man and his adult daughter went public about their incestuous relationship after having a baby together, as it emerged that a previous child of the couple died a few days after birth.

John Deaves, 61, and his daughter Jenny, 39, have a 9-month-old daughter but have been banned from having sex after a court convicted the pair on two counts of incest.

“The couple are being monitored by the relevant authorities,” a South Australia state police spokesman told Reuters today.

The case provoked international media attention when the couple appeared on Australia’s 60 Minutes programme to explain their relationship, which began when the two were re-united eight years ago.

I might be able to say that as consenting adults, however depraved, they should be allowed to do as they wish. But kids?????

[T]he Australian Associated Press said on Monday that court documents showed they had another child in 2001 who died from congenital heart problems.

Congenital heart problems? Really? They’re lucky they didn’t have flipper babies!!!

Sick. Fuck.

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