American Newsreel

A Wisconsin clown who worked children’s parties may also be a sexual predator: Not a desirable situation.

Reports television news channel 4 in Milwaukee:

He works as a clown, but what he’s accused of isn’t funny at all.

Ron Schroeder is in jail, accused of sexually assaulting a woman and taking nude pictures of her.

He’s better known as “Silly The Clown,” and he’s performed at many children’s parties.

Schroeder has a troubled history; something most parents didn’t know when they hired him for birthday parties. (more…)

Teenagers are expected to do outrageous things. It’s part of the ritual. But a new fad of sending nude pix of themselves over the Internet?

Reports Jan Jarvis of The Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram:

Most teenagers use Web sites to chat, instant message and disclose their most personal thoughts through blogs. But many do so without a second thought about who might see what they say.

Some don’t even hesitate to send nude pictures of themselves over the Internet.

Though they may be emboldened by technology, the reasons for such behavior have been consistent through generations, experts say. (more…)

The National Ledger, a sort of online tabloid, has declared 2006 “The Year of the Bad Girl.”

Reports the Ledger:

There are always the usual suspects surrounding the Hollywood party girls. There were nude flashes, DUI busts, drug accusations and drug admissions from the jet set gals that treat Hollywood as their own personal playground all year long.

Business as usual in Los Angeles.

But somewhere along the way, last year was no longer ‘normal’ for Hollywood and 2006 became the year of the bad girl. Even the beauty queens chimed in. Tara Conner is still Miss USA but she was slammed with charges of drug abuse and a sex scandal that even included Miss Teen USA Katie Blair.

Reminds us of an old saying: “When she was good, she was very, very good. When she was bad, she was even better.”

Most people expected Donald Trump to fire Tara Conner, the wild child Miss USA, Tuesday but he gave her a second chance.

Which, of course, puts The Donald in a good light as a compassionate man.

And makes us wonder if the whole damn thing was a setup.

On top of the news that Miss USA Tara Conner is about to lose her crown for excessive partying, drinking and bed-hopping comes additional revelations that Miss TeenUSA, 18-year-old Katie Blair (right) has been out doing pretty much the same thing.

Blair, from Billings, MT, was spotted chugging shots, dancing on the couch and cuddling up to dirty old men (young and old) at a Manhattan night club. Turns out she shared the swanky Trumpa Plaza digs with the 20-year-old Conner and other beauty pageant winners.

Now Donald Trump, who owns all these pageants, wants the girls to clean up their act.

When the Donald wants someone to clean up their act, it must be pretty dirty. Trump is hardly what any of us would call a paragon of virtue and family values and the idea that he might find something offensive means it must be pretty damn bad.

Or incredibly hypocritical.

Tara Conner (right), the 20-year-old Kentuckian who became Miss USA, is about to get the boot because she came to New York and went wild, drinking in bars and having a grand old time in the Big Apple.

We’re trying to grasp the hypocrisy of this. It’s OK for the young girl to put on a skimpy bikini and strut sex appeal all over the stage but God forbid that she go out on the town and have a little fun.

This gets even funnier when you realize the Miss USA franchise is owned by New York real estate speculator Donald Trump, who has all the moral virtue of a junkyard dog.

Trump has scheduled a press conference Tuesday to announce Conner’s fate but news organizations are already reporting that Miss USA officials have called runner-up Tamiko Nash, Miss California, and told her to get ready to take over the crown.

Beauty pageants are, by nature, exercises in hyprocrisy, promoting manufactured sex appeal for television audiences. Firing a beauty queen because she made a human mistake only carries that hyprocrisy to new heights. In an era when pro sports figures get multiple chances for drug abuse or breaking the law, it is ridiculous to fire a 20-year-old kid for acting like one.

You can call the Hooters restaurant chain many things (and opponents of the eatery built on sex appeal have called the company names) but the one tag that fits most appropriately is “successful.”

