The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

When I saw a Washington Post  article entitled "The unintended consequences of laws addressing sex between teachers and students," a WTF expression came across my face and I couldn't help but read it. The article was written by former attorney Betsy Karasik and prompted by a recent case where former Montana high school teacher Stacey Dean Rambold was sentenced to just 30 days in jail after he pled guilty to raping then 14-year old Cherice Morales, who committed suicide at the age of 16. After briefly going over the controversial ruling made by Judge G. Todd Baugh, Karasik said this: "...I don't believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized..." Later in the article, she wrote the following: "I've been a 14-year-old girl, and so have all of ...

So, as most people I speak or hang out with regularly know (as well as regular readers of my blog), I get asked if I'm gay about as much as a nymphomaniac moans the word "god". I've tallied at least 25 people whom have asked me that very question in the past year and a half, I'd say, including last Friday. I was talking to a friend of mine about this recently and she relayed a thought unto me which I found to be quite amusing. You see, it seems as if a solid majority of those 25+ people asked that question (or thought it to be true), because I've been witnessed turning women down for sex. I'll get propositioned by a woman I hardly know about once a month. At the end of the night, they're either going home alone or with someone who is not me. So in response to this, my friend said something like, "It's kind of funny. People assume you to be gay because you're too 'moral' to be straight, yet many people think it's immoral to be...