I taught eighth grade at an inner city school, and I saw (and experienced) nightmarish amounts of bullying and cruelty. But I don't think that all bullies are hopeless cases, or that bullying is an insurmountable problem for a school to deal with. I do NOT think that bullying is an inevitable part of growing up,…

I just like to point out there's no such thing as harmless racism. We still have Republicans in Arkansas defending slavery. When good people don't stand up and demand that the racist stop spreading their hate, it festers into this:…

Totally agree. It's rare that anyone has parents who can foot the bill for their years messing around in New York.

The Republican Party is made up of angry, racist Southern white men who desperately want everyone to go back to doing whatever they say. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_spectator/2012/10/is_the_republican_party_racist_how_the_racial_attitudes_of_southern_voters_bolster_its_chances_.html

Erma and Jim lived in an affordable two bedroom house behind the SAFECO nuclear facility. Then a bizarre accident somehow genetically melded Erma's beloved cat, Princess Lovebug, with the weeds from her overgrown garden. Princess Lovebug survived with her affectionate personality intact, but the reproductive…

I think you completely misunderstand what fantasy games are about—it's creative fun that you have with good friends: http://thewiseserpent.blogspot.com/2012/07/dungeons-and-dragons-fun-and-creative.html. As for escaping the real world, every time you read a novel, watch a movie or TV show, you are escaping from the…

This might be the best parody I have ever seen. Hilarious!

So true. Admitting to being a racist to most decent people is like admitting to drowning kittens. Of course she's not going to be openly racist, even though she obviously has a problem with Obama's race.

So the football players rip through the bible-verse signs, and then presumably stomp on them as they're running out on the field? I'd think an atheist would find that hilarious!

I taught 8th grade English in an poverty-stricken urban school district. Middle school kids are so evil I used to wonder if they were possessed by the devil—and I'm an atheist. Remember that video of the boys tormenting the poor bus monitor? That was what it was like teaching those kids everyday. I hope that most…

If that's the case, than the internet only made things worse by calling so much attention to this dad's one insensitive comment, especially one that he's likely going to forget about once his younger son is able to do stuff, too.

This is a great article. I love games, but I never play online because of the nastiness there. I think games will really thrive once they feel like a safe space.

If you think all the children meet developmental milestones, think again. I teach music at a preschool, so I see a lot of children. Sadly, we had one child in our twos group who had not met most of the milestones, which is a sign of severe disability. His parents are taking him to a specialist so he can get a…