Nope, not the only person. I said this exact same thing the last time Frozen came up here. I didn't dislike it, but I don't get the frenzy over it.

I'm also Catholic and in the South. Last week at Palm Sunday mass, there was some guy wearing jeans and a t-shirt that read "Git 'er done." While I appreciate the sentiment as applied to Palm Sunday (SO. LONG.), I can't believe he didn't have a single better option in his entire wardrobe. That said, I haven't…

Based on the first link and second links, this time the reservoir involved was Mt. Tabor Reservoir 5, which holds 50 million gallons and was drained of 38 million gallons. Last time, in 2011, the reservoir involved was Mt. Tabor Reservoir 1, which was drained of 8 million gallons. From the OregonLive link, above:

Well, it was more than just saying the word fart... apparently he was responding to the teacher's questions by calling out "fart," generally acting like a clown and disrupting the class. He didn't get sent to the principal's office, he didn't even really get in trouble from his classroom teacher - he was asked to…

YES! I was just scrolling down to the bottom of the comments, getting ready to be the sole supporter of the Take 5. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in my appreciation for it. I once almost tipped over an entire candy machine after it refused to release my Take 5 from its hateful spiral thingy.

Yes, they are! Those I don't mind reading over and over again. Plus, he's origami-ing anything and everything, which is hilarious and awesome. I currently have Jabba the Puppett, Darth Paper, and an origami Ewok keeping me company at work.

My son can (and did, repeatedly) read them himself, but I also read to him twice a day and for the longest time CU books were the only ones he wanted to read. Finally I called a moratorium on them during reading time, but he read them by himself for quite a long time afterwards. He still thinks poop, fart, etc. are…

Yeah, thanks, I've read them, I know what's in them (never said I didn't), and I don't believe the crazy shit the anti-CC people say about them. I also don't really have a dog in this fight, since, as noted, my kid goes to a school that doesn't follow the state curriculum. I was just pointing out that this post is…

I don't care about pee-pee, poopy, wedgie, or a grown man wearing only his underpants, but I'd love to see Captain Underpants banned just so I NEVER have to see it again. (Not really. No book banning, ever.) Those books rapidly went from clever, to mildly amusing, to DEAR GOD NO, I WILL NOT READ THAT WITH YOU AGAIN…

That's my understanding of Common Core, too, but a few months ago the mother of a kid in my son's second grade class was ranting to me about needing to stop CC (never mind that our kids go to a private school that doesn't use CC) and handed me some anti-CC propaganda that included the fact that under CC kids would be…

My grandparents' house was near the Nabisco factory in NJ. To this day, the smell of 'Nilla wafers reminds me of them.

We had the guest bathroom in our 109 year old Victorian renovated just before we threw a Christmas party this past year, and the single most common comment that people made when they saw it was "Thank GOD the door closes all the way now!" It wasn't the latch - it was all warped out of shape and had to be planed down…

Good for you! This stuff is important to talk to your kids about for so many reasons.

Thank you. I was starting to feel like the only person in the universe who doesn't understand the frenzy over this movie. I liked it, my kid liked it, but I didn't think it was THIS good. I'm perplexed by the whole thing.

People seriously need to get a grip. I have a seven year old, so I completely understand wanting to get your kid something they really want, but they (and you) can't always get what you want. That's a pretty important lesson to learn early on for both parents and children, unless you want to raise your own little…

While it's true that only a handful of states still have blanket sovereign immunity for all actions against the state, most states still have state immunity in one form or another. In SC, where I primarily practice, they repealed the blanket sovereign immunity, but then granted it back via a long and pretty broad…

He also called me while I was on my maternity "vacation" to ask me to do some work for the firm. Since my fabulous "vacation" was was unpaid time, I declined to do any work for free, and made him pay me my hourly rate to do it.

He has a number of children himself and appears to genuinely think his wife's job of raising them was a super-easy fun time for her, while he slaved away making money for her bon-bons and manicures. And it escapes his notice that I have both his wife's "fun" stuff and his slaving to do, all in the same number of…

We get nothing where I work, not even FMLA leave, because despite the fairly large total size of my firm, I work in an office that has fewer than 50 employees and we're not within 75 miles of the main office. They allow people to take unpaid leave at their discretion - when I had my son, they tried to get me to take…

My father passed away on a Saturday four weeks ago. I came into the office on Monday (because we don't get any bereavement leave) and told the partner who manages my local office that I would be out for three days at the end of the week to attend my father's funeral in another state. I never heard anything from her,…