The purveyors of porn have got to be chuffed after watching Memphis school kids hump (en masse) both the floor and each other during Mitchell High School’s “talent show” this month. Yep, it doesn’t look as if sellers of smut are going to be taking an additional night job to pay bills anytime soon because they have formally tapped the teenage market. At least in Memphis they have. Good job, Memphis. And these kids weren’t the least bit shy about their peccadilloes either, folks. This crop of postmodern punks is proud of their penchants; they have been Porn Again, and they’re unashamed. They posted their vomit on YouTube under the moniker “Mitchell High School Memphis . . . Rape Dat Ho.” Rape that whore? Wow. This cultural death knell wasn’t performed and filmed in some dark alley or private basement but at a government-funded public school. And it was executed in the face of certain spineless, numb nut, morally vacuous teachers and administrators, to boot. Yes, the kids bumped uglies, simulated oral sex acts and rape while some barely teen girls danced so provocatively they made Jenna Jameson look like a stocky, lazy-eyed seamstress with arthritis and a bum hip, all while the staff watched.Read On

No one asked you if you wanted one. No one told you when you got one. Even then they don’t tell you what yours is. No, you have to ask—and pay—to look at your credit score. Yet that three-digit number plays a serious role in your finances, your career—indeed, your life.  Fair Isaac Corporation was founded in 1956 by Bill Fair and Earl Isaac, who developed computer systems and software that predict outcome. The company developed and still tightly controls the technology that weighs different factors found in a person’s credit report. The result is a three-digit number ranging from 150 to 934, also known as a FICO score, that grades risk and tells a lender the statistical chances of getting repaid. Fair Isaac licenses its highly secret technology to credit reporting agencies (CRAs). The CRAs then use that software and add their own programs and statistical data to produce customized credit scores under names like Beacon, Empirica, and Scorecard.  The more I learn about this matter of credit scoring the more I see that it is a flawed system. Credit scoring is not necessary, it is unfair, and it represents a conflict of interest. Credit Scoring: A Flawed System

A twirling mass of white lace surrounded a rough wooden cross as a troupe of young women danced in a circle looking like porcelain dolls come to life. Then Randy Wilson and Kevin Moore hoisted swords in the air and a ballroom full of 149 fathers and daughters walked beneath them toward the cross and laid white roses at its base. The swords symbolized the fathers' commitment to battle for their daughters and the roses symbolized the daughters' commitment to God to remain pure. Then Wilson announced, "Let the ball begin." This is the 10th anniversary of the Father-Daughter Purity Ball, one of the most successful - and controversial - ideas to come out of Colorado Springs' conservative Christian community. Fathers at the purity ball, held at The Broadmoor on Friday night, pledge not only to live purely, but to be the authority and protector of their daughters' purity. The idea for the ball started with the Wilsons, a self-described "little homeschool family in Briargate." When the oldest of Randy Wilson's five daughters turned 13, he went in search of a watershed event to celebrate her transition into womanhood, as well as his commitment as a father to stand by her. He couldn't find one. "We didn't see a place to honor the father-daughter relationship in our culture, so we created a place," said his wife, Lisa Wilson. A commitment to purity