The school district budget is $372.6 million and the city budget is $342.3 million, so really he’s only asking for 2% and 3% percent, respectively. Its also just a starting point for negotiations, and he’ll probably end up settling for about 1% of what he’s asking for.

The school district budget is $372.6 million, so I think $5 million is barely enough to register with the school board, which is where it needs to register if anything is going to change. Also, he’ll probably end up settling for less than 1% of that.

Its just a starting point for negotiations, and it has to be enough that the city and school district officials notice it. The school district budget is $372.6 million and the city budget is $342.3 million, so $15 million is barely enough to register on their pie charts.

Its a negotiation... a ransom? Who the fuck is being kidnapped?

Are you kidding? European intervention began in the 1800s at the latest, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, is a direct consequence of the way the British “de-colonized” their territory in the Middle.

AFAIK nonrefundable means that you can’t exchange your tickets for their original cash price. It doesn’t mean that the company can take your money and do whatever they want – they still have an obligation to honor the tickets for the services advertised. I’m not a lawyer, nor have I read the fine print here, but if I…

Yes, but that was your fault – you can still use the tickets you buy, its your fault if you can’t go on those dates. If you did go on the dates you bought for, and they said you had to leave a day early because someone else died on the other side of the hotel... then wouldn’t you deserve your money back?

“I think this has a lot to do with people now being covered under the ACA” That’s exactly what’s going on!

You can struggle to make ends meet after having a great education. You can struggle to make ends meet while taking advantage of the doors opened to you so you can rise up to a better position in life. Its certainly much easier to struggle with a Yale-caliber education than without it, a fact that – trust and believe –…

Ok, I was talking about the students who don’t come from privilege... that’s literally word-for-word what I said. I’m not directly contradicting you, I’m pointing out that those who aren’t in the “majority” you mention.

Because its still a great education that opens doors... are you being deliberately obtuse?

“Almost all students residing there come from some sort of privilege” – and that’s exactly why the students who don’t come from privilege feel so alienated in such an incredibly privileged space. I didn’t go to Yale, but I went to a similarly prestigious school, and many of the students of color from poor families…

My first reaction was cynical too, but it sounds like he’s got real chops – even if the board picked him as a token. Maybe I just want to be hopeful...

I read about this earlier. Many, many students were emailing him. At first, his replies were pretty blasé like the one in the article. Later, he started offering to do make up exams. Even later, he just was like, “Fuck it I quit.”

I agree, the author doesn’t explain it at all and gives us no context or link to tell us more. Is that statement even related to this case or just Mizzou situation in general?

Wow that’s some terrible stuff – unabashed transphobia and beating her boyfriend. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised given MMA culture, but its still sad.

How is she “kind of a dick”? Genuinely curious, I don’t know much about her

So many trans, lesbian, and gay people have done SO MUCH MORE for queer rights. Obama just did the bare minimum that any Democratic president would have done: he pandered to the bigotry in ‘08 as political strategy, then flipped after Biden tested the waters in ‘12. He’s a shrewd strategist, I’ll give him that, but…

Yes – especially when it comes to sex! Maybe we need a pill for honesty ;)

This is a fake pill for a fake problem. Libido is too complex of a psychological issue to be resolved with a single pill. Drug companies have just been trying to invent this “problem”: they claim that as much as 80% of women have “female sexual dysfunction” because they’ve had sex and not reached orgasm at some point…