FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1998 file photo, Mary Kay LeTourneau listens to testimony during her court hearing.

 Mary Kay Letourneau a formerly married teacher who became infamous for having an affair with a sixth-grader is hosting a party with the former student, who's now her husband. And get this, their party is being called Hot for Teacher night. Hah, hah, snicker, snicker.

What I want to know is, would there be as many laughs if it had the teacher had been male and the student female? The guy would have been labeled a pedophile and a child molester and shunned. He wouldn't be standing in a club glad handing partygoers when they show up.  Granted, the couple is legally married now and their teacher-student relationship took place years ago, but what's that bar owner thinking?  This is celebrating child molesting - hah, hah, wink, wink. This will be the third time they've done it. Hah, hah, whoa buddy!

Granted, Letourneau served her prison time. She and her new husband are the parents of two children from this union. Maybe they're hosting the Hot for Teacher nights to make a little extra cash. I'm sensing some serious mental issues must be at play.... What do you think? Should folks in Seattle just let the past be the past and pay up at the door, or should they shun the party because of the ick factor?  

Beware, skinny jeans wearers. Apparently, you can suffer health repercussions if your pants are overly tight. Now, I never heard of this either. But according to MSNBC, it's called "meralgia paresthetica, also known as 'tingling thigh syndrome.'" 

"Typically, sufferers of the nerve condition include construction workers or police officers with heavy, low-slung belts, pregnant women or obese people; it also can result from a pulled-tight seat belt in a car accident.But over the last several years, experts say they’ve been seeing more young women at a healthy weight complain of symptoms. The culprit: too-tight jeans." -- MSNBC 

Check out this unusual way that a Detroit judge has come up with to force men to live up to their responsibilities. He's making wayward fathers watch the "Maury" show. That's right, the show by Maury Povich, the king of baby daddy/baby mama drama. Now, if that move by the judge isn't cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. Of course, I'm having a little fun with the idea of sentencing men who are behind on their child support payments with watching other fathers vehemently deny paternity before learning the results of their DNA tests on national T.V.  (If you've watched "Maury," then you know how sad and appalling this display of irresponsibility can be.) But you've got to at least give it to this judge in Detroit for trying an unconventional approach to make people do what they're supposed to do anyway.     

The Associated Press -- The studio audience isn't alone in cheering for Maury Povich. A Michigan judge, inspired by watching the syndicated talk show "Maury," has sentenced several dozen men so far this year to watch the show as part of their probation for overdue child support. The defendants must watch the show and discuss episodes with their probation officer.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree says he took over the "deadbeat dads docket" in January after watching "too much of this terrible daytime TV" over the holidays. Watching episodes of "Maury," he said Monday, "was an eye-opener for me," and inspired him to use the show to help defendants realize the error of their ways.

"They see that people who laugh at that show are laughing at them," he said. "I'm trying to hold up a mirror."

"Maury" often deals with parenthood and child support, including raucous segments featuring men who deny fathering children and undergo testing to determine paternity.

Not every deadbeat dad is sentenced to watch the show, McCree said "some are hopeless and have to go to jail" while others have special circumstances such as job loss that have caused them to fall behind on payments.

"It's that group in the middle: What can I do to impact their lives," he said.

It's too early to tell if the show is making a difference, McCree said.

"At least it did give them a momentary focus, and I'll take what I can get out of these guys," he said.

Word of McCree's unique sentencing practice reached the producers of "Maury," who invited him on the show. An episode featuring McCree was taped April 1 and will air Thursday.

Povich says McCree is "thinking outside the box in terms of punishment," and more importantly, is calling attention to an important social issue.

"The question of whether young women are conducting themselves in a way that they would know who the fathers are, or the men who are going around bedding these women without using protection or any attempt to prevent pregnancy I believe that is an undeniable social issue in this country, and I think Judge McCree has given us more legitimacy than most people would think we have," Povich said.

"I'll endorse anything that works," he added.

Bristol Palin and her father, Todd, in New York, during her media tour for the Candies Foundation.

Awwww, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the former GOP vice presidential nominee, has big reason to celebrate about now. According to the Associated Press, 18-old Bristol Palin received her diploma Thursday night from Wasilla High School. People magazine is reporting that Bristol wore a necklace of Blow-Pop lollipops strung together with curly gift ribbon as she collected her sheepskin. Bristol gave birth to a son, Tripp, in December.

Iman arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York, on Monday, May 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)

I got these quotes from an email from the folks at Parade magazine, who interviewed Iman, the fashion model. What do you make of what she says?  

“Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty,” Iman, 53 says in Sunday's  PARADE. “But she is so interesting looking and so bright. That will always take you farther. When you’re a great beauty, it’s always downhill for you. If you’re someone like Mrs. Obama, you just get better with age.”

The magazine also asked, the fashion icon if it was difficult to have been one of  the first black supermodels? 

“I did feel a bit ostracized,” Iman says in PARADE. “You suddenly represent a whole race, and that race goes, ‘Well, that person does not represent our ideals of beauty.’ For lack of a better term, it becomes what it was like during slavery. One had the field n— and the house n—. There was this notion that I was chosen by white fashion editors to be better than the rest, which I am  not. I did not like being thought of as the house n— whether it was spoken or whether it was understood. It always left a bad taste in my mouth. I call it ‘the politics of beauty’ because fashion can sometimes be an assault on one’s identity.”

Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, listens during a news conference in New York, Tuesday May 12, 2009.

Miss California Carrie Prejean, who made headlines after voicing her opposition to gay marriage at the Miss USA contestant,  is about to extend her 15 minutes of fame even longer. She's going to get to do a little guest hosting on Fox. U.S. News &  World Report broke the story today on its Washington Whisper blog. Perez Hilton and others need not worry though. It's reportedly only a one-day gig. But who knows? Could be the start though of a whole other career for Prejean. Is anyone surprised? 

A new study confirms how some folks use photos from the deceased much younger days instead of something taken more recently. Nah, say it ain't so. Joking aside, you see this all the time on newspaper obit pages -  a photograph of a 30-something person attached to the death notice of someone in their 80s. It looks a little disconcerting if you ask me. But you probably can't blame the person being written about since family members are most likely the ones deciding which photos run in the paper. Maybe to them, the photo of grandma before her hair thinned or her face sagged is the way they want to remember her. They can look at that younger portrait and recall the good times, perhaps before she took ill.  But I think there's something positive to be said for running photos of people closer to the age that they pass on, even if it shows their advanced age. It's almost a way of giving a thumbs up to the fact that this person was a survivor and lived a long, long time.   

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 14 (UPI) -- There is pressure for women to appear youthful in entertainment and the media, but there is also a youth bias for obituary photos, U.S. researchers said. The study, published in the Omega-Journal of Death and Dying, found that the number of obituary photographs showing the deceased at a much younger age than when he or she died more than doubled between 1967 and 1997. Women were more than twice as likely as men to have an obituary photo from when they were much younger.

Study co-author Keith Anderson of Ohio State University in Columbus said that in 1967, about 17 percent of the obituary photographs surveyed in the The Plain Dealer, a daily newspaper in Cleveland, were age-inappropriate -- the photos of the deceased were at least 15 years younger than when they died. However, by 1997, the number had increased to 36 percent.

"Obituaries and their photographs are one reflection of our society at a particular moment in time," Anderson said in a statement. "In this case, we can get hints about our views on aging and appearance from the photographs chosen for obituaries. Our findings suggest that we were less accepting of aging in the 1990s than we were back in the 60s."

Elizabeth and John Edwards.

The Elizabeth Edwards media tour continues. Today, NBC's Today show. Tomorrow, Edwards is scheduled to be on CNN's Larry King. I know I wrote about this last week, but I still find myself drawn to this story. Here's the latest: 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Edwards says if she had known her husband John was having an affair rather than her initial belief that he'd had just a single betrayal, she would have strongly resisted his running for president again.Edwards said "I do love him" and also said in a nationally broadcast interview that's the reason she has remained with Edwards despite his admitted affair with videographer Reille Hunter.Edwards went on NBC's "Today" show Monday to discuss "Resilience," the book she has written about her battle with incurable breast cancer and her discovery last year that her husband had been involved in an affair with Hunter.Asked at one point if she wrote the book to strike back at her husband, Edwards said she actually had started it well before she learned that Edwards' involvement with Hunter was more than a one-night stand.Edwards said, "I only knew about a single night, a single moment of weakness." She said that if she'd known about a more involved relationship, "I probably would have been more adamant about his not running."

Bristol Palin

If life throws you a curveball, become a spokesperson. Miss California Carrie Prejean wound up advocating in favor of  marriage after her dustup over the gay marriage issue with celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. 

And now, unwed mother Bristol Palin has landed a similar role. According to The Associated Press,  the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been appointed as a Teen Ambassador for The Candie's Foundation.  Bristol will participate in a town hall meeting Wednesday in New York.

She said in a statement that she wants to be a living example of the consequences of teen pregnancy. And, yes, she'll be paid. No word yet, though, on how much.