I respect your experience.  I didn’t have firsthand experience with the way that Republicans actually use vouchers to destroy public schools.  Now I am more aware.

The answer may be to listen to the LA teachers themselves

You first, you lousy bullying fuck.

What does that even mean? Ultra-right blah,blah,blah. In your world that probably means anyone who doesn’t agree with you.

Here is an offer:

Counterpoint: the public schools are in part so bad because of the taxpayer money that’s being siphoned off into the various charter systems. It’s not just about tuition; there are myriad ways that private schools happily bleed the public purse behind the scenes.

Yeah, I’m starting to feel the same way.

...assistance of a goat named Tom.

Actually, I think you’re on to something. A lot of our world’s very powerful celebrities have scandals that remind me of psychiatric patients who suffered childhood abuse, and stopped maturing *very* young.

Oh, please. Let’s please not act like Richie Incognito did nothing to provoke this. He bullied a man until that man had a psychotic break. Now we all have to pay Federal police to protect his bullying, racist-white-trash ass.

Not even a little bit, and I’m not thrilled with you lying about me on that score either.

Don’t believe the hype - a lot of gangbangers join up because they want to wild out and act like stupid teenagers, too.

Do you *want* to be a paid mouthpiece for ultra-right corporate and Israeli interests?

Haha, yeah man.  Half an hour of that after a particularly difficult level and I’d be ready to go huddle in a corner.

Completely immobile. With a Harlem Globetrotter taking shots for him.

It blew my mind open, but I only finished half of it. It was punishing controlwise and the ultrarealistic death depictions coming so frequently got hard on my psyche.

As for Martin...his life is destroyed already. I am not defending him, but I am also disinclined to pile on. He’s about to go to a very high-profile trial over a gun threat in the most politically charged atmosphere regarding guns in decades. I hope he makes it out of this without ending up in a straitjacket - or…

I’ma calm down here, because I think that’s important for everyone even discussing this shit. Still, fuck Richie. I’ve worked with dudes like him. They make every day a Hell and a nightmare by saying shit that shouldn’t have been okay to be forced to hear on a worksite in 1950, even if it all too often was.

What do you want us to say?

The NFL could have, and should have, stepped in *loooooong* before shit got this bad. The locker-room text reveals coming out of the whole situation are fucking hideous.