why would he stay for so long when crazy has direct access to even crazier?

I am a little taken back how everyone in this article, including the author, think of mental illness. Calling her toxic as if she has some moral failure or evil intent instead of associating her actions to a mental health issue. This woman needed medical care, not years of arguing and then being told to blow her…

This is the big unanswered question. His daughters are shot and lying in the street. Meanwhile, Dad is safe down at the end of the cul-de-sac. If someone has shot my kids (or trying to) they would have to get through me. When you consider the Mom went back in to get more ammo. Seems like dad had several chances to…

It totally like you missed you are the subject of the article. You are blind to your own feeling of privilege. You made the assumption everyone here speaks just like you and appointed yourself grammar police to prove it. But keep coming back with little quips. It is obvious you lack the personal insight to see that…

Arizona apparently also considers steroid use as a job.

Meh, I prefer LARPers for public office.

Increases in tuition are mostly driven by decrease in support by the states.

Is this how you spend your time on Kinja? I bet you really think you are adding to the conversation. Try again and this time respond to the point and remember not everyone uses English as a first language. You know, don’t talk abut privilege then correct people as if only Americans use the Internet. Kind of ironic…

Bought a used BMW for half the price of new. It had 12,000 miles and not a spot of dirt or ding on/in it. Would never had been able to get into a Bimmer otherwise. To make up, I have driven it now for 6 years and just now did my first out-of-pocket maintenance item.

As long as my XBox360 and PS3 have used games at Gamestop I have yet played, I am keeping them. That and Netflix.

We didn’t have much money to spare when I was growing up so my mother bought us kids more clothes than she bought herself. She’d buy one or two outfits a year for herself and wear them over and over.

And do not even think of starting a family. For that matter, or leaving that abusive partner.

helps me fight off the after-lunch slump

But that’s fine. It sounds like you earned it and did well. It was a good investment in you. What we need is MORE seats at colleges instead of arguing over how we are going to fight over a scarce resource.

There’s a reason black and hispanic kids aren’t in AP classes as much, and it’s not because they’re not naturally smart enough.

As a liberal I do not believe in this statement at all. Bring others up, not some down.

Yeah, fuck white parents from instilling the expectations of attending university kin their children from a young age. If you use your success to try and make a better life for your kids then you are an evil person.

Probably a decreasing trend.

At one point just finishing high school was a privilege. Now it has long been practically a requirement for life. College is not becoming the same thing. We still think of it as a privilege. Instead of arguing how we are going to mete out the few seats each year, we should be making more seats so that everyone that…

Yeah, like I really liked half of her article. As white parent I should feel privileged just because I do everything I can for my child to get into a good school?