No, that´s not the issue. The issue is that, as a fellow parent, I thought you would have some empathy for an awful, fatal mistake. Have you never done something that could have gone horribly, horribly wrong?

This exact problem led to a rift between my brother and I that exists to this day. I haven´t spoken to him since December of 2012. My family has always owned guns responsibly, and used rifles for hunting, etc. Then Sandy Hook happened, and I was devastated as a fellow teacher, crying every day for a week when I…

I know this is odd and unreasonable, but I am actually a little afraid to return to the US because of things like this. I´m from Illinois, originally, but I met and married up a Viking in Iceland in 2011, and haven´t been back since (I´m not close to my family and have been busy building a career, both of my parents…

I totally get what you´re saying, even if the people below this post seem to have used your comment to grandstand with their thoughts on religion.

You´re a lovely person. Unfortunately, some people just don´t think like you do. Sigh.

Genuine LOL at pondering the plural of barfs. Thanks for that!

A fellow disabled person´s reaction to this beautifully written excerpt — How depressing that the woman who was nearby when he fell and broke his nose, obviously in great pain and need of help, still found time to be repulsed by his injury rather than being moved to help him. Maybe she did that also, but 'My God,…

Yes! That is the perfect way to describe it. Thanks for that!

Yeah, I can see that - that she asks for power in a way to end her suffering. The episode was brutal, emotionally, even without the demon scene. I really felt Vanessa´s sadness at being left alone when Mina was moving forward with her life and getting married. And later, her terrible regret for what she had done and…

How are you getting that? The scene begins like this:

I find it really disappointing that a few people are calling this scene rape. While it´s typical to see a woman suffering sexually at the hands of a demon or possessed dude in a show of this genre, I liked this episode because it was clearly NOT the case here. It completely changes the character of Vanessa from a…

They actually have this conversation before the sex occurs, so yes, she consented both verbally (saying yes) and physically (she moves to kiss him, he does not move his head toward her to take a kiss during this exchange, although he is in her face). You can argue if you like that she can´t given consent in the face…

Yeah, me, too. ParaNorman seemed like such a cliche from what was shown in the trailers (weird outcast develops weird social habits, I see dead people) that I thought, Oh, please.

And all the ones after it, too! Hee hee hee hee!

I´m a teacher and I´ve been using Classcraft since I heard about it after the original failed Kickstarter campaign a few years ago. I´ve used it in several situations, from teaching English Lit to 5-7 graders to an adapted version I made for an after-school activity for grades 3-7. I originally printed out the…

I was thinking that this was pretty interesting, but that I would never do this myself - I´m a terrible person in the morning and I don´t think I could handle all those colors as I´m trying to open my eyes. A single bright color might still be pretty, or a pattern with 2.

Yeah. I hate the whole concept of the Purity Ball and its surrounding rituals - blegh. I don´t know if this is the norm for all purity balls, but I´ve also heard there´s some kind of procession at the beginning or end of the dance where the dads line up with swords and the daughters walk under them, to symbolize that…

Amen, sister. It makes me think of all the stress I go through in my job and then I come home after a long day to read some story of a teacher who taped a kid to a wall or gave the boys in her class a lap dance.

According to what I was reading about this elsewhere, there is a form that one fills out to begin this process that has a simple checkbox for how much compensation you will be asking for - More than or Less than $25,000.

LOL Tourism is one of our biggest industries since the economic crash of 2008, so come on down!