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The conundrum is that a girl with the kind of dad who will shoot an unarmed teenager in the head probably has both the best reason to lie to her dad and the best reason not to, in that situation. I can see being pretty fucking afraid of him if he was my dad.

Is the purple matrix the result of taking *both* the blue and red pills?

I have the answer to question number 3!

I'm pretty sure all that gets hand waved as being from Harry's point of view. It's pretty obvious that going to school with him had to be a nightmare. Exams were screwed up, teachers died/disappeared, Quiddich was a mess, Voldemort did a yearly death-show down every spring, and the house points were just biased as…

Just kidding! IT WAS GREAT.

You couldn't go one night without posting another "what the crap" story about Florida, could you? I just posted about how we would be lucky if the stupidest thing we heard about Florida this week was the werewolf thief.

He'll wear them once before all the buttons pop off. Then he'll shrug, because they were too short anyway. "Dress?" he muttered, "More like a tunic!"

Sorry Burt, but I think you're letting this one go too easily. Why wasn't a sick person being treated and instead sent to school? Why were they being transported by private vehicle rather than ambulance? Why did a teacher have to pay the expense of her treatment out of pocket? It's not poverty that explains this, it's…

Yeah, I kind of see this point. It's a school rule that may seem stupid in the context of this particular situation, but it's there for a good reason. Another commenter brought up a good point—parents are all fired up about hiring her back, but as soon as she drives their kid off campus and gets into a wreck, you…

And you have no idea why she opted to do what she did or what the circumstances are that prevented that from happening. I'm not sure how judging a sick person's decision making process is relevant at all to this discussion or topic. But that seems to be the trap we fall into—let's not talk about our screwed up…

My childhood was not great at times, and I realize a stop in the ER is an extra step to the story, but there were several occasions that I can think of where a teacher or a vice-principal at my school broke the liability rules by taking me off campus in their car, so as to take me home, because it was well after…

Some years ago I HAD insurance and had to go to hospital in an ambulance .. It cost me nearly $900.00 (after the insurance)... could have taken a limo for less!!!

Thank you for your comment! This is where I bust out the "P" word and politely remind us all to check our health and medical services privilege at the door. I think there's a worthwhile conversation to be had here about teachers who push boundaries in regards to emergency situations—I get that a lot of people don't…

I'm not saying it justifies what she has done but without insurance ambulances are really expensive. And it seems as if this student did not have the means to pay the medical bills she was going to incur. That is more of a fault though of our healthcare system.
Regardless, if something had happened to the girl in the…

Not surprising. I'm finding that more and more younger people, who grew up in privileged middle class families, have never been exposed to poor or working class people. Many have lived very sheltered lives. It's kind of sad really.

As evidenced by my handle, I went to Smith College. I mean, I think it probably has a diversity of incomes, but it was my first real contact with real "wealth". It was the first time I ever met a debutante (of course I'm from the west). But it was also the first time I had met people who not just went to private…