Keeps you on your toes, too. Chicago has lots of tall buildings, lots of snow, and a lot of ways for snow to melt, refreeze, and face gravity. So a winter walk downtown is a dance with death as you watch for icicles to fall from the skyscrapers onto your head. If you've ever wondered what it's like to live in fear of…

This wasn't a great job. This wasn't even a decent job. Why did we need to be told about this, when Darkmateria's "The Picard Song" is infinitely superior, despite being 14 years older?

Now, now. Even Texas doesn't charge 10-year-olds as adults.

My favorite Ms. Wormwood moment:

I'm a fan of the Christmas Eve poem one:

I'm going to whip out my gay-card and disagree with you. I don't like being complicit in falsehoods if I can avoid it, and I really don't like people trying to make me fit in their boxes. When I get asked the girlfriend question by people who don't know me well, I feel like I'm being forced into a decision: lie (why…

Open carry is one of the most ludicrously provocative things I can imagine. The only reason to do it is to freak people out. In a real "bad-guy-with-a-gun" emergency (the fantasy of all paranoid gun-owners), you definitely don't want the bad guy to know who to shoot first.

You have a real problem misinterpreting what people say. The only person being a consistent asshole in this thread is you. Beyond that, no, I am not saying people should only know about things they learn in school. I am saying that if someone says they don't know about something, it's an opportunity to educate them,…

Yes, people should know about it. That doesn't mean that you get to be an asshole to people who don't, especially if it didn't come up in their history classes.

TGoEE, you are being unreasonable, and everyone is calling you on it. Admit that you were wrong and take your lumps.

Till's death gets a lot of attention because kids latch onto that story, and because it demonstrates the depth of Southern apartheid in its willingness to use violence against children. However, it's typical to go through the MIBURN murders quickly, because yes, they are a sideline part of Freedom Summer. There isn't…

I work in a district where the Till murder still gets plenty of discussion. It's the better part of a class period, since that's a story that can resonate with HS-age audiences.

Twinks for everyone? Don't tell Idiotking. He'll steal them all.

I visited Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Madjanek in 1990. My god.

It's a neat theory, except that Gorbachev was already using glasnost as a term at the end of 1984, and Chernobyl cooked off in 1986. It is true, though, that Chernobyl was one of the demonstrations of Soviet failure, and Gorbachev was no longer to pretend that such things didn't happen.

Yahoo News will meet the needs of your perverse craving, in spades. And then enough extra to make you want to vomit.

I admit I'm not familiar with that example. German flips the indirect and direct objects when both are pronouns, as follows:

Signor, German doesn't use SOV, except in dependent clauses.

Now, now, be fair to the new movie. This particular scene is nowhere near as poorly-written as, say, 70% of JP3.

Could they digitally insert some interesting dialogue, too?