ANTM is the new Miss America Pageant, and it’s fierce!

From an MSNBC story:

The married father of three is an assistant U.S. attorney based in Pensacola, Fla., and president of a youth sports association in Gulf Breeze.

He was arrested Sunday and was initially placed on a suicide watch, but the watch was lifted at the request of the defense, after Atchison assured a U.S. magistrate Tuesday he wouldn’t harm himself.

Atchison was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after arriving for a meeting with someone authorities say Atchison thought was the mother of a 5-year-old girl with whom he allegedly arranged to have sex. The woman was actually a Macomb County sheriff’s detective participating in an Internet sex sting operation.

Atchison was charged with three felonies, the most serious of which is crossing state lines with intent to have sex with someone under 12.

Shouldn’t that instead read “rape”?

Glenn Beck, Super Moron: “I love reading about the end of the world, but why else does anyone want to waste their time on words?”

Hooray for this!: “A tearful Mayor Jerry Sanders made a dramatic shift yesterday, explaining that he can no longer oppose same-sex marriages because he does not want to deny justice to people like his daughter, who is a lesbian.”

“As we have gone further down the road, we have moved away from using WKRN and its many blogs as a forum for personal opinion by our station bloggers.” -Gwen Kinsey, WKRN GM*

*Who was very, super duper, extra nice to me, by the way. We just differ on whether station blogs should have a point of view or not. I think they should, because a point of view is engaging. I can’t speak for her, but I imagine she finds it too big a liability. I respect her ideas about her new media enterprise, but I was initially hired for my voice. I felt I’d be selling myself and much of Nashville short if I went to a dry, opinionless style of blogging. Maybe I was wrong about this, but I thought NiT would be really crappy if I couldn’t express any opinion whatsoever about anything. We’d slowly built a committed readership who respected and valued the service we provided, which was blog aggregation that wasn’t automated and boring. I thought it was unnecessary to change the model. Perhaps a Digg-like NiT can be a rousing success. When WKRN rolls it out I guess we’ll all find out. I hope I was wrong, I seriously do.