This is an example of where I want to just read a news story, and instead get a watered-down article written by someone who thinks they're George Carlin. It's a story about how a Vice Principal activated a remote camera on a student's laptop while the student was in their home. The Vice Principal observed behavior they found to be offensive (one can only imagine), and notified the student, who notified his parents.

This is probably against Federal wiretapping laws, to say nothing of privacy invasion involving a child. The FBI is investigating.

But instead of just reporting on this interesting story, the writer, Joel Hruska, tries his best Judd Apatow shtick, complete with references to strip clubs and Japanese porn. How that has anything to do with the story fails me. He later asks readers to "put on your helmet, kids" and "you couldn't make this stuff up."

Enough of this. A story like this is important! Please just give me the news story. A tad bit of editorializing is generally OK - but to this excess is just plain distracting. It took me twice as long to digest and understand the story because I had to mentally filter out all the silliness.