Hope Michael has bulked up in the afterlife and Joe finds him there just waiting to be on the GIVING end of the ass-whoopings from here on out.

Just started a school garden at our tiny little school. Started it with my sixth graders, but I’ve been amazed at what a draw it is for everyone from the pre-K on up to the seniors! Interest in growing things does seem to be on the upswing, and maybe that means we are in for a future that is less grim and poisonous.…

In Ms. Markle’s case, it is her father’s side of the family that seems sketchy. Her mother has never seemed anything but polite and respectable in all the media circus that has surrounded her. The half-siblings from her father (at least the ones who’ve been picked up on by the media) seem to be a few bricks shy of a…

If, for spiritual absolution, part of the penance was to take responsibility for your actions and ALSO turn yourself in to face the legal penalty, I think it would turn the whole “confession” into something much more palatable. Make amends with God _and_ man for what you did. Not being familiar with the inner workings…

Good lord. This is a travesty of a school.

My students are MY KIDS, no matter what color, creed, gender, etc. I would fight a buzz saw for them. But I also know that it is part of my job, no matter whether they come from a household of idiots or a household that values respect, to SHOW them that it is not only their duty to respect others, but to also look out…

This is why no one with a grain of sense would EVER leave a bunch of middle school kids unsupervised, ESPECIALLY in a locker room. Even if a teacher/coach does not value and teach respect and responsibility, you would think they’d value having a job. The fact that this was allowed to happen is so wrong on so many…

As a (white) public school teacher in Texas, I have to agree with you. I also have to ask where in the hell their teachers/coaches were! The fact that these little shits were unsupervised not only long enough to perpetrate this, but also, apparently, regularly enough that they knew not to worry about anyone walking in…

LEAVE THE FIRE SWAMP IMMEDIATELY!

Help! Help! I’m being repressed!

Too few people are aware of The Armadillo Jackal, by Robert Earl Keen. Here you go:

It’s a pill bug. Where is it from?

The school I taught at six or seven years ago had the armadillo as a mascot. I kid you not. They also had a really melodic school song, but nobody knew the words. So I made some up:

Exactly! It is not a religious song! All the stuff on facebook, etc., where they post some AMAZING TALENT (who’s maybe six) warbling it out beautifully is CREEPY! Having Christian artists include it on Christian albums boggles the mind! It is a song about heartbreak and sex and disappointment written by a Jewish…

It’s as though there were three basic emotions the models could choose from: pissed as hell, somewhat terrified, and sooooo sad. Frankly, after a while, I was too absorbed in their facial expressions and wondering what the hell was happening to them backstage to focus on the clothes like I should.

Ew. Truly ew. Stepdad Gary does not even rate on any sort of ew-ometer compared to this.

That is _probably_ the case, but it also seems odd to me that people expected to see movers, or at least people helping them move, that day and saw only police cars instead.

I just am not sure at all what to think about Littlefinger, but whatever happens, I think his days of having any sort of power over Sansa et al are finished. He needs a good killing, I think, but I’m just not sure Sansa has gotten all the use out of him that she can get. The scene where Jon was acclaimed King in the…

I guess because I have read the novels and can’t get over thinking he’s off in a hole somewhere and not coming out any time soon, that never occurred to me. Bran + dragon would be good.

Fraternal twins tend to run on the maternal side. The tendency to superovulate is somewhat heritable. So . . . the dad being a fraternal twin might predispose his daughter to giving birth to fraternal twins, but his wife would have to carry a tendency to superovulate from her own side of the family for it to be a…