This is where I make my pitch: Reboot with the first Doctor and go through all 13, one a season, with new actors in new stories.

1. Let’s not slam harried moms. They get shit done.

In college, the Peter Pan bus driver said “Wore-sester” and the passengers boo-ed him.

You can’t think too hard on it, for sure.

The British seem to understand that acting begins and ends when you enter/leave the stage. I have heard it is because they are paid so little they see a role as a role.

The AMERICAN PAGEANT is one of the few textbooks I feel was worth my time.

A few things:

And girls just have more to do. Title IX opened a lot of doors for sports, and now sports are year round and competing with each other so soccer and lacrosse and track are all eating each other’s memberships.

I’m pretty cost conscious, but as I think of it as mostly charity (and the rest personal gluttony) I don’t weigh the size of the box.

I love their shortbread.

Most of the cookie sales in my world are through work. Either a parent solicits sales in the break room or, in my case, my students hit me up as their teacher.

With this headline:

Not cynical at all—it is how the college world works.

Canada: Love it or leave it.

A 9/11 favorite from THE ONION:

Oh my god. Most I’ve laughed all week.

How do you ban free rides to vote?

Favorite scene in THELMA & LOUISE: When Thelma confronts the trucker and then blows up his truck.

I think back to the scene where the high school football player hits Elizabeth Shue’s character in LEAVING LAS VEGAS and the rape after. It is one of the most disturbing scenes that stays with me because it felt so real.

The final pre-epilogue act in the final book of the series sees the old notions about the Sorting Hat tossed out the window; the surviving students of Hogwarts don’t sit at their designated house tables, they just sit, divisions based on some external assessment of who they were at age 11 set aside at long last.…