Didn’t Michelle Rhee get criticized in Washington DC for laying off a bunch of African-American teachers, largely replacing them with white kids from Teach for America, most of whom only stick around for a couple of years? At least people are starting to catch onto some of the TFA nonsense.

My wife and I started dating when she was 19 (two months before she turned 20) and I was 24. A mutual friend had introduced us, and a few months after my previous long-term (and for a couple of years, long-distance) relationship had ended, she asked me out. So we had a five-year age difference, plus she's Jewish, and…

Today's hot dog water is tomorrow's "bone broth" - just add some seasoning.

Having Sandi Toksvig in that clip was a nice bonus.

Yeah, it's BBC Worldwide that really gets screwed if Top Gear goes. And while that's not a huge portion of their current revenue (I think, annually, it's still under £200 million that goes back to the BBC from Worldwide), it's growing annually.

There is. And the decline in variety and diversity of types of institutions is really worrying. The last thing we want is an education monoculture. But small, private, liberal-arts colleges are having a tough time in general, and they're not all going to make it. Some perfectly good schools are going to go under. And…

Honestly, if McD is going to act like this, I think members of the publix should consider using the actual restroom as entirely optional when stopping by for that purpose.

There's a ritual with a lot of chanting and the new Corporation is spawned from the carcass of a sacrificed goat.

Have you ever looked into the "professional training" track for HR types? It's actually shocking how poorly defined, inconsistent, and informal it all is. I looked into it when I realized I'd encountered my upteenth HR type (both good and bad) who seemed to have "wound up" in HR after doing something else. Given how…

I wonder if she ever hurled the "I should have married a Princeton man" at him during an argument. Ugh.

Shortly after our oldest was born, people would constantly say "So, you going to send him to Harvard?". Our usual response was "Well, honestly, at this point, how do we know that he's not a dummy?" People would just look mortified.

We make it clear to our kids that we expect them to work hard in school. We don't tell…

One other note - for anyone deciding that they're never buying a Hershey's product again. Hershey ice cream is made by Hershey Creamery, an unrelated, family-owned business with no connection to Milton Hershey at all. It was founded the same year, in fact.

Just thought of a new slogan for Hershey's:

Yeah - it's a great idea. Get the consumers to get used to the taste of mild spoilage to hide the fact that the product is stale and might've turned a bit anyway.

It's the butyric acid they use. The same chemical that gives human vomit its smell.

Make more school administrators have to sign off on the report, and make them subject to criminal prosecution (perhaps perjury?) it turns out that they're under-reporting.

The fear of a disgruntled lower-level employee blowing the whistle and getting them charged with a crime might be enough to keep them honest.

All it would take is a ruling that their "contractors" are employees. At that point, they're just a taxi service employing drivers, and they have to follow 100% of the rules, including labor laws.

Dear Future-Underemployed-and-Indebted-Graduate Smith . . .

I'm sure he's got an equally terrible way of referring to African-American GOP members of Congress.

There's a reason that liability insurance carriers considered greek organizations one of the worst insurance risks in the country, only one rung ahead of hazardous waste hauling companies.