Fortunately, depressed and on meds describes most teachers...

“they want [deadly force] to be something you can do if you feel like it.”

That is utterly terrifying, and precisely true.

Are you *sure* it’s not church league? It is in Utah...

It’s his yard. His castle. If it had been a gun this is exactly the sort of self-defense situation that gun ownership is supposed to provide. The duplicity on the part of white gun owners in disallowing self defense for a black gun owner is astounding.

I like your breakdown of the issue. He’s not exactly original, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t sincere, or that he isn’t good. Also, he’s done his homework when it comes to copying very specific sounds and styles, and if you’re going to copy someone else, you’d damn well better do it well. Those things put a world of…

Yeah, it’s effects are extremely variable from person to person. It makes me see snakes coming out of the wall, and hear bagpipes that aren’t there. I don’t imagine either of those would be helpful on a tennis court.

I *only* watched the fight because you wrote about it. I’ve never followed boxing in my life- just not an interest of mine. Then, some time back, I read the article you wrote on Ornette Colman. He’s a idol of mine, and your description of him was so deep, and so human. I liked what you had to say, and (especially) how…

...which is also the only thing that would be accomplished by arming teachers.

This is one hundred percent on the nose. As a teacher, I refuse to let weaponry take on any facet of my interaction with my students, and their parents.

I absolutely love every last one of these.

Roy Moore campaign bumper sticker

Violence may not be the answer, but it’s certainly a solid treatment option...

I’m a teacher, and I have one class with students who sometimes speak to each other in Spanish. The other students do their best to catch the words or phrases, and parrot them back. I love it. I’m working on learning Spanish as well, although I’m not at all fluent yet. I sometimes speak to them in German or…

I only watch a very small bit of boxing, and only because a lot of the best writing on deadspin is on the topic. I rarely know much about what I’m seeing, but I had a BLAST watching this fight. It was clearly, and easily entertaining. It was easy even for a guy like me to see that these fighters knew what they were…

That would be pretty great.

If the windshield is any indication, following too closely is a bit of a habit for that driver.

If you’re exercising your right to free speech in public, you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Doxing them doesn’t curtail their speech- if anything, it amplifies it. It also requires them to be responsible for the things they say.

Guiding design principle- “They wouldn’t call them right angles if they were wrong...”

McGregor gets one too many to the skull and gets a bit loopy. He momentarily forgets himself, and kicks Mayweather’s head off. Mayweather is knocked out for the first time, AND McGregor is disqualified.

Humanity wins.

When it comes to sports, I ONLY bandwagon. It’s the best! I only watch teams that are doing well. I don’t have to suffer through any “building years”. When the team eventually slips (they all do), I move on without missing a beat.