This Seems Kinda Wrong of the Day: The principal of Brookside Elementary in Gastonia, North Carolina, reportedly phoned the mother of a 9-year-old boy last week to tell her that her son had been suspended for "sexual harassment."
His alleged crime? Telling a teacher he thought she was "cute."
"It's not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in a sexual way," Chiquita Lockett
Leave Them Kids Alone of the Day: A lawsuit filed against Cleveland Middle School in Albuquerque alleges that a student was arrested and sent to a juvenile detention facility without due process for "burping audibly" in class.
The 13-year-old's parents were not notified, according to the lawsuit, and he was also suspended for the rest of the school year without bein
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A woman in Afghanistan who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crime of being raped by a relative has been pardoned by Afghan President Hamid Karzai after she agreed to marry her rapist.
The woman, identified only as "Gulnaz," was convicted of adultery after reporting that she had been raped by her cousin's husband. Ac
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Black Friday Shoppers were reportedly unfazed after a man doing some late-night bargain hunting at a Target in South Charleston, WV, collapsed in the store.
Eyewitnesses told WSAZ that Southridge Shopping Center patrons walked around and, in at least one instance, walked over 61-year-old Walter Vance's body as he la
Streisand Effect of the Day: A student at a Prairie Village, KS, high school who tweeted a comment critical of Gov. Sam Brownback was scolded for nearly an hour by her principal after the governor's office called the school to tattle on her.
Sullivan, a Shawnee
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others of the Day: Hint: It's the one with the cover story about how it's completely okay, if not beneficial, to feel unease about future uncertainties, as opposed to, say, riot in the streets until sh*t gets done.
Sadly, this is a fairly
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: In a move to block important changes to the nutritional requirements of school lunches, the GOP-led House of Representatives yesterday voted to pass a bill that eliminates USDA-endorsed anti-childhood-obesity limits to French fries, while maintaining the status of pizza as a "vegetable."
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: That something as simple as a good photograph can increase the likelihood of an abandoned dog being adopted is well documented.
Emily Tanen had witnessed the effects of a professional photoshoot on an unwanted dog's chances first hand during her time at the Manhattan branch of Animal Care and Control of New York
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A Facebook group called "Find a Pox Party in Your Area" has come under fire for encouraging anti-vaccine parents to mail their children's contagious diseases to other parents so they could infect their own children in an effort to build "natural immunit
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Troy Davis, take two?: Texas inmate Hank Skinner was convicted in 1995 of murdering his girlfriend Twila Busby and her two sons on New Year's Eve, 1993, in their home in Pampa. He i
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A "Christ-centered" liberal arts university in Rome, Georgia is asking all 200 of its employees to formally reject homosexuality by signing a "Personal Lifestyle Statement."
Shorter University president Don Dowless said any employee who refuses to sign
Photography Is Not A Crime of the Day: A reporter for the Tennessean alt-weekly Nashville Scene was arrested Friday night at the Occupy Nashville protests on Legislative Plaza, and managed to catch the entire sorry affair on camera.
In the mostly audio-only video, Jonathan Meador can be heard properly i
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: An op-ed by Joe Nocera in today's New York Times reveals that Steven J. Baum, New York's largest "foreclosure mill" firm -- defined by Word Spy as "a law firm that processes foreclosures perfunctorily and without due process" -- held a Halloween party last year that featur
Caught On Camera of the Day: A student at an Ohio high school who beat "the holy living crap" out of a gay classmate inside a classroom was suspended for all of three days.
The 15-year-old victim reportedly chipped a tooth, and has a possible concussion.
According to ABC 6 News, the same bully had left anti-gay comments on Union-Scioto High School's Facebook page tw
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A Brooklyn woman who was struck by a stray bullet says she was unlawfully detained for five days by police officers who claimed she was lying about the incident.
35-year-old Takesha Griffin was allegedly handcuffed to a bench and, later, put in a dirty holding cell at t
