One time while driving home from Florida we (me, wife and 4 year old daughter) were heading west on I-10 somewhere past Beaumont where there is basically nothing around. My daughter says “daddy I have to go #2” and of course, there is no place in sight. After 15 minutes or so she’s crying because she has to go so bad…

outside of Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop” and Tweet’s “Oops Oh My” rarely has self-pleasure resounded so brightly

We’re not quite sure what Selena did to get arrested, but it was all for her latest music video, as Selena repeated the scene several times.

“The vast majority of Americans agree what Planned Parenthood is doing is wrong.”

Remember that time Mythbusters used sterile chips, sterile dip, a sterile room, and a medical professional to eliminate the variables of double dipping? Turns out the bacterial difference from the saliva is almost nill.

Each troop determines its own activities focus, so no, it isn’t hard at all. All they need is one parent to start a new troop.

Thank you for adding some context. That’s all important information to know. I’m still not convinced the master’s (ugh) tone-deafness amounts to a fire-able offense. But it’s true that I’m not familar with this kind of university role, since I went to a huge public university.

The tradition of calling them “masters” has nothing to do with slavery. It stems from medieval universities where teachers had the title master (Latin: magister) from the degree required to hold that post. The title came to Yale through the traditions of Oxford and Cambridge (both medieval foundations), which the…

You know what may have happened? In the course of researching a more recent story, this probably came up in the process, and maybe ... things got mixed up a bit? It would seem logical to reference an earlier, similar case to show a pattern ...

Uh; this story is from early 2014 from the date on the linked article. I thought it sounded familiar, and thought “Hey are these guys STILL at it, assaulting female joggers?”, but no, it’s the story from Feb. 24/2014.

The idea that somehow she should still be allowed to teach, despite not meeting state standards, because it was their mistake is baffling. If a hospital hired a nurse that was not properly certified, would anyone expect them to keep that nurse on their staff? No, of course not!

Yea, the payment problem is another issue entirely so I have no idea what to make of that. The wording of it, “highly qualified,” seemed to me like something the licensing board came up with and not the school (like an official designation on the paperwork or whatever). When she taught 4th grade, it was in a different…

Yes. In my state it doesn’t matter if you are the greatest teacher who ever lived. You need to have the proper cert for the age/subject you are teaching. It’s unclear from this article whether the district shifted her to a class she wasn’t certified to teach or whether she applied for a completely new job. But either…

So this article is a little confusing. After reading the AL.com report, it sounds like they weren’t saying she wasn’t “qualified,” just that she wasn’t “certified” to teach 5th Grade. In this case, that’s apparently true, since her certification covered her through 3rd Grade. If Federal requirements for funding are…

I don’t know if that’s true. I feel like she’s made mistakes. You watch her struggle as the parent of a teenager, she married Teddy (woah, big mistake), she called off a huge multi-media publicity wedding the day off (which is like, super scandalous), and she’s back together with her recovering alcoholic baby daddy…

I read the story 3 times trying to see where the connection was to Congress. I’m just going to give the benefit of the doubt here that it was a Freudian slip of sorts, and not that someone who is covering politics for Jezebel doesn’t know that state legislators are not called congressmen.

They are state representatives or legislators/state lawmakers... not congressmen.

Ugh, gross. I would not want it to be so soap-operaish and convenient. I think there are a frillion more creative reasons she could be so protective. Though... she did go on and on about how infertile she was. Hm.

That’s EXACTLY what I proposed to my friends last night in our group chat. It would (handily) explain how he got into the school last-minute from the wait-list, and is so freaking untouchable.

Never knew this existed!
Shit. Thanks for sharing!

It’s funny, because in addition to the more popular video version that you mention, there’s also the album version of the song where she sounds like she’s crying. I love that one.