Joining Rox Pop and Feministe, et al, here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Ignoreland - R.E.M.
2. Party Generation - Dar Williams
3. Improper Dancing - Electric Six
4. Screenwriter's Blues - Soul Coughing
5. Dead - The Pixies
6. Turn a Square - The Shins
7. Someone to Watch Over Me - Chet Baker
8. You Are My Sunshine - Norman Blake
9. Panic - The Smiths
10. People Get Ready - The Blind Boys of Alabama

WAXAHACHIE, Texas -- A North Texas school district has apologized to a student identified only as "Black Girl" in a high school yearbook photo of the school's National Honor Society. All white students are identified by name in the photograph in the Waxahachie High School yearbook distributed Friday. The teen identified as "Black Girl" is the only black student in the photo.

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MARIETTA, Ga. -- This school year's final edition of a high school student newspaper was killed and the school's journalism class was eliminated after the principal said the paper highlighted negative stories and a lack of thorough reporting.

The principal, Randolph Bynum, cut the journalism class in part because the students were writing pieces on teenage pregnancy and vandalism in the parking lot, instead of fake propagandistic stories about how damn awesome the school is.

Bynum also stated that due to a teacher shortage, the journalism class had to be cut in order to keep more popular courses like cosmetology. Ladies! Please move away from your computers and over to the finger nail polish please!

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Who the hell wrote this headline? When should the phrases "Bush promises probe" and "Saddam underwear" ever be used in the same sentence? Or was it actually supposed say "Bush promises probe into Saddam underwear: pictures!"

UPDATE: "Promises" has become "pledges," and "underwear" has become "prison" in the story's headline.

Senator Thad Cochran, R-Miss., at left and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., at right, attempt to draw African-Americans into the battle over judicial filibusters on Capitol Hill by flashing gang signs they learned while watching "Boyz in the Hood" over lunch in Cochran's office.

Joining Rox Pop and Feministe, et al, here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. You and Your Folks/23rd Psalm - The Blind Boys of Alabama
2. Glow in the Dark (Demo) - Fishbone
3. La Bambola - Patty Pravo
4. These Things Take Time - The Smiths
5. Snowflake Music - Mark Mothersbaugh
6. Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt - Richard Thompson
7. Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground
8. Fancy's Funny Shirt - FannyPack
9. Greetings to the New Brunette - Billy Bragg
10. Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon - Flaming Lips

MONTGOMERY, ALA. -- A pregnant student who was banned from graduation at her Roman Catholic high school announced her own name and walked across the stage anyway at the close of the program.

Now, getting a high school diploma in Alabama should not only be encouraged, but is probably worthy of a national holiday or commemorative stamp. Not so at St. Jude Educational Institute, where school officials wouldn't allow Alysha Cosby to attend her graduation because of "safety concerns," not that they encouraged her to practice "safety concerns" when she was at Lookout Point making the beast with two backs with a fellow senior, who was allowed to attend the ceremony with his insatiable penis.

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