A lot of what people are paying for when paying for a private school is not quality of teacher but the ability of the administration to boot out troublemakers. Public schools have to educate all the children that walk in their doors, private schools can pick and choose. Private school teachers are any higher quality…

You, like myself, run in a city, where there are copious public restrooms (I run on an urban college campus where there are even more than an average number). The occasional time I’ve run in more far-flung locales though, I have indeed had to stop at dodgy port-a-potties and such. Having to take a shit in the middle…

Once baby is born, believe me, you will have plenty of time to sit around watching TV. Newborns are hella boring.

Yep. (I work at a university but not in an academic capacity). The two people in my department of 6 who are out sick the most? The single dudes. I have not taken a sick day that was actually due to me being sick in at least a year. My kid gets sick and I share staying home with him with my husband but I know I need to…

In regular amounts of “I could go out in this but it’d suck and I’m warm and dry right now” snow, order delivery and tip very well.

IDK man, I’ve got 3 hens and they’re fine and everything but they are dumb as a box of other boxes and mainly only want to hang out with me if they think I have a pocket full of scratch.

I decided a couple months ago that the Carson campaign is really just a direct mail scam that somehow got taken way more seriously than usual. The Right is full of direct mail scams bilking low-information citizens of what little money they have by playing on irrational fears. The Carson campaign is just another…

Paid for with my own hard-earned allowance money.

I have to respect the rhetorical jujitsu going on in this letter even while absolutely despising everyone involved in the writing and receiving of it.

Preeeach!

I want to star pretty much every person in this thread but you get a reply because OMG SAMESIES!!! Before I had my son I was all bitter about my maternity leave situation (good for the US, paltry compared to the rest of the world—8 weeks at 60% pay through long-term disability insurance) thinking that I’d be soooo…

Who knows? I don’t really care that much about other people’s harmless motivations.

Sure. I went to some Obama rallies and if you’re not into it, it’s boring. There’s also a lot of standing around and waiting involved. If you’ve decided you’re just not that into it and you’ve got a book handy, knock yourself out.

Two more years to goooooo!!!

There are a lot of regulations. There really have to be. I mean, what in the quoted list would you say is optional for a building in which dozens of children under the age of 5 are spending 10 hours a day every day? The internet, maybe? I’m assuming you want the teachers paid, the children fed and educated, the rent…

My daycare does. My favorite teacher’s son is in the 4-year-olds class right now, he’s adorable. Then again, my daycare is nonprofit and religious and gets money from the United Way, so very much non-fancypants.

In a former life, I worked in a position where I had to transcribe recordings of 5th graders trying to learn and describe a fairly abstract scientific concept.

OMG Thhiiiissss.

They take their slaves with them, silly!

Care to elucidate what side that is?