I just want people who are able to separate their faith from law. Also not to force their religious values on me and others. By my measure, a lot of Christain fail my test.

No, that would actually be James Garfield, who showed up at the Republican convention in 1880 as the campaign manager for Sherman, gave the nominating speech for him, and then wound up being nominated himself! And Garfield won the election, he became President, but was assassinated shortly thereafter. It’s a really…

I don’t like her views on the issues but I will admit she has the most command when she’s on stage. I like seeing strong women even if we disagree on things.

I have to hand it to her. Fiorina knows how to command a stage. She looked confident and competent, even though most of what she said was wrong wrong wrong. The crowd loved her. If she continues to grow in popularity, she’ll get the nomination.

I loled too, which apparently hurt because laughing makes buttholes clench. It was a very shortsighted endeavour on the testicle owners part.

A Story of Few Words: A Sexy Haiku

You are totally right on this. (And I also grew up with a lot of adults who preferred to be referred to just by their first name.) You show respect to people by, you know, treating them with respect. Not by using honorifics. Adults, while they have more power and responsibility than young people, are no more deserving…

“Who knew the nurses of America moved like the mob?”

That’s every kid. Why did you do x? I wanted to see what would happen. Smart kids just use higher levels of technology.

Big Foot’s school district herds all of the kids to the football stadium and then sweeps the school with the police department any time a bomb threat is called in. They had some major issues once though because the kid that called in the original threat called back and said “It’s in the stadium”. (He was arrested…

It’s not just standard procedure. It’s federal law that if police or anyone have even the slightest suspicion of an explosive device the bomb squad is to be notified to check it out immediately.

And he’s a 9th grader, so this would be his first year and he was just looking for fellow robot loving homies :(

Your info could be right; an article I read earlier said he was in the Robotics Club in middle school and was looking for something similar in high school, which is part of why he brought the clock he made in.

This country has gone insane. I blame the 24 hour news cycle.

I’m very skeptical of their story. When police take a bomb threat seriously, they evacuate the premises and send in a little robot to investigate/detonate it. This is straight up “this kid is a Muslim and an engineer which means he could grow up to be a bomb-making terrorist, so let’s give him a scare he’ll never…

When I was a misfit freshman in high-school, some nosy classmate (this was before 9/11 but after Columbine) poked through my notebook and decided that my idle video-game based doodles were, in fact, bomb plans and dimed me out to the administration. You’ll never believe what happened!

If they really thought it was a bomb, why didn’t they call people who can recognize bombs right away? Couldn’t a member of a bomb squad say, “No, dipshits. Not a bomb.”

I hate GoFundMe. I haaaaaaate GoFundMe. But I feel like starting one to send this kid to MIT.

That poor fucking kid. He must’ve been so proud of what he made and to have his efforts met with such racist suspicion is heartbreaking. He sounds like a great student and every teacher involved in this mess should be thoroughly ashamed.

It’s very useful for traveling (which I do quite a lot of) but you have to learn how to read the reviews. Unless there are a lot of them (and I do look at the hidden ones), I don’t trust the gushing 5-stars. The 4-star reviews (or lack, thereof) usually tell the real story.