No mate, just pointing out her mother seems to be employing her in a nerdy-version of the old trained monkey routine for the benefit her own naively ill-informed pretensions to having birthed a genius.

It doesn’t appear she’s understanding what she’s reading, her mind is essentially wandering at the very pace of her pronouncement of the words.

I have news for you, this is the attitude of rich people towards poor people, and is more or less widely accepted by society "as the way things are"—and perhaps it isn't entirely unjustified; after all, such unbridgeable differences can be uncomfortable or even wore.

This is the reason why:

The New Republic deserves praise for its brave and honest take on gay situation in Sochi: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116548…

In many public buildings (namely, universities) in Western Europe, the rest rooms are either not provisioned with toilet paper and soap, or one has to pay extra for them (not to mention for use of the public facilities themselves).

I just hope Ali the Cuddler doesn't end up meeting Jack the Ripper.

Apropos picture—Obama is too afraid of the CIA, Kennedy wasn't enough. http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/renege…

And this was before the bomb hit, civilization collapsed, and Mad Max appeared on the scene.

The problem is that chivalric energies have been destroyed; men sense that loss, as despairing and demoralized soldiers do the loss of a moral order in the chaos of war, and respond, not with remediation or abnegation, but with further abjection, with an adaptive conformity to the new demoralised and boundaryless…

Lets just go full kitsch and make them look like zombie patriots.

The James Dean of the pharaonic (or should that be, chariot) set.

I haven't seen the movie, but I suspect it's quite cloying (kind of like the essay I'm responding to). The stark reality is that if the roles had been reversed (and assuming they were economically compelled to have plantations) Africans would have been just as brutal to Europeans; just as historically Arabs and…

This is patent child abuse; so civilization worthy of the name has ever before made it a mass custom to play at being the being worst social monsters a society can produce (mass killers, killers of women); what next a game where children can play at being Ariel Castro?