My 11 year old boy has started talking about being fat. He’s got that thin body that goes with ADHD energy and plays soccer, but because his parents (me) are striving to lose weight and talk a lot about eating well (I’m pre-diabetic) he’s internalized a lot of it. Plus, the age. Everyone needs to hear this.

My mother’s gauge for the severity of any baby to preschool injury: The longer the silent scream (parents, you know what I mean) the more severe the injury. Any child that screams right away is fine.

This is why the left has to move away from lockstep policy and towards common values.

If you sum up the holdings of all these rich conservatives, you are pretty much giving them money by existing.

Legitimate question: Had Buffalo won their first appearance in the SuperBowl, but everything else was the same, would they be more or less sad than the Jets?

Serious question my wife and I are debating: Is firing this guy the best response? We included sexual assault perpetrators and rapists in our discussion of what to do with people (mostly men) who terrorize others in the community.

I never thought being an asshole was just a male trait, but apparently science proves it is. At least, that’s my takeaway on how men get leadership roles and women do not.

Is the “over 30" rule about superstars or across the board actors?

I would gladly accept European style unions.

This is where I make my Tannenbaum/Mangini combo pitch. Tannenbaum had a knack as Jets’ GM for finding good talent. Mangini is the type of coach who can take undisciplined players and give them the structure and discipline to get them to the playoffs. Together, the Jets were turning it around.

A man, I work in an environment that is mostly women (elementary school). People often greet each other with a hug, except for me—I get an polite “Hi” and verbal greeting. Not even an offer of handshake (no one really handshakes colleagues at our school). It feels exclusionary, especially at the start of the year…

I teach thematically. So much of the march through the timeline seemed to focus on wars, with little in between and movements being a separate chapter. By the time you explore causes of WWI, WWI, fallout of WWI and how Versailles lead to WWII there is little time for anything else. I felt it became violence porn to…

This reminds me how W. Bush’s people approached Aaron Sorkin on having Bush do a cameo—they even suggested him being a pizza boy or something small. Bush really liked the show and wanted to be part of it. Sorkin apparently replied along the lines of “Does he know what kind of show this is? It’s essentially against…

What’s your favorite thing about coaching women’s basketball?

Too strong? You mean having some power less or equal than ownership.

I so wish Belichick trolled other teams at the coin flip like Rex Ryan does. I know its obnoxious and, long term, I’m against it in almost every case. Still....

One Name: Jeff Galloway. He popularized how we now train and is now popularizing the “run walk run” method. The latter is being received as the former once was.

Okay, yeah, NFL is a hard dream to accept when a student tells you they don’t need what you’re selling because they’re gonna go pro. But, I have silently judged plenty of students who have proved me wrong. Lesson: Assume every student can do it. Assume every student can go far. Even if they don’t make their 15…

I just want to jump in an defend the Burlington Police Department for being reasonable in this situation; the chief has tried to be as community oriented as possible. The release of the tapes was, in part, to let the community know that their responses are reasonable.

I appreciate the “family friendly” heads up because too many public spaces play lyrics I don’t want my kids to hear. That said, if I was going to a hip-hop themed anything I don’t know if I’d want it to be sanitized—what’s the point?