Beauties, Beasts, and Tramp Stamps

Crazy week for EduClaytion as the semester winds down, research papers are flying in, finals are on the way, and my dog pulled a Tom Brady by tearing his CCL (the canine equivalent of an ACL/knee ligament).  So here’s your 60 second recap of the week’s keen stories.

Barbie turned 50 and is getting tatoos.  Hard to believe that Ken’s girl signed up for a tramp stamp.

Speaking of beauty queens, Miss California Carrie Prejean went up against internet celeb Perez Hilton during the Miss America pageant.  Prejean says she lost the crown because she had the nerve to hold a personal belief on gay marriage.  Hilton aired a scathing video reply.  Miss California won’t be wearing a shiny tiara but loves the massive exposure the controversy is giving her.  Saturday Night Live should be interesting.

Did you catch President Obama’s, ahem, press conference the other night?  I haven’t seen coverage that weak since the San Francisco 49ers slaughtered the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX.  As Dennis Miller said, it’s a scary world when Miss California gets tougher questions that the president.

Speaking of beautiful people, how many of them work for Barrack Obama?  According to People magazine, at least one.  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was picked for one of the magazine’s most beautiful humans in the world.  That’s not a mistake.  The tax-evading former member of the Federal Reserve that helped create this whole economic mess in the first place also happens to have a brother who works for the magazine, but I ain’t one to gossip so you didn’t hear it from me.  I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that I want on next year’s list.

Geithner continues to work through a tough economy.  Many corporations continue to change their ways.  Even American Idol eliminated their powerful Idol Give Back this season.  The producers felt that now is not the best time to ask people for money.