When Allena Ward admitted to sexual misconduct with minors last September, I never thought the former Laurens County, South Carolina, middle school teacher would actually get 6 years in the big house. She took the adult out of adultery by meeting three 14 year old and two 15 year old students at restaurants, motels and school to do various deeds.

Although Solicitor Jerry Peace from the Eighth Circuit court believes Ward will serve 85 percent of the six-year term, she’ll probably be out in a year and a half; after all she’s the daughter of a minister, married, and holds the respected position as a middle school teacher at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, SC….whoops, done got fir’d (source).

What I don’t get is, if she was in an unhappy marriage and needed a little “extra-curricular studies,” right, was she just too lazy to embark in the time-honored tradition of adulthood adultery? To cuckold is one thing, but how good of a time are you going to have with a 14-year-old? Her “victims” apparently thought the same thing.

From WLTX:

“The court also heard written statements from her victims. They describe confusion on their part about why she wanted sex from them. Police began investigating Ward after a note containing inappropriate messages was given to school officials on February 22. According to investigators, the note was passed during class to one of the boys, then thrown in the trash.”

Check out her hand-written journal entries after the jump - it’s on some real Live Journal Epic status. (more…)

Dude got high. Way high.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the explorer from New Zealand who achieved worldwide fame in 1953 for being the first person (along with his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay) in recorded history to ascend the summit top of Mt. Everest, succumbed to heart failure earlier today. He was 88 years old.

Sir Edmund Hillary was a beekeeper, philanthropist, author, and was way cooler than Hillary Clinton and her (most likely) carefully orchestrated “Oprah moment.”

(This photo was taken by Edmund Hillary at the top of the world, since his companion, Tenzing Norgay did not know how to operate a camera.)

Oh those crazy politicians… lets see what they’re up to on the first enstallment of This is Why I Don’t Talk Politics.

It was quoted last week that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was acting like a man to try to extend herself to the male population. Ever since then, I’ve been slightly more freaked out than normal watching the news… but thats not even close to how violated I feel now.

Cast in resin and bearing ample cleavage, a bust of the New York Democrat was unveiled this week at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan.

Calling his creation “The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton: The First Woman President of the United States,” artist Daniel Edwards said he wanted to depict the 58-year-old Clinton “with her head held high, a youthful spirit and a face matured by wisdom.”

Indeed, while the former first lady’s face is shown with a few wrinkles, Edwards cast her in a low-cut floral dress that reveals her shoulders and chest.

“Her cleavage is on display, prominently portraying sexual power which some people still consider too threatening,” Edwards said.

I feel abused just reading that lil’ clip. End rant….

In unrelated news, I’ve been wearing the same pair of shorts over a week, and noone here @ the Synth has even noticed… sweet.