As a pale freckled person (thanks, Irish heritage!), Kimby’s skin made me gasp outloud. Her chest screams skin cancer. Friends, take your sun precautions seriously. I’m 31 with over a dozen aunts and uncles - ALL of them had some variety of skin cancer by their 40s. Sun screen is your friend, please wear it. You don’t…

I WILL come at you. I only came to this comment section to confirm how terrible Halo Top is. It is absolute trash, and not an ice cream substitute. It’s more like a styrofoam substitute. I don’t understand why people rave about it. Would rather eat a little regular ice cream than a larger amount of Halo Top. Or really…

I’m an entomologist and I work with that beautiful specimen you have pictured, Ae. aegypti. To maintain a colony in the lab, I will sometimes have to feed them by sticking my arm into a cage and letting them go to town. My best advice to avoid getting a reaction is to NOT SCRATCH no matter how much they itch. Once you…

Now I don’t know much about Steve King but he appears to be a caricature of conservitism. Now I have read enough Stephen King to know that he is clearly being controlled by a far more cunning and insidious puppet master who I think is really Randall Flagg.

Purely anecdotal, but I heard zero kids discussing this show before the school board sent out panicky letters to parents. Now they’ve all seen it.

This is a really thoughtful, well-written piece. Young people are capable of consuming media critically, and for those of us who are adults (however much of a technicality that feels like) should be giving them the tools to do that, instead of simply hand-wringing over it.

The coal industry fucked our home state hard.

I’m glad my office door is closed.

Clinton supporters, literally, have no idea what this means.

I’d always do that hand motion when I needed to point out different locations in the state to visitors. It was like a little map and joke all rolled into one.

Also, a short but succinct article by Sarah Jones on the Democratic Party reaction to coal country voting patterns:

This article should be on the front page of The New York Times.

Democrats forgot the group for whom they were supposed to be working. They switched from actual workers to corporations.

Now now, please, proper terminology. Its the National Socialist Kinjan Workers’ Party.

Honestly, in the case of Mercer Co.... another class in real education material wouldn’t have mattered. About 15% or so of the class was African American. The racism was so rampant as far as I know only 2 went to college afterwards because of lack of encouragement from our school system. That being said, the…

Just tried to say I can field questions about this program from personal experience. But hey, fuck me for offering, am I right?

Most of the schools in Mercer co are closed campus, which means you can’t do early dismissal unless approved by the BOE. For the elementary kids, they don’t have ‘periods’, so it’d just be the last chunk of the day. For the middle/jr high school kids (it was Junior High when I lived there), you could do the last…

I’m a graduate of both Mercer co WV schools AND this particular Bible Study class. Go ahead - ask me anything you like :)

I already know that I am going to hell.