At the very least, we can say that Zero Tolerance was the mechanism that allowed an individual’s prejudice to grow into a very serious incident. If anyone from the teacher to the principal to the responding police shown the slightest bit of common sense and use of discretion, the entire incident would have been…

Good thing there’s always someone around to object when someone raises a tangential issue to the topic being discussed. Especially on a message board where literally dozens of other conversations on the original topic are happening simultaneously.

There’s another aspect of this story that is being largely ignored. The complete failure of Zero Tolerance policies, the moral cowardice of school administrators, and the criminalization of normal childhood behaviour.

What if they just buy a cheap burner cell and give that number to the app? And when the company texts the burner, they reply as if they were you? So that you never even know that a profile for you was created and have no way of defending yourself.

Wish I could find the link, but read a very interesting article from history professor in why Feudalism is superior to Democracy. I think it was done as a way if dispelling myths about Feudalism, not to say we should actually go back to it.

I hate this show because it gives a very incorrect impression of how these kinds of investment deals are done. It’s completely wrong.

Never heard that, but there is a service first the blind that does that exact thing. So maybe you turned it on.

I think they just replaced ‘The Emperor’ with ‘The Party’ and kept the heriarchy of duties.

If I remember Confuscious correctly, an abusive parent such as you describe has failed in their duty to their children and then has no right to expect the children to fulfill their duty to the parent. Each tier of Confuscious heirarchy is a tw0-way street where one expects fielty for having given it.

I was in the Disney Store recently and the costume for the main female character was in the Star Wars section, which was on the boy’s side of the store.

He sounds like he should be on the Gawker staff, exclusively writing about the evils of gentrification.

The ‘h’ is silent and you need more u’s.

Would you rather all women no longer wear makeup or that all men have to start wearing makeup too?

You know, its just as likely that the POTUS twitter feed is maintained by some 19 year old Intern from Yale who got tired of reading this kid’s multiple posts and clicked block without really thinking about it.

Penn &Teller Bullshit did a good piece on the Dalai Lama. How before the Chinese kicked them out, they were a ruling, authoritarian government where the priests ruled and the Dalai Lama had absolute power. They were rich and powerful.

The difference here is that this is willfully designed into the vehicle to skirt the law where the other recalls are about mistakes made in good faith (no proof to the contrary). Willful action should always merit severe punishment.

I really thought bio-diesel was going to be the turning point that would make diesel engines popular, but it just hasn’t happened. Don’t know of a single pump in driving distance dispensing bio-diesel for cars. Have seen it distributed for home heating oil.

Rand is much more reasonable than his father.

As someone who is married to an RN, they ARE the most underappreciated profession. Routinely making calls that save lives, while being shit on by the hospital administration, the doctors, the patients and the patients families.

If you can even form the question, then you are guilty of a thought crime. But don’t worry, we’re working on changing the language so you won’t have the vocabulary necessary to form such thoughts.