Maybe if you make a twitter now and bug them enough, you could get the komodo included next year

The Gila Monster is an inside joke from last year. They’re included because they have the best twitter: https://twitter.com/gilamonsterasu

the same can be said of eggs and milk. Honey is vegetarian but it is not vegan.

My (public) high school had an alternative program attached to the regular school. It was a very flexible solution, because “alternative” students could take regular-system electives that benefit from the larger student body, like band/orchestra.

Congressmen, old people, and military service members and their families also buy their food with your money. Do you follow them around too?

that’s adorable!

The grass is always greener on the other side of the US/Canada border

ALL of those are Netflix originals. They just do a pretty good job of segregating the kid stuff from the adult stuff so we don’t have to bother learning what a “Luna Petunia” is

Excuse me, this post needs a “spoilers” tag because some of us are not that far in The Crown yet!

Rat Terrier + Rabbit: if it makes you feel better and/or vindicated, that rabbit definitely died of internal injuries and/or shock within the next 30 minutes.

DC is a very well-planned city with a very strict street-naming system and none of these things apply.

I always have popsicles in my freezer and those are pretty handy for indicating whether the freezer warmed up

Ooh, just what I’ve always wanted, someone to mansplain menstrual cups to me.

It depends on what your main concern is. If you’re concerned about the vendor stealing your credit card #, then cash is best. If you’re concerned about needing to get a refund for some reason, then credit card is best.

The Hill =/= DC

Here’s a fantastic article on the topic. I first read it a few years ago and I still think about it often:

No! If I fell while wearing a sousaphone I would have hurt a lot more than my butt!

I was in the marching band at a college with a high-ranked NCAA football team. I think the game was on ESPN but they probably didn’t show the halftime show. The grass was wet and I was on the 50-yard line about 5 yards from the sideline and I had to switch from marching forward to backward very quickly and I slipped…

I used to be afraid of falling and then once I fell in front of 60,000 people and no one cared and so now I don’t care either.

I have no problem with the term “homeschooling” and my argument is not about that at all, nor is it about only one parent educating their own children. What we currently call “homeschooling”, no matter what name it is called, is eschewing one division of labor in which the people performing the labor are experts in…