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?
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When Sarah meets Hillary
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WOULDN'T YOU love to be close enough to eavesdrop if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ever agrees to have a cup of coffee with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin? One can only imagine that their java summit might go something like this:
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'Tough Love' hosts dish the dating advice
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Jenice Armstrong; I think of myself as pretty frank, but there are certain opinions people are better off keeping to themselves, like when it comes to romance.
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Jenice Armstrong: Remember the Miss Black America pageant? Organizers want to bring it back. Should they? Or has the pageant outlived its purpose?
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AIDS threat still raging
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LIKE THE TITLE character in "Precious," the new Lee Daniels' film, this 14-year-old Philadelphia girl had been raped by a relative and infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Michelle's family tree is multi-hued
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Jenice Armstrong: First lady Michelle Obama' has white cousins? Oh, my gosh! Can you believe it? Well, yeah. Just about every black American I know has white relatives.
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Jenice Armstrong: It was kind of like being at a Tupperware party but instead of the focus being on plastic containers, the conversation centered on sex.
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Michelle's dating tips
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FIRST LADY Michelle Obama graces the cover of the December issue of Glamour. What's even more interesting is that in the accompanying article, she gives dating advice. Given that all the single women I know who are searching for their own version of Barack Obama, her advice is worth paying attention to.
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This World Series can divide households
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Can't we all just get along? Not if one of us is from Philly and the other's from New York, with the Phils and Yankees squaring off tonight. Jenice Armstrong talks about how her house has been divided, and Stu Bykofsky, a Philly institution who grew up in the Bronx, has practically become a house divided against itself. Do you have New York friends, or a Yankees fan at home?
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