Travolta is 62, should be someone older.

Tom Cruise, his family is scientology.

Not only that but the whole point of this moronic stunt was the show the non-using public about the effects of drug use. A quick google search does just that. Hell, haven’t we all seen the meth mugshot timeline? Also, I don’t need to see what cops see. That’s why I’m not a cop.

Here’s our cutie. Now she’s living in the trees on the vacant lot next door and we’re enjoying the full use of our doorway.

Grandma Hazel would not kill a spider in the house( or outside ) if she felt she had to she would carefully move them out side. Also she called her black fry pan a spider, and my bicycle a wheel.

Thank you for reading Joanna’s Ratings.

We had a reasonably large spider (4 inches from leg tip to leg tip) at eye level across the door out of our garage. The web covered the top third of the door, so we had to use a different door for awhile. Anyway it was fascinating to watch the spider rebuild the web every few days. The way she stretched the web,…

After they tune the web like a guitar, do they play it left hand, jamming good with Weird and Gilly then take it too far?

Duh. How would anyone not know this?

Spiders are great engineers.

I almost feel guilty about how little I disapprove of this. The curse of being a bleeding-heart liberal and not a college athlete rapist, I guess.

I think it’s wonderfully optimistic that you think he’ll feel shame over this.

As long as the protestors don’t resort to violent action or harass his family and friends, I think this is an appropriate form of expressing anger about an obvious injustice. In lieu of a prison sentence, Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual…

Ugh, this kind of thing is so frustrating. And actually kind of offensive to people that have legitimate issues with certain content. I realize that my reactions and how I handle things don’t speak for everyone and I’m not saying anyone should have to respond in the same way. And I would never fault anyone for seeking…

I was under the impression that the point of trigger warnings was to let students know well ahead of time that some kind of upsetting content will be covered so they won’t be taken off-guard. My film class watched A Clockwork Orange; it’s only fair to [TRIGGER WARNING: SPOILERS] mention ahead of time that there’s a…

SO I have another example from this very class that illustrates this perfectly. I can’t remember how we got into this discussion but the response by the student stays with me to this day.

As someone (unfortunately) raised and schooled in the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church, I can tell you there are some people who think EVERYTHING is offensive to their religion/Christianity.

This viewpoint is very fascinating to me. It illustrates a fundamental problem with anyone trying to “right the wrongs” of society. They are not acknowledging their own bias with regards to what “right” looks like.

I believe it’s human nature to assume what is “right” is really just what is most familiar. And I have a…

This is why trigger warnings end up getting a bad rap. There are valid reasons, abuse survivors, veterans, etc should at least get the heads up when it’s not obvious from the work what’s going to be coming, but those using it to be lazy is just unacceptable. “Weird” is why you go to college, if you’re just planning on…

Those examples highlight the issue pretty well. Something that started as “we have empathy for people with PTSD and are going to do this totally innocuous and inconsequential thing that might help them” becomes “shitty people try to abuse that empathy to get out of work.”

I’m a Lutheran and I enjoy science fiction and fantasy as much as the next completely obsessed geek. I have also extensively studied Lutheran theology. I can attest that this person was making stuff up.

Well, unless she was one of the fundamentalist “Lutherans”. In which case it wouldn’t be her that was making stuff…