Becky’s M.A. thesis defense is later this morning — at 9:00 AM Arizona time, to be exact. Wish her luck!

In honor of this momentous occasion, and in response to popular demand, I present a gallery of some of the intellectually stimulating pictures that grace the 156 pages of the thesis. :)

Good luck, Becky!!! You’ll do great!!!

P.S. Hee hee, boobies.

Poor Tara Reid. Everyone’s favorite party movie whore had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction this weekend at P. Diddy’s 35th birthday party when, seemingly unbeknownst to the starlet, the strap of her dress fell off of her shoulder, exposing her left boob. As you can see in the picture (NSFW) below, Ms. Reid’s nipple says a thousand words about her breast enhancement surgery.

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“E-mail warns students of cab driver threat,” blares the top headline in today’s Observer. As it turns out, though, the “threat” is merely an attempt by an enterprising wannabe porno producer to simultaneously corner two profitable triple-X markets — college coeds and Catholic schoolgirls — by offering large sums of money to prospective, um, actresses from Saint Mary’s College. Heh.

For the uninitiated, Saint Mary’s is Notre Dame’s all-female sister school. Its matriculants are known in some circles as “SMC chicks” (pronounced “smick chicks”).

Anyway, here’s an excerpt from the article:

Students at Saint Mary’s received an e-mail Thursday warning them of a cab driver or cab drivers soliciting students to pose for pictures in hotel rooms.

According to the e-mail, sent by Vice President of Student Affairs Linda Timm, the driver or drivers solicits Saint Mary’s students to pose for pictures by offering them various amounts of money. The e-mail noted there “have also been requests for other sex acts with groups of individuals so that encounters can be videotaped.”

The e-mail stated that one specific driver has been identified and was issued a no trespass order, forbidding the driver to come onto the Saint Mary’s campus.

Saint Mary’s Security is monitoring the situation, as are other appropriate authorities in the surrounding communities, the e-mail said.

The article states that the monetary offers have been “intentionally enticing.” As are some SMC chicks, or so we’ve heard. :)

According to the Observer, Timm’s e-mail includes a dire warning to any wannabe SMC-chick porn stars:

The technology that exists today will allow pictures and video such as is being requested to be sent out over the Internet. It is hard to know just how far such pictures will travel and in whose hands they may arrive. Pictures such as these often have a way of surfacing later in one’s life when it is least expected. Do not place yourself in this type of situation. The money may sound attractive, but the consequences can be dangerous, sometimes fatal.

Now, obviously I don’t have any objection to “warning” students of this “threat,” nor do I disagree with any of what is stated above (although “sometimes fatal” does sound a wee bit alarmist).

But as to “Saint Mary’s Security…[and] other appropriate authorities in the surrounding communities…monitoring the situation,” I have to ask: Is there actually anything illegal going on here? I mean, making porn is legal, isn’t it? Paying someone to engage in sex acts with you is prostitution, and that’s illegal… but paying someone to get naked, or even to engage in sex acts with a third party, so you can videotape it and sell the tape to someone else… well, that’s just good old-fashioned American entrepreneurialism, isn’t it? :)

As long as the cab driver isn’t coercing, threatening or forcing anyone to do anything — as long as he’s merely bribing them — isn’t that, like, legal? Or am I wrong about this? Someone please tell me if I am…

Anyway, if you’re a SMC chick or a female Domer, be on the lookout for sleazy cab drivers. And if you’re a Notre Dame dude, be on the lookout for the premiere of Girls Gone Wild: South Bend, coming soon to a video store (or website or file-sharing service) near you. :)

Now that Brendan is powerless to stop me, I’ll make his site NC-17 yet!

Dahlings, there is a boobiethon to raise money for, you guessed it, boobies! Hurray!

(Link is SFW)

Here at BrendanLoy.com, we’re all about the lesbian action, provided of course that it’s family-friendly. And, well, what could possibly be more family-friendly than Alan Keyes’s daughter wearing an anti-Bush pin and kissing her rainbow-clad girlfriend in a picture that the young Ms. Keyes posted on her very own blog?

