The fact that you’re aware that you have to change the locks is probably a sign that breaking up is the right thing here. Also, I get that it’s difficult to get some distance and look objectively at the faults of people when you’re close to them and care about them and separate the innocent flaws from the toxic ones.…

Read that as “I nearly choked on my dick” and...wow. Skills.

Inspirational quotes for the day:

You don’t want to see how “the sausage is made,” as it were ...

Cynic checking in. I’m having a shit week.

Christ, no. That’s the last thing I want. I hate myself.

If their claim is that makeup is a disguise, they would also refuse any women wearing makeup. o.O That’s some pretty damn clear bias.

My mom died 12 years ago, after 27 years of marriage to my dad. For many years now he's been dating a friend of his, and recently gave her an engagement ring (though he's told me there's no plan to do more than that for the time being; among other things, she's divorced and there are child support implications…

My mom died in 2007 after many years of poor health. My dad -although grieved - had been through the ringers caring for my mom and essentially managing her slow inevitable death. Two months later, he’s hooked up with another widower he’d known (through business partners) for years. Then we’re out golfing one day and…

Probably because even if a judge ruled in his favor, he wouldn’t get a lot of money out of a college student. Columbia, however, is another matter entirely.

Maybe I’m not understanding this correctly, but why doesn’t he just sue her for slander? I mean if he’s claims he’s innocent, of course

“Fact: Unless you are a professional paleontologist, any six-year-old child in America can absolutely humiliate you at dinosaur trivia.”
I teach 4th and 5th grade girls science after-school. Truer words have never been spoken, Kelly. I am shamed by my lack of dinosaur knowledge on a daily basis.

How are you even allowed to write on this subject after you were exposed to be a petulant child with no ability to reason logically after the UVA hoax?

You are a killjoy, but you are also right.

Just so grateful I don’t teach anymore. My students were always pretty chill, but I wouldn’t want to catch THE one on a bad day.

Kansas allows guns on campus now. The schools appear to be exempt at the moment but the legislators thought students were safer allowing students to carry on campus. My state is stupid.

Exactly. Last time I checked, both the unemployment and poverty rates on the reservation are off the map. America has no shame.

I had a situation in a class a couple of years ago (Uni level; 2nd year) where a girl who wore a hijab asked to change between two of my units - the one she was doing was basic feminist identity politics and she wanted to move into a sexual representations one - because she felt the class she was in was really hostile…