And in the 'icky' section of the news

Weirdness. A couple of years back there was a scandal in our community in that the long term biology teacher at the school I attended turned out to be a paedophile (I don't know if he ever 'did' anything but he did have pictures of minors engaged in sexual acts and just naked on his computer).

At the time it was kind of weird with lost of ickiness. Especially since he was one of my favourite teachers. I was kind of really freaked when I learned - he was one of the BEST teachers at that school and one of my personal favourites, hows that for screwing up good memories? - frazzles the mind just a little. I think there's a closeted instinct in all of us that wants bad people to act like it all the time and have no good points and the universe goes 'ick' whenever we're proven wrong.

Anyway, cutting it short I freaked a little when I learned and surprised a few people.

NOW we have follow up of... details. Among these details is that for several years (most of his time at the school) he concealed hidden cameras in the boys and girls changing rooms and even shared some of the stills on the net. Freaky thing? I'm not freaked here, even though there's a pretty reasonable chance I could be on some of those photos when I was a little kiddie. C'mon, that SHOULD freak me out, right? But it doesn't.

My memory of a great teacher being torn into shreds freaked me more than the idea of a paedophile taking pictures of me as a child while changing them and possibly sharing them on the net. Go figure.

Sometimes I don't understand myself.

And in the "ecstatic jumping up and down linke a drunken crazy person" section of the news

Blair lost.

His little police state proposal failed.

It failed badly.

Even though he dragged poor Brown from Israel (probably insulting Israel, the EU and G8 in the process - wow, that took some doing) he still lost.

Not only did he loose, he lost by more votes than many of his bills have passed by.

I am so very happy about this, I'm going to celebrate for an age.

the bill in question was Blair's terrorism bill. It had proposals for clamping down on religious hate speach and preventing people 'glorifying terrorism' (whatever THAT means) but the objectionable part of it was the right of police to detain people for 90 days. No trial. No accountability. No evidence. No crime. No appeal. No review. No compensation. 90 days. 3 months of your life, gone and nothing you can do.