Thursday Open Thread

Welcome to your Thursday open thread. I have to look at the bright side. Today can’t be any stupider than yesterday, can it? Please tell me we hit peak stupid.

More people need to do this – Historian Doug Brinkley calls for NBC to fire Donald Trump.

Moments ago on CNN, acclaimed historian and author Douglas Brinkley pinned the blame for the reemergence of birtherism on NBC Entertainment for giving real estate mogul Donald Trump a primetime platform. Brinkley called on NBC to immediately drop Trump’s show, The Apprentice, from its lineup. If NBC decides to keep Trump on the air, Brinkley called on corporate sponsors to pull their ads or face a massive consumer boycotts:

We don’t have to blame “the media” for dealing with this issue. We have to blame NBC Entertainment. They need to dump Trump from his primetime news show. He’s a poison toad on the airwaves. What corporate sponsor is going to be buying ad time for Donald Trump’s show. Any company that goes into Trump and is willing to pay is going to find consumer boycott like they’ve never seen before. If you are going to do what Trump did and go after the President of the United States in such a grotesque and disingenuous way you better cough up the goods. Today the Obama administration has shown what a charlatan Donald Trump really is.

It’s already dodgy that NBC is giving free airtime to someone publicly contemplating running for president. Last week Trump even asked his contestants if he should run. I hope a boycott catches on. We’ve already seen it can be effective – just look at the success of Stop Beck.

I read a story last month about a teacher that was fired from her job when it was revealed that she used to be a porn star. Now there’s another teacher under fire because she writes erotica.

A series of racy romance novels by an author named Judy Mays are a little too racy for some parents in our area, especially now that they have discovered the woman known as Judy Mays is teaching their children.

Many parents might admire a high school English teacher who is also a published author, but some parents in Snyder County said what their children’s teacher is writing about in her spare time might be a little too hot to handle.

Parents said Judy Buranich has been an English teacher at Midd West High School for nearly 25 years, but recently they found out  she is a published author  and writes under the pen name Judy Mays.

Her book is an erotic romance novel and some parents said they are not happy with the book’s content.

Parent Wendy Apple has a son in 10th grade at Midd West High School in Middleburg. His English teacher’s name is Judy Buranich. Apple said she recently found out that after school Buranich has a second job; she writes erotic romance novels.

Apparently talking about sex means you’re unsuitable to be around children. The books are meant for people over 18, what’s the big deal here? I’m sure the horror of the parents is that teenagers might discover erotica exists.