Reports The Associated Press:

Retired from a long career in medical sales, Roger Toy can be found most days doing the daily crossword puzzle at a local Hooters, the restaurant chain known for its scantily clad waitresses and, oh yes, buffalo wings.

At the restaurant where Toy hangs out, a trio of telecommunications managers dine as often as three times a day.

“The girls are really the reason,” says Toy, 54, who has never been married. “If you come up here a lot, you get to know them. I like coming here because everybody knows me.”

These “girls” are the Hooters Girls, a cadre of more than 17,000 women who work at the Atlanta-based chain’s 438 restaurants across the United States and in 20 countries. Besides their revealing attire of low-cut, tight tank tops and short orange shorts circa the 1980s, these waitresses are known for playful banter and friendly smiles.

“It’s the girls. The girls are what we’re all about,” says Coby Brooks, the company’s president and chief executive officer. “Although we have great food.”

Having a brand image focused on staff wearing less has meant more for the privately held company, which started in 1983 in Pinellas County. It has blossomed into a chain that brings in $900 million in yearly sales and is expected to cross the $1 billion mark for the first time next year.

As they say, sex sells and that’s something to give a hoot about.

Photo: Alexandra Carpanzano, a bartender at Hooters of Cumberland in Atlanta, smiles to the customers as she works at the restaurant. (AP Photo)

Those looking for some soft core T&A at the local bookstore will have one less choice. FHM, one of the slick cheesecake “laddie mags” born around the turn of the century, is shutting down, sending young men, no doubt, scrambling for other places to fulfill their masturbatory fantasies.

Unlike Playboy or raunchier rivals like Penthouse or Hustler, FHM models never took it all off. A wisp of clothing or a strategically placed arm would hide nipples or crotches and the emphasis was more on sexy poses than close ups of shaved vaginas (although the web site recently launched “uncensored” photos that show the goods.

FHM’s British edition is number one over there but never could crack the soft core “laddie” market that is dominated by Maxim on these shores.

From Tonight.Com:

Cameron Diaz relaxes by having sex.

The actress - who is dating pop singer Justin Timberlake - finds lovemaking so therapeutic she believes it could be used as a cure for practically everything.

She is quoted by Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper as saying: “Sex is the most amazing stress reliever. I actually think it’s the best thing for everything! I think it should be 100 percent part of everyone’s life on
a day-to-day basis. We’d all be a lot happier!”

The 34-year-old star - who gets up close and personal with Hollywood heartthrob Jude Law in new festive movie The Holiday - particularly enjoys energetic romps which get her all hot and sweaty.

She said: “I love being physical, I love to get my heart-rate up and I love sweating. Sex is undoubtedly the best way to do that!”

Dale Yeager is a noted criminal analyst and CEO of SERAPH, Inc., a company that produces a periodic report on “The State of School Safety in American Schools,” for Congress. Each year, his ream of researchers visits some 200 school districts, surveying and teaching administrators, teathers and other personnel about school safety issues.

What his team finds is profiled by Jennifer Mertens on Officer.Com:

“Truancy is the root of all school safety problems,” Yeager says. “This is the frustration I hear from police departments: ‘I know these kids are out running around. My people see them every day.’ ”

Truancy, he adds, feeds into the arena of young sexual predators, sex crimes, gang activity, negative cliques and all the problems associated with them.

“Give me a break.” That’s what kids want these days. And, according to Yeager, school officials and social workers are more than willing to give them one.

“Police departments need to come to terms with sex crimes,” Yeager says. “More and more sexual assault and paraphelia is happening with children. We’re seeing sex aggression in 6/7-year-old kids.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls the increasing number of STDs in students an epidemic. Yeager’s group credits the increase to behaviors such as multiple sex partners, the popularity of oral sex in middle schools and increase of students engaged in same-sex relationships.

“You can’t just say this stuff doesn’t happen,” he stresses. “It does and is. Oral sex has become like changing your socks. We have yet to be in a middle school that didn’t have huge problems with this.”

It’s a school day. You may know where your kids are but do you really know what they are doing?