The best teachers think this about their students. A pack of six year old kids cooped up in a room together is stressful for the teacher; it's not like parenting or babysitting, it's (mostly) controlled chaos. I don't blame the teacher for feeling like her students are future delinquents; she probably had a rough day.…

io9 covers science. Drug breakthrough=science. And, obviously, of interest to some of the people who read this blog.

Are there any other female leaders/leads in zombie/other apocalypse movies? A woman who doesn't get rescued by a dude? Aside from Alice? I'm coming up blank...

I actually really like Rory. He tempers the relationship between Amy and the Doctor. And from a story standpoint, he's probably the only thing keeping the Amy/Doctor relationship PG. And I like my Doctor unattached.

The boy is only 12. If he's expressing this level of hate at this early age, his parents (or whatever adults/role models he's imitating) must be very outspoken about their own hatred.

I really think they couldn't go wrong with a pair of jeans or black leather pants, a killer pair of dark red boots (flat) and a tight tank top/jacket combo. And the belt. If they're going modern day they really, really need to kill the bustier and tights.

"Spiders have been a plague on the earth ever since they marched their eight feet out of hell."

This is what I am hoping. She's too batshit to actually get elected but if she DOES win the Republican primary there absolutely no way in hell her own party will vote her into office.

Between Blink and Empty Child, Dr. Who has caused me many a restless night.

Torchwood: Miracle Day should be on Netflix Streaming, but thinking long term: the Netflix/Starz contract was for 4 years and it ends this year (not sure when this year). Renewing it is going to cost Netflix significantly more (estimates are putting it @ 10 times original cost) so they might not go ahead with it.

Our lunch ladies in high school were very free with the fries. I'm pretty sure we got refills or something. It was kinda ridiculous.

Ditto. I'm the one who buys, the boys smoke mine for free.

It's always been my experience, even as a teen, that girls and boys were expected to buy their own. The only thing people gave away or traded were french fries.

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Ooh, I'll have to go back and read the Tuesday Next books, I don't remember them there! And I don't actually know if it's a thing; if it is, I've never read anything scholarly on it (never looked, could be out there).

One of the Professors who taught this book in college was convinced that the draft Bronte submitted for publication did not include "Reader, I married him" or anything after that. He posited that the whole last chapter(s?) of the book, with her having a son, etc, is the publisher going back to Bronte and asking for a…

I accidentally clicked on an anti-choice website once. They were calling pro-choicers "pro-abortion" advocates, and they made it sound like we're gleefully murdering fully formed babies. I'm pretty convinced it's impossible to have a meaningful pro-choice/anti-choice conversation because the two arguments don't even…

I'm waiting for someone to ask me if I'm on my period or 'being hormonal' so that I can hand their ass to them :-)

I really don't like hugging in general, but with friends I can deal with it. I have actually had to tell a person I work with not to hug me. Or touch me in any way, because it's unprofessional. And now I get teased by said person because I don't like to be hugged.

Regardless of whether or not you agree with or like Dan Savage's advice, he is defiantly sex positive and sex healthy. Everywhere I look, I'm reading about people with high political standing hating on women and their sexual autonomy, hating on queers, marginalizing both and cutting funding for both.