As an ed policy person, I just can't get over the talking point: "our kids should be the focus of our education system." Instead of...what alternative?!

I think it's a travesty that there is no one of middle eastern descent, but that dude looks EXACTLY like Aladdin. Did they create him in a lab?

and there are plenty of lovely Ginas in the world (Gershon, Torres and — actually, that's it)

That's exactly what I was going to say. I figured Opal wasn't randomly picked out of a crowd.

Thanks for the tips. Now time to make my own video - 10 random strangers meet 10 other strangers for a dinner party! Orgy ensues.

Tuesday is too early for an orgy?

You are supposed to say something self effacing like "But i have much better taste in partners' than she does" and then we'd be like "OH YOU."

That's just the toxins leaving your colon!

At least where I grew up, Awana was presented as a kind of youth group, and definitely not framed in opposition to the Girl or Boy Scouts. That's what's interesting about AHG to me as a reporter — that it's basically the same thing as Girl Scouts, but with the youth group stuff shoehorned in, and marketed as such. As…

"Achievement in Faking Headaches" is another badge.

You know, I think that modesty is a good value to teach girls (or rather children in general), if you go by the actual definition of it:

I wonder if they have a "hold an aspirin between your knees" merit badge.

Slutty? Man, all my lame Brownie troop did was eat cookies and do a few really lame crafts. I shoulda stayed in a few more years.