The picture’s worth a thousand words… but here are some words, anyway:

my parents and I were seriously not getting along and so we needed some time off from each other; the idea was that after a year of being a wonderful good helping-the-poor type person they would once again like me and therefore be willing to pay for my college. I’m not so sure that part of it will work; despite the fact that I’m all about working for global justice THEY don’t care about that, THEY only care that I am an evil dyke. And even if I am a charitable dyke I am still a dyke who KISSES GIRLS and especially with the gay marriage thing going on now that’s at the front of their minds.

You may recall that, not long ago, the esteemed U.S. Senate candidate from Maryland Illinois bashed Mary Cheney, the vice president’s daughter, for being a lesbian and, thus, a “selfish hedonist.” In consideration of which, you gotta feel for poor Maya Keyes. It must be rough having Alan as her dad.

Of course, it’s possible, I suppose, that this is all some sort of elaborate hoax — albeit a hoax far more convincing than the one that snookered Dan Rather. But I don’t think so. Here’s photo evidence the lesbian photographed above is indeed Alan Keyes’s daughter:

Sure looks like the same girl. And it seems like there would have to be an awful lot of conspirators involved, if this were a conspiracy.

I found out about this from Fark, which found out about it from Chillinois, which found out about it from Modern Vertebrate. Now it’s all over Daily Kos, Politics1 and Wonkette (who would “totally do her”), and it seems destined to continue percolating through the blogosphere and the wider web world in the coming hours and days.

Both of the above photos of Maya and her girlfriend reportedly came originally from Maya’s blog, as did the “dyke” commentary above, although they have since been yanked offline. The blog is still there, but somewhat more sanitized, I guess.

A Daily Kos contributor addresses the thorny issue of whether it’s kosher to “out” a 19-year-old who happens to be the daughter of an asshole:

Lost in all this talk of Maya Keyes and her privacy is a simple fact. Assuming that this story is legitimate, then Maya Keyes posted onto a publicly accessible part of the net a photo of herself kissing another girl. Assuming that this story is legimiate, Maya Keyes made multiple blog posts referencing her own homosexuality. The posts were in an obscure but still publically accessible corner of the net; the notion that anybody’s privacy is being violated here is off base.

Sorta like how, if my dad were running for political office on a platform of criminalizing mental illness, and someone said “But your son is A.D.D.,” I wouldn’t be able to claim that my privacy rights had been violated, since I chose to write about that issue on my publicly accessible website.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how this develops. Hopefully without too much psychological trauma for Maya.

For the record, Maya, if you’re reading this, we here at BrendanLoy.com think it’s cool to be who you are, and to declare it loudly and proudly, even if it pisses your father off. (Okay, okay, especially because it pisses your father off. :)

UPDATE: From the official Keyes website, via bloggers Selfish Hedonist and ArchPundit:

I suppose it’s possible that she just really likes rainbows. But, well, applying Occam’s Razor… :)

UPDATE UPDATE: Here is, allegedly, Maya’s profile on Gay.com.

This almost makes me believe the story less, because it seems just too cute. But there’s no denying the rainbows in the photo above…

Anyway, the Gay.com profile says her politics are “Way left,” explains under the category “Tattoos” that she has “only a few now, but working on getting my entire back/chest done,” and answers the question “How ‘Out’ are you?” with a definitive “Totally.” Last but not least, the profile reveals that she’s a cunning linguist!

Languages spoken
German, Spanish
I also speak Latin and American Sign Language and can understand French, Dutch and Italian. I am also learning Hebrew and Arabic.

Sorry, but that was just too easy to pass up… :)

P.S. According to the Gay.com profile, she’s 21, not 19.

CORRECTION: According to commenter John, himself a blogger, the Gay.com profile described above is for the girlfriend, Bria, not for Maya. “Maya had a profile, too, but it’s since been taken down,” John says. I have no idea what John’s connection is, if any, to this story, nor whether he knows what he’s talking about. But if true, his statement would explain the age discrepancy.

This is a family website, so I’m not going to comment on the hot lesbian action between Madonna and Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards tonight. (To say nothing of the “like a virgin” strip show.)

No, not gonna comment. I’ll just link to it. :)

(I didn’t actually watch the VMAs, by the way. I forgot. Dammit.)