Parents and school districts gave to decide what they want. If you want teachers to intervene hey a) better be paid for that shit, b) better be trained for that shit and c) have job and liability protections for when that shit arises.

That (the complaint) is dumb as shit.

You could have quit immediately after writing that first subordinate clause.

Except that dreads were worn by Celts, Gauls, and Indians (sub-continent, that is). The black community and Rastas don’t have a corner on locks, no matter the popular “appropriation” mythology.

At a certain point, regardless of the long history of white privilege, there’s got to be dialogue. If efforts made in good faith are a little tone deaf, you can make an argument that they’d be less so with more dialogue. Ripping white people, over and over, who want to do the right things, but are only ever told…

Oh, golly. I'll never recover from the devastation.

You raised a year old comment. I did not. If you can objectively look at what’s going on in the South and say that, even as it tries to revive legal discrimination, as it fails women and children, as it preserves some notion that people who fought for the right to own other people, that those states are worth praise,…

The white guy who went to Haverford is your justification for ignoring the fact that a statewide office, which isn't limited by district, just popular vote, is somehow in danger of being gerrymandered? You don't understand electoral politics. You'd have a slight shot on voter ID, but even then, not really.

Statewide office makes gerrymandering immaterial. If that's all you got, then weak sauce.

Well, name a dude that inspires you. He may not have found inspiration in much of the woman-authored fiction and non-fiction he’s read. That’s not impossible, because inspiration is just like finding appeal in art...it’s there or it isn’t.

If you can look at the people the South elects and the political policies that are popular in most souther states, and still not think, “Fuck the South”, is reasonable, then I’m not the one with the problem.

You’re reading me incorrectly. Where you see “excuse”, other people, including professionals, see “person in need of psychiatric care”. I don’t approve of her conduct, but the vitriol is amazing. Are all people with problems “pieces of shit”? (The answer, btw, is no.)

Well, I’m sure you were an angel in high school. Of course, you probably had nothing like the familial dysfunction Solo enjoyed.

Education does not confer “overqualified” status. Every job has to be learned before one can claim they’re qualified, let alone overqualified. Then, there are the intangibles, such as time management, communication, teamwork, initiative, accepting that every gig has some mundane requirements, etc.

Yep, that 6'10" 350 lb nephew was really in danger, especially after he hit her with a broomstick.

Yeah, she’s so awful in objective comparison to the huge number (comparatively) of male professional athletes who are arrested for various and sundry crimes, or suddenly have women they have abused”withdraw” complaints or fail to cooperate. Get your head out of your ass.

No, it’s not. Do some reading. Find out for yourself if big acts (to which I was referring) are overcharging.

You’re wrong. Almost every concert is actually underpriced, because the secondary market is clear indication that, regardless of face value, people will pay significantly more to see most acts.

Bands don’t control the prices on the secondary market, demand does. People paid obscene amounts because they wanted to; they were under no compulsion.

All he does is catch touchdowns...