That’s precisely the first thought that came to my mind after reading the latest news story about the latest teacher turned latest sex fiend…oh, I’m sorry, porn star. Oh yes, and not to mention, how many times am I going to read about a woman like this in Florida? (Seriously though. What’s up with this trend?)

Maybe we should have taken the hint last fall when Ms. (formerly) Tiffany Shepherd was fired from her teaching job at Florida’s Port St. Lucie High School after pictures of her were discovered on the Web “moonlighting as a bikini mate on Smokin’ Em charters fishing tours,” according to Associated Content News.

Today, Shepherd is now known as Leah Lust and has officially become a porn star. (Official as in just try searching for Leah Lust video, Leah Lust Secret Agent, or Tiffany Shepherd video on your favorite search engine.)

And what does the latest Florida teacher turned porn star have to say about all of this? You may (or may not) be surprised.

“I’m not particularly proud of it. To be honest, I hate it,” said Shepherd (aka Leah Lust) to Page 2 Live. “I’m an educated woman, but I never though it would come to this. No one gets brought up thinking they’ll be a floozy.”

Lust says that since being fired, she has been unable to another form of employment, well, besides the porn-related jobs. She even claims that she’s sent out 2,500 resumes…to no avail.

Gee, I wonder why no one wants to hire this woman. And what types of jobs are on her application list? I don’t think the childcare center is going to call back, or the elementary school, or the… Yeah.

Terrorist? No. Corporate executive suicide to blame on our toilet economy? No. Bozo the clown running around the terminals on fire? No, but you’re getting closer.

The airport was evacuated because a homeless man decided to hold the place up with a dud bomb, and by dud I mean lifeless as in fake, a joke, a total phony.

According to ABC News the incident — really mess — ended quickly with a swift arrest, though thousands of travelers were held up due to what is likely the result of insanity or sheer boredom.

A judge apparently ordered this man, 32-year-old Scott McGann, to undergo psychiatric tests. (Gee, I wonder why?)

We have to wonder what would possess a man at 32 years of age, albeit homeless, to run into an airport and pretend to have a live bomb. Oh yes, and then pretend to detonate it.

Personally, I believe the man was bored. I mean, what else — other than catch sewer rats, rummage through garbage or look for dropped change for booze — does a homeless person have to do on a daily basis? McGann’s motive was probably just an attempt to spice up an otherwise mundane existence. So he put together his illusionary bomb and walked on over to the nearest airport and played some more pretend. May have even cracked a smile, something he probably hadn’t done in a while.

I wonder if he’s thinking it was worth it, now sitting in a jail cell somewhere getting three free meals a day, with a roof over his head, a toilet, a toothbrush, access to a shower, workout facility…and even television.

With this generation of combat veterans, we’re experiencing something a little more shocking.

According to the Associated Press, psychological trauma may have caused an entire Army unit of combat veterans to murder almost 11 people upon returning home.

A recent comprehensive examination by an Army task force of medical experts looked at members of Fort Carson’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Their nickname is the Lethal Warriors.

The Lethal Warriors are accused of five killings in 2007 around Colorado Springs and another six since 2005.

The report analyzed that unit and a similar unit and noticed that the Lethal Warriors suffered more combat deaths and were also deployed longer. According to the report, Fort Carson 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division unit suffered 113 combat deaths.

The study suggests “a possible association between increasing levels of combat exposure and risk for negative behavioral outcomes, [and that soldiers face] significant disruptions in family-social support.”

When the GI’s were approached about why they didn’t receive mental health attention, according to the AP, they were “too afraid of being belittled.”

Lt. Gen. Michael D. Rochelle, the Army’s deputy chief of staff told the AP that between 2004 and 2008, 2,726 Army soldiers were involved in violent crimes out of a force of 1.1 million. He also said that at least 121 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have committed a killing in the U.S. or had been charged with one.

Still, the remainder of the night I continued to think about, “What if it had been a person?” What would I have done? What if that person would have died?

Yes, I would have turned around. Yes, I would have been incredibly freaked out. And no, I don’t typically dream of vehicular homicide. My brain has been on Jordan Valdez, 17, who was involved in a hit and run on Feb. 8.

According to a story in the Tampa Bay Times, Valdez is a Tampa area high school student who lives on Davis Island (a ridiculously upper-class neighborhood). On Thursday, she was booked into jail.

The night of the incident, Valdez was coming home from cheerleading practice, was messing with her radio and CD’s, and fatally hit a homeless woman named Melissa Sjostrom, 33. She was 16 years old when this all happened.

So, she gets home and decides not to tell anyone for a while. Of course, the parents end up finding out, followed by the area police. “Based on the nature of the crime” Valdez was tried as an adult at 17.

