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Have you ever wanted to call Glenn Beck "the butt" repeatedly in a public forum where it really matters? Gloucester attorney Marc J. Randazza got the chance.

Today is just full of sad stories. Nothing can compare to the infuriating batting practice debacle, but this story is sweetly sorrowful. A North Shore native who volunteered as a lighthouse keeper at Thacher Island had sent out a message in a champagne bottle every year since 1991. Once missive found its way to Marshfield, which is something—but, more excitingly, a French couple recently came upon a message sent back in 2003. The couple responded by sending a postcard to the address include in the bottle, but the postcard was returned--the sender of the missive died last year of complications from surgery. It's uplifting to think that your maritime message could be received, but sad to realize you might not be around to get the response.

Today, we discovered an email that Marc Randazza sent to Glenn Beck's attorneys wondering, in lawyer talk, why Glenn Beck hates America.

The anonymous, satirical website GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaYoungGirlin1990 is the brainchild of Isaac Eiland-Hall, according to legal documents filed today with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Switzerland. The papers were filed by Gloucester attorney Marc J. Randazza, who represents Eiland-Hall and who, if this brief is any indication, is among the North Shore's most hilarious legal writers.

Last Friday, State police arrested a 21-year-old World of Warcraft gamer who had driven to Madison, Wisc. to kill a 17-year-old rival, according to reports. Staties arrested Gloucester gamer Trevor L. Lucas on the Mass. Turnpike just outside of Boston on a warrant out of Wisconsin. They reported that Lucas was packing a real arsenal: "four semi-automatic hand guns - two of which were loaded - along with four loaded, large-capacity magazines, two stun guns, three pepper spray containers, two assault knives, two expandable police batons and seven sets of handcuffs."

Lil Brah got a fantastic shot of the Annisquam light in Gloucester. Vivid sunrises and sunsets are some of our favorite shots and this one has both good color and a good feeling to it.

photographynatalia has a great silhouette from Gloucester. The darkened gazebo with just a few highlights is a nice touch, and the back lit flag with faded colors is terrific.

There's a good piece in today's Washington Post about a community supported fishery (CSF) in Port Clyde, Maine. It works like community supported farms do. The Port Clyde Fresh Catch subscription service offers subscribers a share of fresh shrimp throughout the winter. It's an effort on the part of the Midcoast Fisherman's Association to stem the tide that's washing small, sustainable and independent fisheries off our shore. The Port Clyde CSF only delivers to Maine, but other groups, like these Maine lobstermen will ship food overnight.

-- Gary Gomes, a 35-year-old New Bedford, was arrested on charges that he stabbed his ex-girlfriend and mother to death, according to authorities. The rotting bodies were discovered by authorities yesterday in Gomes's mother's apartment after neighbors complained of natural gas. The bodies had been rotting for days. Gomes was on probation from a 2005 assault and battery conviction. Gomes had threatened his girlfriend with a knife. [Herald]

Fark has given the "amusing" (arguably preferable to "dumbass") label to a recent Globe story that uses Detroit as a model for same-sex public schools. Pontificating that "when one thinks of success, one thinks of Detroit," Farkers cleverly point to the undefeated completely defeated Detroit Lions and the city's beautiful scenery as reasons not to follow in Detroit's footsteps. Some even go so far as to say that Boston itself is not exactly a model of success (using the Big Dig as an example), though others toss out the Bruins' remarkable success (not to mention wins over the Red Wings) as a reason to admire our fair city. According to the Globe piece, Boston is considering modifying a 1971 law prohibiting gender-based admission to schools in order to establish some same-sex educational institutions in the city. Advocates of single-sex education argue that it allows students to concentrate on academics instead of each other. As one Detroit International Academy student notes, "All boys do is get you in trouble as far as with babies." So maybe Gloucester is the district that should be pushing for single-sex schools?

We hate to keep ragging on Gloucester, but they just make it so damn easy. In the wake of media coverage of its teen pregnancy crisis, Gloucester has decided that secret meetings with no media are the best way to continue not dealing with teen pregnancy. That's the spirit, Gloucester--make kids feel like sex, contraception, and pregnancy are such taboo topics that they need to be discussed in private! Pile on even more shame! What a way to open up dialogue.

Beverly's offensive Horribles parade float that made fun of Gloucester's recent spate of teen pregnancy may have been sour grapes. It turns out that the much wealthier Beverly only lags 25 teen pregnancies behind its Cape Ann neighbor for the title of Preggers City, MA. Meanwhile, despite recent headlines, Gloucester's teen pregnancy rate has actually declined 45% over the past decade. [Herald]

Some people in Beverly Farms who think they are funny decided to make fun of the abundance of pregnant teenagers in Gloucester during their "Horribles" parade.

-- A 16-year-old boy was shot dead in Roxbury last night. Neighbors have identified him as Quamaine Williams. He is Boston's 27th homicide this year. No suspect has been named in the case. [Globe]

--A doctor and a nurse at Gloucester High School would like to give contraceptives confidentially to students, but Addison Gilbert Hospital refused, so the doctor and the nurse have quit in protest. They should do something, as the high school has had 17 teen pregnancies this year. [Boston Herald, WBZ]

The Gloucester woman who struck the car that Sandra Bullock and Jesse James were riding in over the weekend is still feeling her 15 minutes of infamy. 64-year-old Lucile P. Gatchell pled not guilty to driving under the influence today in Gloucester District Court. She will return to court June 6.

A quick-thinking restaurant owner in Gloucester learned that a frozen ham can be an effective defense against a robber. On Wednesday, the restaurant owner came upon a man who was in the process of liberating meat from the owner's fridge. Not sure why he went for the meat instead of the money, but alleged robbers aren't always the brightest of bulbs.

--More snow on the way tonight! Get your space-savers ready! [WBZ]

--After the panic, let's think about the fun aspects of winter--sleighs, end-of-year parties, presents, twinkling lights, and the general atmosphere of coziness.

--Another storm is on the way starting tonight and running through Sunday evening. [WBZ]

In the Oddly Enough story to beat all Oddly Enough stories, a bracelet that 31-year-old Aaron Giles, of Gloucester, lost in a Minnesota barn as a child has turned up again 25 years later and in a chicken gizzard. Giles told the AP that he probably lost his bracelet playing in his grandfather's barn. The barn was dismantled and moved to the town of Elmore, and workers in Elmore who were cutting up a chickens...

Massachusetts State Representatives Charles Murphy, of Burlington, and Patrick Natale, of Woburn, who are running against each other for a Senate seat, got all snippy with each other in the House chamber last Thursday. Murphy and Natale generally acted like two brothers who do the "Ma! He's touching me!" routine in the backseat of a car on a long road trip. Murphy told the Globe, "Natale employed a four-letter word or two and poked his...

Honest-to-goodness Nobel Laureates, along with a few non-Laureates, indulged their silly sides on Thursday night when Harvard University hosted the 2007 Ig Nobels ceremony. The Annals of Improbable Research magazine (that sounds like something Dave Eggers would have thought up) grants the "Ig Nobels" for achievements in "unusual and imaginative scientific discovery." Here's a list of this year's winners in all the Ig Nobel fields from the Guardian UK: Medicine: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester and...

The turf wars aren't limited to Boston. The Globe reported on an internal fight within the Gloucester PD that should make you feel a little better about the BPD's petty tiffs. A lieutenant for the GPD accused police chief John Beaudette of "running into him stomach-first during a recent confrontation over the deployment of officers." We looked at the Globe's picture of Lieutenant Jerris Cook, along with ones the Gloucester Times took of chief Beaudette....