Maybe there should just be a special GOP candidate edition of “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?”. Although they’d probably whine that those were “gotcha” questions, too.

I don’t know if she was pregnant. Probably, but I didn’t know her very well. I do know she was very poor, and I don’t think it was rare enough for the news to care. That, and pre-social media, I’m not sure how they’d have found out unless someone specifically tipped them off the old-school way. Also, it was legal at…

I’m actually surprised that I only (personally) know two girls who were married while we were in school together. One, at least, was 18 and got married just a few weeks before graduation (and is now divorced). The other, though, was about 13, and we were in middle school. I remember that freaking me out when it…

When I was working at Target in 2000, we found three SNES systems (including a Zelda edition) in the electronics backstock room. They’d been clearanced to $10. That was a fun day.

It’s nice to see the ASAN logo on their website, too, and not Autism Speaks. Although their “About” section seems to equate autism with diseases, like cancer, diabetes, and AIDS, which isn’t exactly accurate.

No driver’s ed in the schools where I grew up, but we did the private school for the insurance discount. Since I already had my license, the instructor just had me drive her around town to run her errands. I do recall that, in the time before cell phones, we had a lot of 16-year-old kids in the county die in car…

What I find hilarious (in that so-not-funny-it’s-awful way) is that my most Islamophobic relatives are the ones who want the US to run on religious laws. It’s exactly what they think Muslims want, except, you know, the Christian version.

Interestingly, we were never taught the KKK ties to the Stone Mountain carving in the public schools near the park. I didn’t learn those until I was (temporarily) a history major at a Florida university.

Or, as was taught in nearby middle schools, “we take Stone Mountain for granite, but it’s really gneiss”.

“Bare Minimum Pope”?

“Stonewall Uprising” on PBS. It’s up on Amazon Prime video (American Experience series).

Honestly, this isn’t very different from the crap I heard about Clinton in the 1990s from my extreme-right family members. They didn’t call him a Muslim, but they were convinced he was secretly Black, because why else would he be liberal? I guess? They’re crazy. They were also convinced he was the antichrist. Similar…

As soon as our bed is clear, our boss kitty sprawls out in the middle of it and refuses to share with the other cats. I’m pretty sure she’d try it on a bed like the one in the pic, too.

Maybe she’s from the same line as Vicki.

It doesn’t help that the people taking your money (waitstaff or cashiers) often feel the need to comment if you DO split the check. Frequently, when Mr. Fist of the Pon Farr and I pay for our own food, there’s some comment about how he’s not paying for my food. I’ve actually had counter service denied in the the form…

I wasn’t allowed to watch The Golden Girls as a kid because it was too “liberal and racy”. So, my mother figured it out? Yay.

It’s technically an extension of the Boy Scouts, as in I paid Boy Scout dues even though not a boy. It’s supposed to give students an idea of what it’s like to be a cop. Certainly dissuaded me.

Metro Atlanta area, actually.

When I was a police explorer in high school, the local cops used the explorer troops as a dating pool, basically. It was incredibly fucked up.

Seriously - someone just lost half an arm to a gator on the Wekiva River (and a swimsuit, but that mattered at lot less). Made the news in Jax, even.