The Fab Four (plus two)

You know you're getting old when one-half of your high school group of friends has babies. Granted there were only four people in my group of close friends in high school, so it doesn't take too many babies to get to one-half. But still, I feel a little bit old.

Strangely, the babies were born only a week apart, so it's cute to see them interact with each other. 

But the downside of going home to visit my friends and their babies is that it inevitably leads my mom to start whining about, "When are you going to have babies?" 

Those babies have to be pretty damn cute to make me want to sacrifice my sanity like that. And as you can see from the picture, they are.

Creepy, Part II

A fellow 2003 Drake graduate is back in the news, and now the Des Moines Register seems to have picked up on the fact that he was, indeed, the student body president during the 2001-2002 school year.

First, some background on his previous charges: He had been forced to register as a sex offender for possession of child pornography in 2006. He also had a domestic assault conviction from 2005. And, the icing on the creepy cake: He's now been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 7-month-old baby.

It's truly unbelievable to me how far and how fast Matt Elliott has fallen. He clearly could've had a career in politics or even ran for public office – his Drake position seems to suggest that he was on that path. So what happened? Did he snap, did he start doing drugs, or was he always a big creep-o and no one noticed it? He always seemed normal to me, but maybe I'm not as good a judge of character as I thought I was.