Maybe some unobtrusive case would help? Otherwise, screw 'em. Given the wake-up call Apple gave the textbook market this week, the presence of iPads in class is just going to increase.

"Everyone is deserving of respect regardless of their personal beliefs." Not when their personal beliefs involve denigrating a minority. Nope.

Please tell me this is in New York somewhere. Share the wealth!

I loved Life of PI, and his new book was on my must-read list until my favorite reviewer gave it the literary equivalent of a knee to the groin, calling it dull and pretentious. Sadly, I'm really impressionable and moved on to something else...

I like Peter Reinhart's recipe: [www.101cookbooks.com] It rises overnight in the fridge—and then I usually take that ball of dough, divide it in four, and freeze the balls of dough separately. They thaw overnight easily, as long as they're in a covered bowl. (One-quarter of that big ball makes either a personal pizza…

Ah, an opportunity to tell my husband's favorite joke of all time:

Happy Birthday!

That's impressive! The first day or so is always the hardest. Sadly, I do this for about a day, and break down at the end of the day and rampage through the kitchen, mainlining sugar. But! Maybe I'll give it another try and commit, this time. :)

I could probably get my husband to eat brussels sprouts if I marketed them this way... Hmm.

In Athens, that's called getting "the Argus."

Yeowch. I sure hope it's legal to sell an organ by the time my hypothetical kids want to go to college. Or that I have enough organs to sell for a total of ~$50K x 4. Or that I can pipe the Feynman lectures in utero.

Tuition at (for example) Brown University is $40K for 2012. So...at an Ivy League school, it doesn't go very far. But I think Samantha stands to get full-ride offers from a bunch of places. Attagirl!

Same here. Unless it's violating the school's dress code, I feel like it's a pick-your-battles kind of thing, for parents. Every fiber of teenage existence is about pushing the envelope; the consequences of pushing it here aren't that big a deal, to me, compared to what's at stake in the larger battles.

They had shave ice the day before, so I'm willing to cut them some slack.

Never mind. ("Cancel" now means "Post away!," apparently.)

It's not that simple. For example, once you get past the secondary-school level, the ratio of women studying math at university in the Czech Republic to men is about 1:10.

Last time around (2008), Colbert's audience raised nearly $250K via DonorsChoose.org to benefit North Carolina and Pennsylvania classrooms. While the call to action now is simply to donate to the SuperPAC, it seems inevitable that he'll eventually redirect his audience to a similar charitable fund drive. The point of…

Are we talking dollars, here? 10K and 8K dollars?! There's no chance you mean 8-10K gummy bears or something, is there? My mind is blown.

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I'm plié-sed with the way things are going, too, if I chassé so, myself. You've really raised the barre, no Fokine around.