By Jess Nobert | Senior Staff Writer

“Hopey changey stuff.” That’s about all Sarah Palin has going for her these days. At her last few public appearances I’ve seen coverage of, she’s made reference to her play on words to more or less attack Barack Obama’s campaign platform. And everything I’ve seen her campaign for, aside for the teleprompter, has been a joke. Really Sarah, no more taxes? What about roads and schools? And all those other socialist things we have like social security and medicaid? Surely you don’t want to get rid of those things, too.

But enough about Sarah Palin, lets move to another person who shouldn’t get much press time. A friend told me about this story and I could not help but cover it here. A man who was incredibly intoxicated thought it would be a great idea to stop on the side of the road to give an opossum mouth-to-mouth.

Well here’s the thing, so what if the guy was tanked, he got busted resuscitating a dead animal on the side of the road. Either way, here comes the best part: it was in the middle of the afternoon in a Pennsylvania township. Thank you Donald Wolfe, 55, of Brookville, for one of the greatest laughs of the week. And thank you to the AP for giving me the facts to such a great story.

Speaking of ridiculous, apparently Jesse James’ lover didn’t know he was still with now estranged wife Sandra Bullock. According to a story from the New York Post, “Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee realized that her boyfriend, Jesse James, was still with his wife, Sandra Bullock, only after spotting the couple together at the Academy Awards, according to the home wrecker’s dad.” And that last part is definitely from them, not from me.

According to McGee’s father, they were two single people dating; he didn’t know James and Bullock were still together. And now, both women are hiding out. Ridiculous. Next time you want to hook up with someone else James, leave your wife first.
Keeping with the celeb-cheating theme, Tiger Woods’ wife Elin will not be at the Master’s tournament according to USA Today. She will be at home, in Sweden, spending time with family and friends. Don’t worry; these stories are making local news here (in Sweden), too.

But aside from celebrity gossip, I did find one serious story this week. It is something that’s been going on for over a year, which I’ve found stories for, and I just find it so ridiculous. There are young people out there who are committing suicide because they are being bullied at school. I could not believe it.

I know I’m not that old, and clearly there haven’t been any major developments in the art of bullying. We’re likely all victims of it to one degree or another during our younger years, and honestly, many of us are now the ones doing it ourselves whether we think of it that way or not.

The stories I found were all about minors. People who weren’t only just under 18, but at least one mainstream victim was under 10. What could kids possibly be saying to each other these days to make them want to kill themselves? The ages of the four kids I read about ranged from 9 to 17 years old. I don’t know about you, but at such an age of 9, I didn’t even honestly know what it meant to be hanged much less think of how to do it myself.

In all of the pop culture jokes I make, and all of the celebrity gossip I write about, not many stories ring so ridiculous as children taking their own lives based on what other children have been saying to them. We need to do something about this. Start telling our kids, our friend’s kids, nieces and nephews, whoever, that it’s not that bad. Teach them some self-respect and tell them they are better than the words other kids say to them. This is one ridiculous story I never want to have to write about again.

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