O, How The Mighty Fall!

Yesssssssssssss. I love it when a plan comes together.

Okay, so after weeks of hearing fawning, putrid drivel about what a wonderful and wholesome thing this "High School Musical" thing is....

And after weeks and weeks of hearing lofty praise for that squeaky and wholesome Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron duo....

Really. All that sappy, gooey tripe was enough to make a feller lose his lunch.

Oh, yes. "High School Musical" is the shizzle, indeed. No drugs. No violence. No sex. Just kids having fun.

All in all, the critics have been saying, everything about the TV musical is good, good, good for teens, teens, teens.

But wait!

No sex....

No sex...?

Then what about this cute little photo 18-year-old Miss 'Nessa took for winsome Mr. Zac?

Give me a freakin' break!

Yeah, that's right. Her shit stinks!

Ain't she the role model for your teenage daughter?

Holy Crap!

You know that blue bar thingy that lives on top of Blogger blogs?


Yeah, that's the thing I'm talking about.

Well, have you ever clicked on the "Next Blog>" thing?

Ooof. That'll take you on an adventure. I went through blogs from the Philippines, Germany, the UK, and other exciting places like that. Too bad I don't speak Tagalog or German. The UK blog was about an outfit that installs generators for public events. My blood pressure peaked after about two paragraphs of the generator saga, and I had to move on to calmer pastures.

And then came the smut blogs....

Wow. If you ever get bored--and if you're brave enough--give it a try. Frankly, it was too much for my wimpy constitution.

Street Justice In Tehran

Or at least justice as it occurs on the street. Gleaned from the Daily Mail via Snoop at politicalpartypoop.com:

His face covered by a balaclava, an official brandishing a cane repeatedly lashes the back of a man found guilty of breaking Iran's morality laws.

Two police officers hold the legs of 25-year-old Saeed Ghanbari and another his arms to ensure there is no escape from the punishment of 80 lashes handed down by a religious court.

Traffic was brought to a halt in Qazvin, 90 miles west of the capital Tehran, as more than 1,000 men gathered behind barricades to watch the public flogging.

So why was this terrible thing happening to Saeed? The Daily Mail continues:

It was unclear exactly what his offence had been as the country's strict morality laws cover many areas, but it was reported he had been convicted of abusing alcohol and having sex outside of marriage.

The public lashings have been endorsed by the judiciary as a way of deterring alcohol abuse at a time when it is on the increase among young men but some religious leaders are said to be questioning their validity, fearing they have an adverse impact on the country's image abroad.

Although men and women convicted of flouting public morals are routinely flogged in detention centres, public floggings are considered rare.

Hmmmm. It seems to me that if our own judicial system called for public floggings for people who got drunk and had sex outside of marriage, there'd be a whole shitload of public floggings going on.

Lesson to be learned: Don't move to Iran.