Later reports on the "pirate girl" have indicated that the university presented additional, and fairly substantial(?) justifications for withholding her diploma. Regretably, I didn't save links when they appeared.

Not exactly a "career stopper," but in a similar vein: Teen appeals vulgar Web speech punishment gives, as an example, a high school student who was threatened with suspension, and removed from participating in several student activities for referring to school officials as "a bunch of douchbags" on her MySpace page. As in the prior case, the story has changed slightly since first posted; but she was removed from the Student Council, and from the ballot for class secretary. She won the election on write-ins, but was prevented from taking the office. Case in appeals court.

Another case of possible interest: Town abuzz over mayor's racy MySpace page. The mayor had posed for some pictures for use with an entry in a "body builders" contest prior to becoming mayor. A friend/relative posted the pictures to "spice up the old ladie's sex life" sometime before the election. The town found out.

In this last case, the mayor has been "fired," ostensibly because of the "filthy pictures" but later articles have noted a "significant disagreement" with other town dictators politicians over matters involving maintenance of the swimming pool and golf course. ... (Her comment in an interview about a week ago didn't indicate any great disturbance over being fired, and the recall vote was very close.)

A later article on the mayor had a "sample picture." Not too impressive, but once again I didn't make adequate notes. Her name in Google likely would bring it up.

Rumor has it that Bill Gates (the Mickeysoft one) has a page on FaceBook, but it's been tagged "private" so you have to "be his friend" to see what incriminating stuff is there.

John