While most of us like to unwind after a hard day at the office with a bubble bath and a nice glass of Shiraz, a well-respected lawyer in the New York Attorney General's Office has been known to crack the whip.
Alisha Smith, the attorney who helped win a $5 billion settlement from Bank of America for a securities fraud case three years ago, lost her job yesterday when word got out that she was also working as a 'professional dominatrix'.
According to The New York Post, performing S&M under the pseudonym "Alisha Spark," the 36-year-old got paid to restrain and whip clients.
Eric Schneiderman, a spokesman for the state Attorney General, wouldn't comment on the particulars, but suffice to say an employee needs official permission to "engage in activities that earn them more than $1,000".
If Smith, or Spark, was aware of the violation, she wasn't too worried and openly held conversations about it on Twitter with another well-known dominatrix called Jade Vixen.
Although her account has since been deleted, past convos are still visible via Vixen's account. In one such tweet, Spark said: "I think both of us are decompressing from the excitement of @FetishWeekend."
Brings new meaning to the term restraining order, doesn't it?
If you can't beat 'em, at least be louder than 'em. That seems to be the message Dave Grohl, lead singer of the Foo Fighters, wanted to impart on his dissenters.
His band was scheduled to play a gig in Kansas City, Missouri amid protests by a notorious anti-gay hate Westboro Baptist Church who objected to the band's recent video which features members dressed as rednecks frolicking naked together in a shower.
Before the show opened at the city's Sprint Center, the Foofs turned up in the back of a rig truck, dressed up as faux-country truckers. They belted out their tune "Keep It Clean (Hot Buns)" and drowned out the picketers' protests with a silly ditty.
In between songs, Grohl announced, "God Bless America! It takes all kinds; I don't care if you're black or white or purple or green, whether you're Pennsylvanian or Transylvanian, Lady Gaga or Lady Antebellum. Men loving women and women loving men and men loving men and women loving women -- you all know we like to watch that. But what I'd like to say is, God Bless America, y'all!"
Do you find it offensive or downright silly?
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An Ottawa-area community is in a scramble, after a Nepean High School student was expelled for egging a Grade 9 student as part of a hazing tradition.
Initiation gags targeting newcomers -- otherwise known as hazing -- have long formed part of the high school tradition; yet 17-year-old Mykal Baytaluk is paying dearly for his actions.
Although the Grade 12 student wasn't on school property when he pitched eggs from a car window at a Grade 9 student, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has decided to make an example of the senior.
"They've cracked down on it, which is understandable," said a Grade 12 student identified only as Robin. "But to expel him is a little extreme."
Fellow students, who rallied against the Board's decision to expel Baytaluk as "unjust" and over the top, then, staged a Twitter protest under the hash tag #protestformykal, with several students skipping class.
According to the CBC report, Baytaluk insists he did nothing wrong and would do it all over again.
Are such orientation rituals passé or fine, provided long as no one gets hurt?
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