Shave and a Haircut

Two hundred bits!

...times have certainly changed, but the joy of a hot towel shave has not. It was worth every one of the twelve dollars.

Pre-K Race To The Top?

Balls.

...in which a girl from New Zealand terrorizes every Whovian

A perfect remembrance for Pete Seeger

From The Mudflats: Rest in Peace Pete Seeger (1919-2014) http://feedly.com/e/R1NfO34P

I'll play him in school tomorrow. Be sure of it.

Comments Sections Are Despicable

Does anyone else lament the departure of the days when racists said what they meant? I'm so tired of reading racist things said in code by people who swear that they're not racist "but we have to accept that single parents/urban kids/immigrants/minorities simply don't have the abilities/education/values that the rest of us do."

Look, if your sentence starts with something along the lines of, "I'm not racist/sexist/homophobic, but...", guess what: you are, and you need to stop it now, asshole.

The American Way

Me: We're out of flour.
The Boy: Let's buy some more.
Me: Why don't you just make some?
The Boy: How do you do that?
Me: Well, the first step is to grow some wheat.
The Boy: Let's just buy some.

"Gangbangers in Chicago"

For some reason, whenever I encounter someone talking about how the NRA only represents law-abiding gun owners and not criminals, the rest of what that person has to say on any topic ever falls into my "likely to be bullshit" folder. When the term "gangbangers" shows up in the same comment, the rest of what that person has to say on any topic ever falls into my "likely to be bullshit from a racist" folder. Somehow, "gangbangers" never look like this.

Names Matter

I hope my insistence on learning what kids want (and should) be called has ever had half of the impact this kid felt.

"At the start of a new semester, I walk into a math class. My teacher is blond and blue-eyed . . ."

Places and Times

Really, folks? You're going to spend MLK Day arguing over whether it was appropriate for one sportsball guy to talk rudely of another sportsball guy in the wake of triumphing at the sportsball AND you're going to turn it into a big ugly racist thing?

I despair.

Mr. T would have something to say about this

Honestly, I can't believe full-grown, nominally educated adults take this "speaking in tongues" bullshit seriously. You're babbling gibberish, not yakking the divine language. If that's how your god talks, you can keep him.

Of relevance.

Edit: incidentally, if you can hear her, apparently you are not Satan. Congratulations!

Dear Person Who Invented Package Tracking,

Screw you. It's killing my productivity to be sitting here F5ing all day. Love, Me