The maximum sentence is 30 years. She’s obviously not going to get that.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, she was in jail for 22 minutes. Her attorney, Ty Trayner, said she won’t face jail time if she accepts a plea bargain.

For someone being “tried as an adult” this unknown plea bargain with no jail time seems a bit out of place. It has me wondering, What’s making the judgment so soft? It could be the fact that she’s still a child, the fact that the woman was homeless, the fact that Valdez is rich or maybe something I’m completely missing.

What do you think? Should age and status have as much pull on a judge’s decision as it does?

The video is indeed disturbing, as one article covering this ridiculous event found on AOL News makes it a point to say. It’s also a reminder of the terrorist videos sent a few years back, which always brings Nick Berg back into my mind and the horrific scene of his decapitation via knife broadcast for the world to see thanks to the wonderful World Wide Web, as this latest video has done.

Besides the decapitation via buzzsaw and baseball bat, also flashed on the screen at different times are the slogans, “We don’t want your freedom” and “Death to America.”

How perfect for just after the Fourth of July.

Of course, the video was e-mailed anonymously to the Daily News and the operator of the coffee shop from where it was stolen, as reported by AOL News.

So, who could have done something like this? Well, two possibilities come to my mind. It was either some radical Islamic supporters or some dumb kids wanting to make a video that would usher in some mega fuss, which is has. Who knows.

What is known, however, is that anti-America sentiment, whether viciously intended or made for mockery, exists in the land of the free and home of the brave. We can all just hope it doesn’t escalate past YouTube.

Sanchez is the executive director of the anti-gang group Homies Unidos, in Los Angeles. Homies Unidos’s general objective is “to support the prevention of social violence, rehabilitation and construction of a culture of peace among the Central American community through the implementation of prevention-intervention programs and strengthening families.” It is a group originally founded in El Salvador that Sanchez decided to open a branch with in Los Angeles.

The group has helped children stay out of trouble and has even been responsible for some ex-gang members removing tattoos.

Precious, huh?

What’s even more precious is that Señor Sanchez was arrested under federal racketeering charges. He (allegedly) had conspired to kill a rival. Included with him are 23 others, all of whom are (supposedly) part of a gang associated with the Mexican Mafia known as MS-13.

According to the Associated Press, Sanchez is being tried for seven murders, eight conspiracies to commit murder, and gun and narcotics offenses since 1995. It was in 2006 when he returned from El Salvador and turned from his gangster ways…or so he said.

The indictment says Sanchez goes by Rebelde (or rebel as you probably could have guessed) and was a shot-caller. He had called the hit on his “rival” to increase his position in the gang. All involved can face up to 25 years in prison unless murder is in the mix. And if it is, that brings the death penalty into the picture.

As for Homies Unidos, its site “will be back soon.” Authorities haven’t been able to link anyone else associated with the non-profit group to MS-13.

Things happen a little different in reality.

In Pakistan, a country that is very much into cricket, there was a commando-style raid against the Sri Lankan cricket team.  The New York Times reports that seven people were killed in the attack.  The Pakistani authorities allege that those involved in the attack are Taliban fighters trained in Waziristan and are part of the same group that attempted an assassination on Pervez Musharraf.

Punjab, where the attack took place, is a cultural center that has long been isolated from the violence in the north, and the attack marked the possible end to that streak of relative peace.  The Taliban group has long been fighting a type of shadow war with India, using its established strongholds within Pakistan as staging points, all while fighting against the Pakistani authorities from within.

Cricket’s never been the world’s most popular sport, but like all sports, it can transcend the boundaries between people and countries.  Germans and allied forces played soccer together during cease fires between the trenches.  The Japanese love baseball more than America does now.  It is a shame whenever a team is targeted for a political statement.  No one wins a war in politics.

As Turner was leaving, he wisely snagged the tag number off the car parked near the cabin, went to a neighbor’s home and did as the woman asked.  

Police arrived shortly, arrested the man (it is unknown if he was able to eat any of the pizza) and took the woman to the hospital. 

As it turned out, the woman had been kidnapped and raped while jogging, and all by a man she knew rather well.

The man, David Jansen, asked her to check out his new car (actually a rental). When she came to look, he tied up the 24-year-old woman and drove her 200 miles to a cabin in Tennessee.

Sadly, the man was released on an $800,000 bond, which, I think, is far too low a price for a man who police say obviously had other acts he was prepared to perform (by evidence at the scene of the crime) of a more permanent nature.

This story does, however, have a happy ending. The woman and her husband stopped by the pizza shop and thanked the heroic pizza man for his swift and brave actions, and probably bought a pizza, too.