ID Teen Threatens School Shooting When Cheerleaders Refuse to Send Nude Selfies

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Saturday October 10, 2015 · 9:01 AM PDT

2015/10/10 · 09:01

[This post was originally published on the Cybertraps Blog.]

A confluence of some of the most disturbing trends in American society led to the lockdown Wednesday of Highland High School in Pocatello, Idaho.

In the wee hours of the morning on October 7, an unnamed 15-year-old male had a Facebook Messenger exchange with another person, age and gender unknown. A screenshot of a portion of the conversation was obtained by local media and offers a chilling insight of just how established the script for school shootings has become.

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Thursday October 01, 2015 · 8:41 AM PDT

2015/10/01 · 08:41

[This post originally appeared on The Cybertraps Blog.]

A couple of days ago, the Times of London published an op-ed by an anonymous female former teacher entitled "I Had an Affair with My 17-year-old Student." The article, unfortunately, is behind the paper's paywall, so it will only be accessible to those readers with a Times subscription or those who are willing to sign up for an inexpensive trial run. However, since the article so perfectly encapsules the issues about which I've written in Cybertraps for Educators and more recently here on this blog, I am going to summarize the salient points. I think the article should be handed out to every teaching certificate student, every graduate, and every practicing teacher -- it is perfectly illustrative of the unique challenges (or cybertraps) that teachers face in the digital era.

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Sunday September 20, 2015 · 6:05 PM PDT

2015/09/20 · 18:05

[This post originally appeared on The Cybertraps Blog.]

A few months ago, a photo appeared on Twitter of two women, a medium-build blond and a short brunette.

The blond woman on the left in the photo is an adult webcam model who goes (or went) by the screen name MelodyXXXTune; the photo was taken as part of the promotion for her March 25 appearance on ItsCleoLive.com, a wildly NSFW Web site and live cam show.

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Public Officials Cannot Use "Religious Freedom" to Justify Nonfeasance

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Tuesday September 01, 2015 · 8:51 AM PDT

2015/09/01 · 08:51

[Note: This was originally published on my blog, "The Cybertraps Blog"]

In a brief, one-sentence order, the United States Supreme Court rejected a request by a Kentucky county clerk to stay a U.S. District Court ruling that ordered her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. In the months following the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Rowan County clerk Kim Davis has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples -- and in fact, has stopped issuing marriage licenses altogether. Davis, an Apostolic Christian, does not believe same-sex couples have a right to be married, and argues that forcing her to do her job would violate her "religious liberties."

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 10:58 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 10:58

As loath as I am to further ridiculous story lines, this is just too good to pass up. According to a post by AmericaBlog's John Aravosis, the McCain campaign has dropped some serious coin on beauty products.

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 6:27 PM PDT

2008/09/23 · 18:27

The intensity with which Secretary Paulson and the Bush administration are pushing the $700 billion (read $1 trillion+) bank bailout bill is stunning. But even more staggering than the reckless speed is the open disdain for the U.S. Constitution.

kos pointed out in a mid-day post that the "'Crisis bill' was months in the making." According to Bush administration spokesman Tony Fratto, the bulk of the Paulson proposal was drafted over a series of months as a "contingency." One of the key contingencies, of course, is the language that makes the actions of the Secretary of the Treasury UNREVIEWABLE by the federal courts.

This sounds familiar: In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act -- all 342 pages -- was introduced in Congress just 3 weeks after the September 11 attacks and passed just over three weeks later. Few pieces of legislation can compete with the constitutional damage of the PATRIOT Act, but the Paulson bailout proposal gives it a shot.

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Tuesday October 18, 2005 · 8:14 PM PDT

2005/10/18 · 20:14

One of the things that constantly amazes me is how much cross-pollination there is in D.C., which is why it's obviously such a fertile field for someone like special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

Here's one example: in an article yesterday about the focus on Cheney's office, there was a list of people who have been interviewed by Fitzgerald. On that list is the name of Catherine Martin, who some will recognize as the wife of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, who was appointed recently to replace Michael Powell (himself the son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell).

There is apparently no suggestion that Mrs. Martin was a participant in the conspiracy to disclose Valerie Plame's name, but it does offer an interesting illustration of how a single careless match can start a serious Capital Hill brushfire.

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