I guess it just gets to me. I was trying to help someone with Algebra. Early stuff - quadratic equations. His problem wasn't mathematical theory. It was that he'd not done enough arithmetic and had to spend a long time just figuring out the simple math part. The part that should have been automatic and easy was…

I mean you'd think he'd at least have some selfish hangers on still…

I majored in math and was not a "natural." Rote learning is how you get to the point where any of the rules have meaning. Because you've made the basic functioning so automatic that you don't need to think about what's happening, you sit back and figure out why it's happening. That's actually how people in other…

Does he own only one pair of shoes? Surely he has a minion who could do it for him?

I think we should bring back Puritan names for boys. Everyone should have names like "Stalwart" and "Learned."

The way people view and teach math nowadays really annoys me. The (supposed) focus on learning "why" before "how" is dumb. You need to learn how it's done (usually through rote memorization) before "why" means anything at all. That's even how math progressed. People figured out that trig/calculus worked and applied it…

Well women make up more than 50% of the senior citizen population whereas transgender and gay seniors are a comparatively tiny minority. So why don't they ever go on heists? Statistically, you'd think there'd be at least one band of geriatric Merry Women robbing from the rich.

Especially when you consider how suited it is to the plot. Lots of elderly women who outlived their husbands' pensions or their own retirement funds.

I think it's important to expect the same kindness from others that you would extend yourself. By which I mean, if you were faced by a nervous, awkward, well-meaning person, would you be irritated or cruel or would you try to be kind? My guess is you'd be nice and they will be nice too. This is independent of…

It's "the same" enough for people without even a nodding relationship with the truth and their blithering followers who are desperate to find an excuse to believe them.

He was using the phrase pejoratively to imply they were expressing left wing opinions rather than reality-based facts. So their citing of facts contradicts him. Obviously.

If I had to guess, Syd switched with David/Lenny. Then David/Lenny (or just Lenny) switched with Kerry. Then Lenny went into Oliver (parasitically). The difference from old switching moments was that Lenny decided to leave David's body this time around. When Syd switched in the first episode, Lenny stayed in…

I see you are already polishing your conspiracy theory for when there is no evidence. Always be prepared!

Jacob Have I Loved might be young for him (so he might think it's beneath his dignity) but it's an excellent take on how life is brutally unjust in a thousand tiny ways yet we can still find dignity and happiness. It also has a liberal dose of a woman's perspective without demonizing men in any way.

So, on the one hand, we're suppose to view the constitution through a historical lens and understand that it shouldn't be treated literally but on the other we are wrong for failing to "hew" closer to the original document rather than imposing our modern sensibilities?

The thing is, people are stupid and they think they have nice things because they are "good people" not because money and time is spent to make things nice. They think their water and air are clean and their trash is picked up because they are white not because there is a vast government apperatus ensuring those…

Is that her greatest concern? Or is it a point she's making about the dangers of complaisancy?

Primordial ooze predates genders too. Let alone human history. So I'm not sure how "men" could be involved in any sense.

Wealthy conclaves that have been wealthy for a long time. I got to go to one such school when my parents rented a house in a town they couldn't otherwise afford. The elementary school teachers had Ph.D.s.

I don't think aknowledging that a lot of condescension is gendered is valueless. Why does it have to be "all"? Would domestic violence be a useless category because not all violence (or all violence against women) is domestic in nature?