Click here for the gory details (God Goddess bless all those Lefty bloggers for maniacally live-blogging the whole thing all afternoon).

If they had courses like this when I was in school, maybe I would’ve skipped that headcase chick I dated for a while:

Even college students might need a lesson or two about dating.

Beginning in February, the University of Sioux Falls will offer a one-credit dating course called “Finding Dates Worth Keeping.”

Laurie Chaplin, a relationships counselor and licensed therapist who’s been married 28 years, will be the instructor.

Lecture 1: Find yourself a naked party*.

*Not applicable at Antioch College.

Remember, kids — crime doesn’t pay:

Doughnuts will no longer be served to Franklin County jail inmates.

County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy put a $55,000 annual contract for the doughnuts on hold last month over questions about their nutritional value and trans-fat content.

Sheriff’s officials have now dropped a request asking commissioners to approve a contract that would have supplied glazed and jelly doughnuts, as well as crullers, at $4 a dozen.

Franklin County is urged to ship all surplus doughnuts to LST headquarters.

I got a chuckle out of this Chronicle correction:

Dan Patrick is in the Texas Senate. A headline on Page B3 of Monday’s editions implied he was in the House.

Heh. I still think he’s In Da House!

Bramanti’s post yesterday on college kids gettin nekkid (for “intellectual” reasons, not the usual ones) prompted me to reflect upon my own college career and share “Benzion’s First Iron Law of Higher Education,” to wit…

The willingness of a student to show up naked at a party is almost inversely proportional to the average person’s desire to see them naked.

Last night I went rummaging through the attic, searching my files.

Today, I bring you [WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGE] the proof.

Other than to remind everyone again that this blog is not in any way officially affiliated with Dan Patrick, I don’t know that there is much else I can say.

What a long, strange trip it has been.

The creator of Scooby-Doo has gone on to claim that big Scooby Snack in the sky.

(1/09/07 - LOS ANGELES, CA) - In a career that spanned more than six decades, Iwao Takamoto assisted in the designs of some of the biggest animated features and television shows, including “Cinderella,” “Peter Pan,” “Lady and the Tramp” and “The Flintstones.”

But it was Takamoto’s creation of Scooby-Doo, the cowardly dog with an adventurous heart, that captivated audiences and endured for generations.

Takamoto died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Warner Bros. spokesman Gary Miereanu said. He was 81.

The imaginative animator also had a hand in many other classic characters.

[At Hanna-Barbera] he worked on cartoons for television, including “Josie and the Pussy Cats,” “The Great Grape Ape Show,” “Harlem Globe Trotters” and “The Secret Squirrel Show.”

Takamoto also created other famous cartoon dogs such as Astro from “The Jetsons” and Muttley, the mixed-breed that appeared in several Hanna-Barbera animations. He also directed the 1973 feature “Charlotte’s Web.”

And in case you were wondering…

Takamoto said he created Scooby-Doo after talking with a Great Dane breeder, and named him after Frank Sinatra’s final phrase in “Strangers in the Night.”

Classic laughs

… to start your legislative session–”Please Don’t Tax Texas Again.”

[Hat-tip: Texans for Fiscal Responsibility]

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