Reporter/Stripper Files Lawsuit

Some might say reporters and stripper have a lot in common - they both uncover things.

So , the former Houston Chronicle reporter who was fired after another publication exposed her second job as a night club stripper announced Thursday she had filed a federal gender discrimination complaint against the paper that let her go.

In her complaint, Sarah Tressler, 30, is asking the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to look into the Chronicle's decision to fire her. Tressler says an editor told her she was let go because she hadn't disclosed her side gig in her job application.

"I was very upset that I was fired because I had been told by many editors that I was doing a good job," Tessler said in a statement. "There was no question on the form that covered my dancing. I answered the questions on the form honestly."

Tressler announced she filed the complaint at a news conference with her lawyer, Beverly Hills celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. Later, Tressler tweeted: "Couldn't ask for anyone better by my side ... So grateful."

The Houston Press, an alternative weekly, first exposed the "double life" of Tressler in a feature story with the headline "Writer by day, stripper by night." It also drew attention to Tressler's blog - Diary of an Angry Stripper - which included pictures of her scantily-clad self, as well as rich detail from the inside of the gentlemen's club.

During her two-month reporting gig, Tressler covered high society, human interest stories, and fashion. She had previously worked as a freelancer for the Chronicle. Tressler "very rarely" worked as an exotic dancer, a skill that helped her pay for college, she said at the news conference, according to local TV station KPRC.

Tressler said she occasionally went to the club for exercise.

"And I didn't have a gym membership. So, on days off I might just go in there in the afternoon and do acouple stage rotations and knock it out," she said.

KPRC reports that Tressler, who has a master's degree in journalism from New York University, also teaches part time at the University of Houston.

"Most exotic dancers are female, and therefore to terminate an employee because they had previously been an exotic dancer would have an adverse impact on women, since it is a female dominated occupation," Allred, who is a self-described feminist lawyer, said in a statement.

"Sarah's work as a dancer is lawful and is not a crime. It does not, has not and will not affect her ability to perform her job as a journalist," the statement read.

Iowa Girl Takes Tim Tebow Cutout to Prom

Slate did a little piece on this.

I guess because anything "Tim Tebow" is news.

Link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/05/10/girl_takes_tim_tebow_cardboard_cutout_to_prom.html

Secret Service Scandal Discussed on 'Take Your Kids to Work Day'

Everybody is talking about the Secret Service sex scandal, even those in Washington on "Take Your Children to Work Day."

Here's the link:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/oddnews-22772304/secret-service-sex-scandal-discussed-during-take-your-child-to-work-day-at-state-department-29113597.html

9-Year Old Told to Report to Jury Duty

How do we expand the pool of people for jury duty?

Let's start letting kids serve on a jury, and it happenend thisweek in Massachuesetts this week.

"I was like, 'What's a jury duty?'" Jacob Clark  told the Cape Cod Times in response to his summons to appear in Orleans District Court in Massachusetts on April 18.  Oh, I forgot to mention Clark is 9.

His thoughts immediately turned to thinking it could be a good excuse to miss a day of school.

His dad called the jury commission office to find out what happened. It turns out that someone apparently had typed 1982 for the Yarmouth third-grader's birth year instead of 2002.

The mistake was quickly corrected.

Massachusetts Jury Commissioner Pamela Wood says a child gets called for jury duty once or twice a year.

The Big Bang Theory Quotes From "The Vacation Solution"

Sheldon has to take a vacation, so he goesto work with Amy and will Howard and Bernadette sign a pre-nup?

Here are the quotes:

Sheldon: Physics - Mad Libs

Howard: I haven't seen him laugh that hard since Leonard made a multiplication error.

Suggestion Box: Can Dr. Copper take a vacation?

Sheldon: I'm sneaking into work.

Sheldon: It's how Velma and Shaggy smuggled Scooby into the old lighthouse.

Bernadette: Hoping my relatives think it's Hebrew.

Amy: You, would fetch a unicorn.

Sheldon: Mahalo for nothing, Hawaii.

Sheldon: A seagull stole a hot dog from me on the beach.

Leonard: Leonard's got to get paid.

Amy: It's going to be romantic.

Sheldon: A little hazing for the new fellow?

Sheldon: It's like asking the Incredible Hulk to open a pickle jar.

Sheldon: I bought a tamagotchi in 1998 and it's still alive.

Raj: Follow your heart.

Howard: I some rare comic books.  The Vespa is almost paid off.

Raj: Mr. Roper is dead!

Sheldon: Biologists are mean.

Sheldon: This place needs a suggestion box.

Sheldon: When I was in kindergarten, I recited Pi to 1,000 places.

Sheldon: It takes me a while to get things going on an unfamiliar toilet.

Sheldon: I'm no stranger to a little gray matter.

Sheldon: Yea, you're a biologist.

Sheldon: Social convention is stupid.

Howard: We're grown men, we drink at bars.

Sheldon: This is a fairly substantial wound.

Sheldon: I had lost a lot of thumb blood.

Sheldon: Next year I'm going to EPCOT.

Bernadette: He still carries his gun.  it's more of a fashion statement.