The ideal solution would be to have the teacher escort the rest of the class to another location (like the library or an empty classroom) and hopefully continue the lesson there. Then the police officer can continue to use de-escalation techniques for a while longer. I’ve seen/heard of situations where this goes on…

I have two cats, so I got two beds and bought white sheets for one and orange sheets* for the other. My cats will just have to learn which one they’re allowed on!

“So Much Better" is my go-to song for when I need to kick ass and take names.

Yep. Unpaid training periods for workers with (not just intellectual) disabilities are legal and astonishingly common. I’ve been to disability job fairs in my city and a lot of places are allowed to pay us subminimum wage too.

I try this trick approximately once a year (I live upstairs in my parents’ house). Now 90% of my belongings are in baskets at the top of the stairs.

I’m so glad they make lower profile versions now. I still feel like a horrifying reverse vampire spewing blood everywhere when I leave the house in them, but at least I’m communicating that fact to fewer people.

Yep. I get amazing scores on these types of tests, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s because I watch a ton of TV and thus have gotten the chance to study actors’ expressions closely. It doesn’t help me out at all in real life. When I’m watching actors, they aren’t watching me back and trying to interact with me.

My guess is they’re talking about the arthropod also known as the “harvestmen” — which is a terrifying name for an arthropod and sounds like it should be the subject of an urban legend where they steal your organs for the black market.

Dude, I have tiny breasts (well, one is tiny, the other is moderately sized and it’s annoying and I hate it) and they still sweat like crazy. I’m super jealous of this woman and her nice dry breasts.

Social security is a terrible liberal thing that needs to be cut — when it’s given to anyone other than a Republican. Because they worked hard and earned theirs, duh.

I was hoping this would be a line of clothing designed specifically to provide the kind of deep pressure stimulation that tends to soothe people on the autism spectrum. I would totally go for that.

Yep. They’re often called country-style mashed potatoes. They’re good!

Ugh, I had a friend who only used two dots. It was infuriating. I was constantly like IS THAT AN ELLIPSIS OR A TYPO?

Not defending that at all — but I wonder if it's an autocorrect fail? Last week my phone corrected “THANK YOU” to “THANK TX UZBEKISTAN OZ UZBEKISTAN U.” Somehow being in capslock made it even more hilarious.

As an educator in Texas, our school districts have been on my shit list for years.

Seriously, how did religion become a “get out of jail free” card for illegal and unethical behavior? We don’t accept “my religion tells me to kill non-believers” as an excuse for murder. We don’t make laws saying it’s okay to rob or rape or torture someone if your sincerely held religious belief is that they deserve…

My mom was a bookstore manager, so I got to grow up in “the back.” It was awesome.

This thing of policing women’s pitch makes me so damn angry. I’m in speech therapy right now paying someone to help me restore my natural pitch, because years of speaking too low have truly fucked up my vocal cords. It especially pisses me off that this is happening in the medical field, where people should know…

Let's take it up a notch: The Matrix with all the male roles played by women, and all the female roles played by cats.

Thank you. The largest I’ve ever been was a size 14, and even at my heaviest (180 lbs, with a BMI in the 29+ range, and over 50% of my weight coming from body fat, which I know thanks to a humiliating weigh-in at the gym I joined), most of my loved ones would have objected to me calling myself fat. My dad constantly…