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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by CHUCK SHEPPARD IRS agents, investigating tax-fraud suspect Rashia Wilson, 26, turned up "thousands" of identification numbers in a September home search in Tampa. Wilson had already laid down a challenge in May, when she wrote on Facebook: "I'm Rashia, the queen of IRS tax fraud. (I'm) a millionaire for the record. So if you think that indicting me will be easy, it won't. I promise you. I won't do no time, dumb (expletive unpublished)." The search also turned up a handgun, and since Wilson is a convicted felon (with 40 arrests), she was jailed, and denied bail in part because of the Facebook post. [Tampa Bay Times, 9-22-2012] Many visitors to San Francisco's historic Castro neighborhood are shocked at the city's culture of street nudism (virtually all by males). Only if the display is "lewd and lascivious" (with the purpose to arouse) is it illegal, but a September report in SF Weekly suggests that the nudity must be total — that calling any attention at all to the genitals may suggest lewdness, such as by rings worn around the scrotum. [SF Weekly, 9-7-2012] COPYRIGHT 2011 CHUCK SHEPHERD WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM pleaded his case to the panel, but 20 times during the questioning invoked his right not to incriminate himself. [Los Angeles Times, 9-21-2012] The Continuing Crisis Doctors Just Want to Have Fun: (1) Navy medical examiner Dr. Mark Shelly was notified of disciplinary action in July after admitting that he let his children handle a brain (and pose for photos with it) that he was transporting for autopsy to Portsmouth, Va. (2) A 15-year-old Swedish student, working at Malmo University Hospital on a "practical work-life" internship, was allowed by a doctor to make part of the incision for a cesarean section childbirth and to examine the patient vaginally. One alarmed cesarean patient alerted news media after reading about the orientation program in May and wondering if she had been a "hands-on" patient. [Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.), 7-13-2012] [The Local (Stockholm), 10-1-2012] Chutzpah! The former police chief of Bell, Calif., Randy Adams, had resigned in disgrace after prosecutors charged eight other city officials with looting the municipal budget. Adams had been recruited by the alleged miscreants (at a sweetheart salary twice what he made as police chief of much larger Glendale), and his resignation left him with a generous state pension of $240,000 a year. Rather than quietly accept the payout, Adams immediately appealed to a state pension panel, claiming that his one inexplicably rich year in Bell had actually upped his pension to $510,000 a year. In September, with a straight face, Adams Chuck Sheppard WEEKLY HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY For the Week of November 18, 2012 ARIES (March 21-April 19) You have a burn- ing need to confi de in someone, though it's still diffi cult to know who is trustworthy. Even your own diary, if left unprotected, could reveal you. Protect your right to privacy, and you'll control your image and reputation. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) People don't always behave nicely or respond in the expected way. Tolerant people are happier, more ener- getic and more likely to change the world even, as they contribute to world peace. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) There's very little you could say about yourself now that wouldn't come across as bragging. Better to leave the commentary about you and your accomplish- ments to someone else. You have more fans than you know. CANCER (June 22-July 22) This week your choices will have a favorable affect on a young- er person. You'll make this person happy twice: fi rst, when your action makes life easier and better, and then again when this person imitates your action and makes another person's life easier and better. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You can roam far with- out moving a muscle. Sometimes this doesn't serve you well. This week the daydreams that come at inappropriate times are a distraction that could hurt your productivity. Remember, if you can focus your mind, you can rule your world. Make the effort. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your happiness will be amplifi ed as you broaden your defi nition of success to include goals that encompass not only your own achievements but the achieve- ments of others, as well. You can judge the worthiness of a goal by how many people it will touch. ADVICE GODDESS The Sorrow and the Pretty LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Wanting a moment to end so you can get to the next one is a trap. There is no "later." Everything happens now. So don't run from the uncomfortable mix of anticipation and apprehension in the air this week. Instead, take a breath and agree to feel it. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) The week's events will seem designed to highlight your individuality and style. You'll remain uniquely yourself. You'll teach others through your ac- tion. You'll teach that it's best for everyone to express a unique spirit. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The proof isn't always in the pudding. Sometimes, for rea- sons beyond your control, the end result does not refl ect the good intention and solid effort that went into a task. But when you do the right thing, the satisfaction you derive from your action is "pud- ding" enough and most fulfi lling. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Situations are made or broken by the level of attention that goes into the fi ner points. It takes time to become masterful, but you're hard-pressed to think of a better way to spend the hours. Your thoroughness will refi ne not only your contri- bution, but also your character. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You will be blessed with reliable sources. You know better than to trust anyone who doesn't have fi rst- hand experience in your area. Your chosen advisers won't let you down. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Obstinance is its own obstacle. If you insist that there's only one way a task can be completed, you're sure to come across a blockage of that one path. But when you're open to different perspectives, such blocks are merely indicators to go around, over or under. Do men in troubled relationships often seek someone to give them a nudge to get out? I often attract these men, some of whom I suspect just want a backup relationship before splitting with the wife. I happen to be interested in the current man confi ding in me about his angry, obsessive wife. I won't tell him to leave on my account, but I hate to see such a great man putting up with her. — Catalyst By Holiday Mathis You've gotta give a guy points for an original spin on a tired pickup line: "If I said you have a beautiful body, would you let me sob on your shoulder about my mean wife?" As a listener, you provide considerable cost savings over the guy with the gray beard, the monocle, and the couch, and it can't hurt that crying on your shoulder comes with a front row seat to your jigglies. Your presence can also provide a helpful thumb on the "I'm outta here!" side of the scale for a man who lacks a Ouija Board, a Magic 8-Ball, or the guts to make a decision. And while it is possible that some of these men fall for you, it's also possible that any "I love you! I want you! I have to have you!" a man blurts Amy Alkon out is just a bad translation of "Eeek! I'll be alone, and you're cute and nice to me. You'll do." It is a bit odd that, the way some women collect Hello Kitty, you collect "Hello, I'm teetering on an angry divorce." Are you maybe insecure about getting involved with a guy when all you have to offer is you? With a man in a troubled marriage, you start with a competitive advantage — how endearingly sane and reasonable you seem compared to Mrs. Satan. And a man in crisis requires conversational triage — attending to those bleeding out fi rst. (No need to lay your feelings on the line; you can focus on his problems and bond over how you're the listening postess with the mostest.) from the Trail of Tear-Streaked Kleenex, consider the obvious: A man confi ding in you about his "angry, obsessive wife" is a man who is NOT AVAILABLE. Maybe it's time you retired from running the Unhappily Married Man Rescue and take a run at the unencumbered. (At the very least, strictly limit the ear-time you give to other women's leftovers that aren't quite left.) You should fi nd that a man has much more to give when he isn't panicking that his wife will take half of everything he owns, including his man parts she's got squirreled away in a drawer somewhere. As for the latest man crying out to you Amy Alkon all rights reserved. NOVEMBER 21-27, 2012 UCW 23