Counterpoint: It's people who make the world both fucked up and awesome. If everyone said, "This shit sucks and I don't want anyone else to experience tragedy," we'd never have landed on the moon or cured many diseases or figured out how to make cheesecake. If everyone opted out, we wouldn't have Eleanor Roosevelts or…

I wouldn't even say that it's a decent measurement of whether or not someone is "book smart", a big part of it is just showing that some people are better (multiple choice) test takers than others. There are hardly ever significant essay portions to these exams and some kids who are brilliant in one subject might…

Bad at standardized tests = not book smart, but you don't necessarily need to be book smart to be successful.

I think I have a little something in my eye.

I think the fact that the African American woman here is instantly recognizable as FLOTUS and a Princeton/Harvard-educated BigLaw partner shines a new light on the absurdity that was school segregation. Also, given Michelle Obama's enormous success, the photo asks the viewer to ponder how many similarly able women…

Zing?

What about a giant meteor hitting the earth? I mean, Im not for total annihilation, but we got bigger things to worry about today.

Trust that segregation is still around in many areas of the country. It's just not as overt as it used to be. Look at most of the demographics for inner-city public schools.

That is people exercising their first amendment right to protest, though. Segregation was the opposite, a denial of rights to millions.

What about the price of eggs in Baltimore?

What about the price of eggs in Baltimore?

Jokey dark comment, but based on some of the news I've seen lately, the US probably did them a favor by helping them leave.

This! There are a lot of replies attributing their behavior to the possibility of food, but they'll gather around anything unusual that isn't openly threatening. You stand around in a pasture doing nothing but chewing and pooping, you get bored.

This isn't that impressive when you realize that if you just go walk up to a fence with a bunch of cows, they eventually all come over to see what's going on/if you have food/dog/anything.

Not to get on your bad side, but there's absolutely no guarantee that your son will not want an over-the-top princess-for-a-day(-or more) destination wedding that so many brides want. ;) But here's hoping, right? (P.S. I have a son too, and those were some of my first thoughts when I found out I was having a…

Evidently I chose my feet. Having worn ugly comfy shoes most of my life I have the feet of teenager.

Amazon book reviews are amazing. A former professor of mine has a book about Egyptian Christian magic in the 1st through 3rd centuries CE, and one of the Amazon reviewers took stars off because he didn't explain clearly enough how to actually cast the spells.