When the Duke LaCrosse boys were first accused then publicly vilified, I was outraged at the injustice. When they were finally cleared, I was still angry over the treatment they had received not only from our legal system and the news, but from the various Women’s groups on and off the Duke campus.

Duke University and it’s various Women’s organizations have once again done themselves proud:

Several Duke University campus organizations, including the Women’s Center, the Student Health Center, and the Women’s Studies Department, sponsored a “Sex Workers Art Show” on February 3rd, at which nearly-nude “artists” danced for students and others while vulgarly criticizing America via acts such as a woman’s pretending to eat excreted dollar bills and a man’s kneeling with an American flag inserted in his rear end.  Two years ago, Duke’s men’s lacrosse team was vilified by the Duke administration and faculty merely for hiring two female strippers for a party (from which emanated false charges of rape and the eventual disbarment of the local district attorney).  A University spokesman explained to a National Journal reporter that the recent show was acceptable because it was “art” and “social commentary,” rather than male-bonding entertainment. [National Journal, 2-11-08; Raleigh News & Observer, 2-6-08]

We’ve tried unsuccessfully to find an attorney. We’ve even called the attorneys the first unavailable attorneys referred us to. Everyone is booked solid until at least April. Is Maryland the divorce/custody battle capital of the US? All we want is a little legal advice… 30 minutes of their time!

Surely there are dead attorneys rolling in their graves right now…. Wait, I’ll talk to them for a small fee and their firstborn!!!!! We’ll keep trying.

 

Beautiful day here today. Sun shining, gentle breeze blowing. After taking the fur faces out for their necessary at noon, I spotted a neighbor sitting in the field with his boxer-mix pup and took the dogs over for a romp. Suzie, my little antisocial princess, did wonderfully. She played with his pup and actually let the guy touch her for a second. Real progress for her. I’m hoping I catch them out more often… Suzie needs the socialization.

I commented a few weeks ago on the girls who had stolen cookie money from a girlscout. Here’s an updated version of the story:

Two Park Vista High School girls who admitted that they swiped money off the table of a Girl Scout selling cookies at a supermarket in Boynton Beach, Fla., in January told WPBF-TV later that they had no remorse.  Said one (on camera):  ”We went through all that effort to get [the money].  We got all these charges [against us], and we had to give the money back.  I’m kind of pissed.”  Added the other, “I’m not sorry.  I’m just pissed that I got caught.”  The victim’s mother said that the girls returned to the supermarket the next day and taunted the little girl. [WPBF-TV (West Palm Beach), 2-1-08]

While reading the above story, I happened upon this one:

Trust Me…..

The divorce of Anton Popazov and his wife Nataliya is about to go through, but the couple are still contractually committed to the Moscow State Circus, where their act includes Nataliya’s shooting an apple off of Anton’s head with a crossbow.  The Times of London asked Anton during a show in Sheffield, England, in February whether he was afraid.  ”I still trust her because Nataliya is very professional,” he said.  ”The show must go on.” [The Times (London), 2-12-08]

As Bugs would have said… What a Maroon!