::tries to make obvious Trump joke::
::gets mental image of cat in Trump toupé::
::trying to decide if adorable or terrifying::
…

"Something I notice in those stories of heroic educators—no life. One principal was sleeping in her office because going home to shower took so much time she could be pouring into the school. It's really not a viable model."

I am one of those! An independent and an academic. I have no idea what they'd do with me. Not to mention people who are actually third-party registered (Green, Libertarian, etc.) which I can imagine might be higher in academia than the general population.

Well, wealthier people have been using private schools in order to avoid "bad elements" in public school forever. Charter schools let less-wealthy people do the same, so it's hard to begrudge them that opportunity. The problem is, of course, that it leaves "the bad element" to be educated in traditional schools, and…

I just… I'm an academic and I have so many things to say about this.

"Jason Chafetts has announced that he is launching an investigation into a tweet feom a national park congratulating Bears Ears on being designated a national monument, claiming that an attached picture showing a mail slot labeled "Bears Ears" indicated the possibility of advanced notice being given to someone,…

First, I would like to say that in the course of reading your sarcastic examples, I stopped to imagine a cat-tree wedding, and it was delightful. Outdoors of course, officiated by Smokey the Bear, saucers of milk for all during the reception, a cat in a tiny tuxedo, the tree all dressed up in white… I just think I…

Rachel Maddow is the person people bring up when they're desperately trying to false-equivalent Fox News with a "left" counterpart. The reality is that no mainstream news outlet is as extremely/consistently/blindedly left as Fox is on the right.

I just learned a lot from that. Thanks!

My favorite quote: "This[animosity towards the press] isn’t unprecedented in U.S. history, though you might have to go back to the Administration of John Adams to see something quite like it."

Sad upvote. Again. ::makes 425,987th sad-upvote notch in desk since election::

*Greatness only valid for straight, white, Christian men who voted Republican [and who apparently can survive by drinking coal-sludge-poisoned water on a planet averaging temperatures beyond human endurance, because they don't seem to care about any of those things]

::pedantry ahoy:: Well, Les Miserables the book is Romantic in the capital-R, technical-term-for-a-movement-in-art-in-19th-century-Europe sense.

I will happily watch a Christmas movie entitled Rando Santa. Or buy Rando Santa's album if they are an indie band. I'm not sure which one it is yet.

Honestly, I don't know how you can get away with letting mining companies dump coal leavings into streams without literally turning into a villian from an old-timey melodrama. Like someone get Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell some mustaches, stat, so that they can twirl them in a surly manner.

I would like the record to show that while Matlock is good too I am specifically upvoting for Murder She Wrote ;)

For Grace, Hallmark “stands for legitimate family values. What I mean by that is—if you have a child, you don’t have to worry about changing the channel when they come in the room.”

"Salad dressing, I think. But for some reason I don't want to eat it."

Token boy? Logan? General vicinity of Nashville resulting in dreamy accent we always hear about in Chapter 2? Next you'll be telling me he likes Mary Anne!

In my happy alternate reality that I go to in my mind sometimes, Elizabeth Warren is already president. So there's one.