The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

A story just surfaced which reported that despite hot temperatures outside and lacking air conditioning inside, the interim principal at Tottenville High School in Staten Island has handed out detentions to 200 students for violating the new dress code - 90% of whom were female. The new dress code prohibits the wearing of tank tops, low-cut shirts, and shorts that don't reach fingertip length. Especially due to the "sweltering" classrooms, many students have continually protested against the new dress code by wearing tank tops, shorts, and the like. As one senior at the school said, "That's what girls wear when it's hot out. It's unfair to them." Another student said, "Tottenville should just be an all boys school considering this dress code is only affecting the girls." Yet another commented that it was "humiliating to be pulled aside like an object." Due to the growing controversy, school district officials released a ...

That's right. Chicago Bears wide receiver, Earl Bennett, has been warned by the NFL that if he wears his orange shoes from here on out, he'll be fined at least $15,000 by the league and removed from the game he's playing in and not allowed back in until he's changed shoes. Two words - who cares? There. I've said my bit. Players get fined for helmet-to-helmet hits, perhaps some form of taunting, missing team practice, speaking out against the referees, etc. Now let's add orange-colored shoes to the mix. If this were a multiple-choice exam, I'd be asking, "Which one of these does not belong?" Helmet-to-helmet hits, right? This is when I gave the ol' juvenile yank-yank motion. Yank-yank. There we go. Much better... http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/NFL-to-Earl-Bennett-You-wear-orange-shoes-you-?urn=nfl-wp12127