Critics will say they’re just kids and boys will be boys, but times change. Fighting used to be no big deal, and heck when I was a kid you could get away with bringing a BB gun. Neither of these things are tolerated any longer, and you know what? The kids adapted, and are better off for it. There needs to be a system…

Yes! I would love to see personal insufferability mapped out into a line chart. I believe that line would peak and remain a plateau from ages 15-25.

This stuff isn’t uncommon. I was chased around my room by a student trying to “hug” me, and was told when I reported it that I was lucky I was “still hot.” I could not get him removed from my classroom, even as I was subjected to hearing him describe what he’d like to do to me sexually multiple times. He liked to…

Can confirm: kids are assholes. I didn’t engage in behavior like this, but I went to school with plenty that would or did.

If you constantly reinforce in everything you do to love other humans and to never assume that you are better than others–that the most important thing you can do is respect the existence of another person, to listen, to care...that is very unlikely to happen, so don’t worry.

I hate how the Republican party not so subtly pretends they are the Christian party. Their are democratic Christians out there. Only they aren’t part of an agenda to oppress the poor and vulnerable of our population, you know, that stuff Jesus talked about.

BTW this is why I couldn’t ever be a politician. There is no way I could sit there with a straight face and spout this kind of drivel while also saying “I’m a father, a husband and a Marine!!!! Aren’t I just the most amazing person on the planet.”

“Kevin Nicholson: Father. Husband. Marine. Businessman. Asshole.”

This is my nightmare. That one day I’ll raise kids and as an act of rebellion they’ll become die hard conservatives because it’s “punk rock”.

“I’m a conservative today not because I was born one, but because of the experience I earned as a Marine in combat, my experience as a husband and father, my choice to be a Christian, the schools I chose to attend and the decision to pursue the career that I have”

That made the best grilled cheese sandwich.

The pick up could be at The Hub where you wait in line while they swipe hair samples to make sure you’re not on drugs and deserve to eat. You then enter a little room where ICE agents determine your citizenship status. Once you’ve completed that, you’ll sign up for a labor job to meet the requirements of getting SNAP.…

Other questions...from where are poor people supposed to pick up this box of crap food and how are they supposed to transport it? I seriously ask, because if the pick-up is at some “central” distribution center, then recipients may just abandon the pick-up all together due to hardship of getting there. Then the…

It isn’t even about big families to me. Some people are so consumed with whatever their issues are that they have nothing left to even attempt to ensure a decent life for a child. Making sure they can’t do what they clearly can’t handle is thinking about the next generation.

I wish sterilization didn’t have the bad rap it did, because *having children should not be the norm.* We have too many kids in the world, and most people are not going to be amazing parents. We should pour the resources we have into fewer kids with higher quality childhoods. “It takes a village” and all that.

My son’s grandmother who was an addict was sterilized. She only had 3 kids one was adopted when she was a teen. So she really had 2 kids. Anyway, they had a program that would pay women with drug problems to have their tubes tied. I know it happened in Philly in probably the late 80's early 90's. For her it probably…

He could have offered an IUD and rehab. Not so icky. Sterilization has a long and unfortunate history.

I have four children. I am able to take care of them quite well. The OB for our last child suggested a tubal ligation for various reasons, none of which had anything to do with smoking crack or not taking care of the kids. It’s well within a doctor’s purview to talk about such a thing. A judge? Not so much.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a healthcare provider had suggested it at some point. I’d bet on it actually. She probably should have had her tubes tied a long time ago. What bothers me is that I feel the judge was implying she’d get leniency for getting sterilized. I don’t think that’s okay (which we clearly agree upon).

Should the judge have made the suggestion in a courtroom? Probably not.