This is why I never (almost never) watch interviews with celebrities. So many of them are stupid, or boring. I simply do not want to be disappointed in this man I find to be one of the hottest out there.

My God, you’re right! How could I have missed the signs??

No. His co-writer was an Army lawyer. This guy was a poet. MFA Hunter College, Yale Younger Poet prize finalist. It’s in the article linked to his name in Jordan’s post.

Further proof: her shoes coordinate with his pants. He was clearly in on it with her the whole time. Longest con.

I think she’s a fair bit smaller now than she was when all this came about. Plus, those jackets are sort of sized large, larger and largest, IIRC.

Jesus, that woman is aging backwards.

Nah, he switched index cards. Without even looking at them and with scarcely a pause, which tells me he was totally prepared to for being asked not to continue in that vein. Hm.

That gif never doesn’t make me guffaw.

I like how all the kids are wearing helmets except the big boy.

Once you hit school sports, you have the same issue - they don’t care if you’re 13 or 15 as a freshman; you’re still a freshman and eligible for 4 years of play, you just likely have an advantage if you’re the 15 year-old.. I know lots of folks who held their (almost always boy) kids back a year so they’d be bigger…

Why not both?

“Effectively extinct”? Someone tell the tribe: www.gabrielinotribe.org. I’m sure they appreciate being “effectively” erased by you. I think this qualifies as irony.

What do you mean, “gets away with that one”? They sure as hell do, and yes, that makes them rapists.

Nor is there a national panic when kids watch a movie or documentary that depicts someone other than white people being violent. The abhorrent fear and intolerance range the full spectrum.

Yes, and that applies (should apply) irrespective of any of those students’ political or religious or what-have-you sensibilities. I also think - since many students, again, of all viewpoints, don’t seem to get it - that there is also a think called classroom decorum (the student version of professionalism), which…

Ha, I’m not sure what part I was responding to, either, on re-reading! I think we are in agreement :-)

It is almost uniformly provided in workplace orientations, though, at least at companies large enough to understand the downside of not providing that. I’ve only worked (in my adult, professional life) for really large companies, or law firms, but that stuff was front and center Day 1, with training and quizzes and…

I actually don’t see it like that; I consider a safe space to be a place where people voluntarily go , with the understandings both that they can trust the other people and that they need to be worthy of the others’ trust. The price of admission, if you will. That’s not (necessarily) excluding people. It does,…

I’ll buy that some conservative students have co-opted or are trying to co-opt the lingo, but they are trying to co-opt it from extreme liberal students who have pushed it beyond a valid use. “Safe space” didn’t start with conservatives.

I’ve seen those warnings in class listings. Usually they are (correctly) followed by a statement that if these things are too difficult for a student, they should not take the class.