Dear internet friend, if you’re just now contemplating that we might be fucked... please share the illicit drugs you have been consuming non-stop for the last year+ with the rest of the class. Please.

Touché!

Ouch.

You’re overlooking the piles of cash to be swindled with the whole “School Choice” shell game. Steal a pile of cash and punish the poors? What could be sweeter?

Well, to be fair, they’re not very bright over there.

Once upon a time, I tried to support a Kickstarter with something very similar for far less than $80. Kickstarter didn’t hit goal. It seemed like a neat idea, but, this is admittedly before I experienced the joy that is the double-walled cup.

It’s the part where the State is filtering content — regardless of the political affiliation of those behind it, the content being filtered, or the intensions — that is the problem.

Exactly. I mean, maybe not PP in this case, but whenever you start “editing content for ‘the public good,’” you have to then question who’s doing the editing and what their agenda is. Given the long, thorny process of legally attempting to define what is “Art” and/or what is “Porn”, there is no way any decision will…

Wait. You can’t just tease us like that. Witches going door to door for candy...for Easter? How did a nice pagan fertility ritual end up with trick-or-treating?

I believe it goes: corporations are people, the best people; women and those who are brown...eh, not so much.

I’m so very confused!!!!!!

So, the real reason for us not needing all those “superfluous” diplomats over at the State Department wasn’t that we’d soon be so beloved and successful we wouldn’t need ‘em. The real reason was we’re just gonna let Ivanka and Jared do it, instead. I mean, trained, knowledgeable diplomats would just get in the way,…

No, I believe in cause and effect. Also statistics.

Yes, dumbass, the problem is guns because without them, it’s impossible to have shootings. Point finger-guns (or pencils, small dogs, delicious cheeses, LEGO sculptures, random home appliances) at people all you want; not a single person is going to fall over full of bullet holes.

Whereas I could not bring myself to take funds from groups which I personally find so completely morally reprehensible. (Welcome to why I should never run for public office.)

Or, say, in your school in the middle of a regular day?

In the cold light of morning, I’m ashamed that I admitted I’d would’ve preferred ignorance. I should know better, and if nothing else has been learned in the last year or so, it should be that the luxury of ignorance some enjoyed before cannot last, and will not save them or anyone else.

Counter point: the out-and-proud Trump supporters I was forced to endure at my last job were stupefyingly terrible people. It’s selfish of me, but I would’ve preferred the secret ones, because ignorance is bliss compared to listening to shameless, misogynist, racist, homophobic, hate-filled, willfully ignorant asshats…

Ms Refined and Dignified Taste is why my 2-week-old shower curtain is being held together with packing tape, but I’ll let her know you said so.