Dunno, I tend to think that the bumbling niavete is attributed to this teacher (0.00 / 0)

rather than predatory exhibitionism is not without its sexist undercurrent. It's incredibly hard for me to believe that she "accidentally" inserted an erotic photo of herself into an end of the year montage for 11 year olds. How does that happen, realistically? Which is not to say the reaction was any less exploitative or effed up, just to say that Lance Mannion's rush to attribute guilelessness to this woman reads to me as objectionable in its own right.  

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by: sb @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 11:53:55 AM UTC

Unless she's nuts ... (0.00 / 0)

Who wants to lose their job in this economy? I hear you, and we agree more often than not as far as I've seen, but I don't buy someone taking that kind of risk on purpose.

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by: Natasha Chart @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 12:01:41 PM UTC

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If you want to posit "predatory exhibitionism" (0.00 / 0)

You'll need to suggest a motive. Intentionally putting such pictures on a CD sent to parents of the children (the presumed targets of your alleged "crime"), then calling around trying to get them back does not seem like the actions of a "predator".

Accidentally inserting pictures is relatively easy with digital pictures, which tend to give numerical filenames.


"It sounds wrong...
     ...but its right."

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by: SpitBall @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 15:29:12 PM UTC

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Since objectivity in journalism is a red herring, and the way the days stories are told is everything to any competent Editor, (0.00 / 0)

Then I have to say "No News" is good news.

Juxtaposing for example Canada's minority Conservative government (and their enablers* the Liberal Party of Canada) with the (courageous exciting exhilarating informative poetic peaceful . . .) actions of Greenpeace in Italy made my morning!

*There's that alcoholics metaphor again, with drunk on selling out to the corporations Conservative minority government (they reduced taxes on Canada's world famously rich and profitable banks to a marginal rate of 15% from the old level of 24%, which was already lower than the US's) is made possible only by repeated, "thats OK they don't mean it really," 'votes of confidence' by the Michael Ignatieff lead Liberals.

Yes Canada is in very very sorry shape right now. But yes brave, insightful, clever and dedicated activists are bringing the message of zero carbon right into the closed meetings of the worlds powerful.

Yay.

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The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky

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by: HousesofProgress @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 13:42:31 PM UTC

Good for Greenpeace! (0.00 / 0)

And jeers to both the asshole who sent the video of the teacher to the local television station, and to the station for broadcasting it.  What asses.

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by: Michael Kwiatkowski @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 14:28:42 PM UTC

Yeah, but there's REALLY bad news, too: (0.00 / 0)

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If this doesn't make you crazy, you're already crazy.

I guess.
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by: cosanostradamus @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 14:38:30 PM UTC

had to look twice (0.00 / 0)

I just had to comment on the godsmack/naruto video, very good find....

anyway, thanks for the finds and updates on g-sachs and g-8.... wonder how things are shaping up for Pittsburgh g-20

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by: carlosinhp @ Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 14:57:42 PM UTC