Yaaay! Yay! Yay! Yay!

Babies are good news!

Congratulations, Keef! Best of luck to you and yours! Merry Christmas!

Turns out she's not. Apparently her period was just late, and she eventually told her mother (but told Britney first, which made her mother so mad!) and her mother made her fly home to see a doctor in LA because if they were spotted seeing a doctor in L.A. there would be a huge scandal. K-Fed got asked for advice as well, which seems odd except that he knows a lot about baby-making so maybe it makes sense.

Why she didn't just go pee on a stick before freaking out and involving her entire family, ex-brother-in-law, and the tabs is a little odd although it dovetails nicely with the other thread on sex education in high school. Clearly even with all the MTV and internet influence, teenagers still don't know shit about how their bodies work.

Great tune, love it.

I did that for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day one year, it was fabulous. I made a strata in the afternoon for my solo brunch the next day. I bought filet mignon and made myself a gorgeously rare steak poivre with asparagus and garlic mashed potatoes. I drank some nice red wine. I had a small bottle of champagne (one of those two-hit bottles) to toast midnight.

The next day I got up around 10ish and put the strata in the oven (ham, goat cheese, and artichoke hearts). I had another two-hit bottle of champagne and some orange juice. I ate my delicious strata (and helped myself to seconds and thirds!) and drank mimosas all through the late morning and early afternoon, and watched "The Mists of Avalon" on TV, the one with Julianna Marguiles as Morgaine.

You couldn't beat it with a stick. It was a lot more enjoyable than the usual 'amateur night' that passes for New Years Eve around here.

I hope we all know how she got pregnant.

This is nothing to celebrate or excuse or otherwise give a pass to. I've never been a huge fan of the "celebrities need to be pure FOR THE CHIIIIIILDREN!" mantra, but without consequences, without disapproval, and without some indication that getting your stupid ass knocked up at *16* is a BAD THING TO DO, how many tweener girls are going to think somewhere in their little pigtailed still-playing-with-Cabbage-Patch-Dolls heads "well *she* did it and it's not that bad"?

Of course what they don't realize (since they're only 11 or 12) is that her family has insane amounts of money and child care and health care and private tutors and all that good stuff. *That* is the problem -- young girls will see no shame and no hardship for this girl (I mean really, did any of us expect her to go to college anyway?), and then after nine months will see the million-dollar photo shoot of the pretty young mama and her adorable wee babbie in People magazine and will not be able to translate that into real life, where there are in fact dire consequences for teen pregnancy.

What a family. I see also that Lynne Spears book on parenting has been indefinitely pulled from its scheduled publishing date. Jeebus.

Plus, the guy needs to be identified IMMEDIATELY.

Its her boyfriend, Casey Aldridge. His name is all over the news as well, and if anyone is interested, he has *not* broken any laws in either Mississippi or California. Mississippi's aoc is sixteen, and California has a Romeo & Juliet clause that allows a three year gap as long as the younger person is sixteen or older. Statutory rape is not an issue here.

I was just looking these up online, and both states have either listed the age of consent as 16 (MI) or have a Romeo & Juliet clause that allows for an age gap of three years if the younger party is 16 or younger (CA) which means that Aldridge is not guilty in either state, even though he is over 18 (by one year).

I didn't look at Louisiana, I thought they were from Mississippi?

As to the clown calling him a "predator" can you please get some perspective? Overstating your case is not going to help you win any arguments, and in fact it will drive more sympathy to this idiot. This is like a college freshman sleeping with his girlfriend who is a junior in high school. Dumb and irresponsible to be sure, but hardly predatory.

So if you get pregnant you are a whore?

Not anymore. This day and age you're just pretty f-ing dumb.

Has the teacher sued the families for defamation/libel? That's the first thing I would do. If you think you're going to destroy my life you'd better watch out because I will *bury* you.

It's already 11:49 am. Benazir Bhutto was murdered almost four hours ago and a year's worth of naked people is still the headline...