I’m in Minnesota too and now realized I’ve never paid attention if my inlaws call it dressing or stuffing. They are freaks who don’t make gravy at Thanksgiving though. I was horribly confused by this last year.

I adore this series. It cannot be mentioned enough, especially in this article.

I will use this opportunity to once again promote The Accursed Kings series by Maurice Druon about these exact events (I might love them too much). Book one- starts with the enacting of the curse of de Molay and they go through the line up of kings and popes.

Well, they’re from southern Ohio, so I can see some of the southern influence, but yeah, not southern. Also, stuffing isn’t called dressing? I thought stuffing was only stuffing if you stuff the bird with it, and you’re not supposed to do that anymore so it’s just dressing. I’m a native Ohioan with a southern mother,…

Agreed. It’s less southern food than “farm style” (for lack of a better term, I’m pretty sure it’s a type of cuisine grouping). It’s more like a Perkins than anything else, but I think slightly better food and much better pie. I don’t love Bob Evans, but it’s not the worst ever.

My dear flat, wide feet that need arch support to function swear by Naturalizer as a brand and these by extension.

My dear flat, wide feet that need arch support to function swear by Naturalizer as a brand and these by extension.

So, either this didn’t happen at my school, or I kicked ass at avoiding it and remaining totally clueless.

Is it a new thing? Something that didn’t happen while I was at college? Something I successfully avoided noticing because the honors dorm and my classes were far far away from the frat houses?

And that domestic terrorism is more likely than international? Like, since 9/11, how many foreign terrorists have we had vs domestic? It’s not like terrorist organizations overseas need to actually send people over anymore. It’s called the internet and it’s been proven to be an effective recruiting tool. Not to…

The worst thing about this show is that it ended.

I don’t usually laugh out loud for books, but I did for this one.

From what I understand- rotating classes and combining a lot of grades. So like, English A is offered one year, English B is offered the next and taught to both Junior and Senior level and everyone in those classes take it.

Yeah, my high school was kinda similar. There was a sizable evangelical group, because small town in the midwest, but college surprised me at how many people I met who had such homogenous backgrounds. I hung out with this big group of kids who covered a pretty broad range of backgrounds, but then met people in college…

No- First They Killed My Father.

I believe it. My dad was a biology teacher and had the yearly “we teach science in this class and evolution is science and therefore, we teach evolution” conversation with parents (I say conversation, I mean that parents yelled at him and he repeated above and then bitched about creationism later).

I met kids in college from public schools that had the same kind of reactions to, like, everything. Small town public schools can create that same environment, but one of the girls I met didn’t go to a small town public school, just a homogenous one in a wealthy suburb that she could cloister herself with friends from…

Have I not read them enough? I am way too lazy to not have the Accio ability.

Or even one that went slightly against his “Christian principles?” I remember several of the more fundamentalist types in my courses complaining about books we had to read and our reading list was pretty standard, so how did these kids avoid the same books?

Wait... so reading Harry Potter won’t make me a wizard either? Damnit, all those panicking evangelicals/fundamentalists, I was really hoping those powers would kick in.

We had a memoir by a woman who survived the Cambodian genocide. It was a great book, but give me “graphic visual depictions of sexuality” over graphic depictions of mass murder please.