They couldn’t come up with a better excuse than “fostering discussion” and “not what we would have done”? The school already has the right to yank scholarships for non-participation, there’s no reason that sports participation should make that mandatory. They aren’t trying to get rid of the other protesters.

I think it’s the founding Puritan idea that bad things only happen to bad people, and they must deserve it. Godly, hardworking, tough (etc) people don’t have bad things happen (except faith-testing challenges of course).

I always wondered what was downstairs from Hollywood Upstairs Medical School.

Convincing people to rush into making life altering decisions Under pressure, that’s responsible and praise worthy. /sarcasm

Personally, I’m a little more concerned about what other medical waste might be disposed of inappropriatly. Aborted Fetuses sounds dramatic, but it’s about whether funeral rites for something that was never human. Landfill wildlife picking over potentially infected tissues is a health issue.

Not shooting Whitman doesn’t make them unhelpful. It’s the lack of any assistance (and proof of harm) provided by their actions that makes them unhelpful. You are right, that is an important distinction — even those who think they are successfully providing back-up are prolonging and worsening the situation.

While this is a scientific break through its unlikely to have a big influence on domestic dog breeding. Artificial insemination is cheaper, widely used, and well understood. A few breeds like pugs and English Bulldogs depend on AI as they cannot reproduce naturally. In rare breeds, it may be the only thing protecting…

Because it would be a public service to gather them up, play the sound of a gun shot, and watch them all pull weapons and shoot each other?

Except that suppressive fire from uncoordinated and questionably trained civilians also endangers bystanders and keeps first responders pinned down. Also makes it difficult for police to determine who is the ‘bad guy with the gun’ when the behavior is exactly the same as the ‘good guys with guns’.

She's essentially complaining that there are an insufficient number of comforting lies being taught to children.

Yes!

Me too. I wonder if it’s that I can’t unlink the story from the picture of his face, or if it’s some buried detect-a-serial-killer type instinct kicking in.

But the reason defense attorneys do it is because the strategy works. If a jury looked at the blame the victim approach with even the same pinch of salt as political attack ads then the strategy wouldn’t be such a sure winner.

Changing the narrative and believing in body diversity and renaming things so that the stigma will be momentarily removed — yeah, that’s all great. I’m not looking for a revolution, I just want a comfy sweater that doesn’t have anything cowl or asymmetrical about it.

He might just be trying to get the top google result for ‘Santorum’ to be something else.

“Respect for stay-at-home mothers has been poisoned by a toxic combination of the village elders’ war on the traditional family and radical feminism’s misogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect.’’

Be prepared, that first set of grades is going to be lower than you’d expect (though not to the point of failing!) just because of the adjustment crap. Probably saw that when he started prep school too.

Ugh, the first set of grades. No one does as well in their first semester as they expect. Too much adjusting going on. Pretty terrifying when it happens though, I thought I was going to have to drop out and work at Walmart because I got a C for the first time.

My mom said she actually worried less when I was away at college than when I was in high school because there wasn’t anything specific to worry about. It’s harder to pin your worry on something when you don’t have the details of someone’s schedule. So maybe that’s something to look forward to? Good luck.

Classes are only part of a college schedule. There are extracurricular obligations (anything from chess club to political activity), friends, the only time to catch the history professor actually in his office, another prank fire alarm, the best time to get into the gym without fighting for a treadmill. The only…