Archive for December, 2006

This tiny minded indvidual and his shyster legal counsel contend that he was unfairly teminated for participating in internet sex chat rooms at work because of his internet addiction. I wonder if I can claim leaving work early to play golf as an addiction. Think of the possibilities. Anyway, on to the story:

Virtually Addicted

A lawsuit against IBM is reviving debate over whether Web overuse may be classified as an addiction. The answer will have big implications for business

by Catherine Holahan

By his own admission, James Pacenza was spending too much time in Internet chat rooms, in some of them discussing sex. He goes so far as to call his interest in inappropriate Web sites a form of addiction that stems from the posttraumatic stress disorder he’s suffered since returning from Vietnam. Whatever it’s called, Pacenza’s chat-room habit cost him his job.

After 19 years at IBM’s East Fishkill plant, Pacenza was fired in May, 2003, after a fellow employee noticed discussion of a sex act on a chat room open on Pacenza’s computer. IBM (IBM) maintains that logging onto the Web site was a violation of its business conduct guidelines and a misuse of company property—and that it was well within its rights to terminate Pacenza’s employment.

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I’m glad I never went to this school, I would have needed a Mickey’s Big Mouth bottle.

Students Told To Urinate In Bottle

Some Call Bathroom Escort Policy Too Harsh

SALISBURY, Md. — School officials are deciding the fate of a Maryland teacher at Salisbury Middle School who instructed three boys who needed a bathroom break to urinate into a soda bottle.

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I just don’t get the point of this. Must be a Texas thing. Kinda like the money story that HankJ posted.

Lawmaker aims to allow the blind to hunt

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas lawmaker is aiming to allow the blind to hunt. Texas State Representative Edmund Kuempel has introduced a measure that would allow blind people to hunt any game that sighted people can currently pursue.

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Yeah, yeah, I know it’s old news by now, but I wanted to use this title. It’s good to see Ms Spears is learning that discretion is sometimes the better part of valor.

Britney’s Mea Culpa: She’s Ready For Undies
Star Says Maybe She Went Too Far

NEW YORK — Britney Spears admits that showing the world she wasn’t wearing panties several times might not have been such a good idea after all.

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No word on whether she was actually trying to light them. It’s also rumored that she asked the passenger next to her to pull her finger.

Woman Under Fire After In-Flight Flatulence
Plane Has Emergency Landing In Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — What do you do if you pass embarrassing gas on an airplane? One woman found out what not to do.

A Nashville International Airport spokeswoman said an American Airlines plane bound for Texas had to make an emergency landing Monday morning in Nashville after matches were lit in flight.

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