I hope everyone enjoyed spring break and survived mid-terms.

Before I get into the new ridiculous stories I found, I want to go back and hit a few I missed out on while I was catching up on my Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

In early February, the first TEA Party convention was in Nashville. I am so sorry I had to miss it, but I suppose I can try to make the next one. Sarah Palin, America’s second would-be neighbor, spoke at the convention and made a fool of herself.

I understand President Obama has become a little ridiculous with his teleprompter dependency, like the one he brought to speak to a school classroom, but Palin just went over the edge. I suppose she was afraid to forget her shopping list so she wrote it on her hand. Oh wait, that wasn’t her shopping list, it was her speaking notes. Seriously?

Though I didn’t see it anywhere during her initial speech when she referred to her note hand, she made a very obvious glance at it during an interview afterward.

You know that sneak you tried to pull in middle school when you didn’t know the answer and the teacher always busted you? It was that exact thing.

How in the world is this person so admired when she can’t even think to take a piece of paper with her to a lectern? Ridiculous.

So Sarah, next time you make a joke about Barack, refer to your notes on how you can do better. I just hope they’re not written on your hand.

And I guess the Republicans were just on a roll while I was away, but they’re the stars in this story, too.

After a heavy load of Obama bashing when it comes to what they call his “elitist behavior” and spending so much time in exotic places, The Republican National Committee held its annual meeting in Hawaii.

John Oliver from “The Daily Show” did such a great job of satirizing the meeting where they really dug themselves in a hole. But don’t worry, Michael Steele, RNC chairman clarified when he said, “This is not a vacation.”

When someone gripes about spending too much money, do they usually follow it up with an island vacation?

When someone complains about how universal health care is the worst thing for our country, do they go to a place that has been successfully using it for 40 years only to say what a failure it is? Well, the RNC does.

But the simple act of having their meeting in Hawaii wasn’t enough to make them look stupid. They said a lot of great things as well. I’ll give you just a few of my favorites.

As Oliver put it, “When Obama comes to Hawaii, its because hes out of touch and elitist. When republicans come to Hawaii its because

…” The unnamed woman he was interviewing had no response.

Another attendee said the change has to start with fiscal responsibility. “The average American is having a real tough time,” said another man, as he’s hanging out in Hawaii.

Not to mention the private submarine they got to play on.

Ridiculous. You can watch the clip for yourself on “The Daily Show’s” Web site www.thedailyshow.com/videos. It’s under the title RNC Meeting in Hawaii.

Other than a few political figures gaffing worse than Joe Biden lately, I found a few short stories I just couldn’t help but share.

Straight from the AP, “Authorities believe a Washington [50-year-old Roy Messenger] was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a car crash.”

According to the article from The Seattle Times’ Web site, authorities believed Messenger was not seriously injured from the crash.

“[Grays Harbor County sheriff’s Deputy Dave] Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn’t see the live wire. The urine stream likely served as a conductor, allowing the electricity to reach his body.”

I thought “hand-o-prompters,” hypocritical vacations and death by urinating electrocution was ridiculous until I saw this simple story about a glaring first amendment rights violation.

“A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student to attend with her girlfriend,” reported CNN.com.

Not that Mississippi needs any more discrimination in their history, but this is just a little too ridiculous for the 21st century.

According to the article, “At the center of the lawsuit is a memorandum from the school to students, dated February 5, which states that prom dates must be of the opposite sex.”

“In a statement released Wednesday, the county’s board of education said that, ‘Due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events, the Itawamba County School District has decided to not host a prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School this year,’” the article states.

Wow. I just couldn’t believe it. When I was in high school, not that long ago, in the South, I went with two friends, of the same sex. No one thought anything of it, and we had a prom.

We weren’t the only group of girls with “dates” who weren’t of the opposite sex. How long is it going to take to recognize that we are all different and it’s OK? I guess Mississippi just likes to take its time on these things.

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