Um, do you get how taxes work?  Teachers can deduct up to $250 in educator expenses.  A deduction means that they are not taxed on that portion of their income.  It does NOT mean that they get a credit back from the government for that expenditure.

I like that Mare of Easttown presented her as hot, though. Like, she was lusted after by her way-younger colleague and sexy writing prof Guy Pierce. I hate when shows/movies expect the audience to accept that an absurdly beautiful actress is undesirable because her character wears frumpy clothes and has bad highlights.

Clarissa Explains it All is Melissa Joan Hart’s greatest gift to mankind.

Don’t forget Walder and the Freys in the pie!

Pro-tip: Reveal before naked and horny but AFTER kissing/touching/moving in that direction at some point in the relationship.

The ACLU makes an app called mobile justice so you can record police encounters and immediately send to the ACLU if they come at you all crazy. It also has info on your rights and how to deal with police. Download it! Police the police!

Hi five back! I agree with you completely. Doubt is reasonable, but that doesn't make belief unreasonable or unreasoned! Practicing faith is complicated and real and important.

I think maybe the "stories as metaphors" thing doesn't mean what you think it means - at least not for all people of faith. As an evolutionary-biology-loving every-Sunday-and-then-some churchgoing Episcopalian, I want to pipe up and say that I don't see the Bible as metaphor in the way that I see Animal Farm as…