They’re underpaid. Their efforts to discipline unruly students is thwarted at every turn. They bring in their own supplies, and spend countless unpaid hours on lesson planning. It may have appeared that our society had done everything conceivable to remove …
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Re: the photo here, a reader notes: There are 33.7 KWh in a gallon of gas. At those prices, you would have to spend $5.38 on the electric to get the equivalent ‘umph’ as the gas. What he fails to …
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I’m with you, pal. I used to attend the large tech conferences in Orlando. I wonder how many event organizers today are thinking: Ya know what? People of intelligence and compassion resent the living hell out of this state. Let’s …
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This reverence for semi-automatic machine guns is most certainly among America’s current cultural phenomena that mystifies Europe (and the rest of the world), but it’s hardly the only one.
Like most people in their twenties, my kids occasionally use vulgar language. A couple of points: They do it sparingly, They don’t do it in front of inappropriate company, and They didn’t learn it from me when they were in …
A reader reacts to Alex Jones’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and notes: One less (sic) bat****crazy person in the media. It would be nice to see Fox News next. I share your joy here, but I caution you not to …
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Even if Donald Trump doesn’t go to prison, it will remain an interesting bet as to how many of his so-called “friends” actually will. Obviously, there are the household name felons like Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Steven Bannon and the …
The meme here suggests something that is very hard to deny about American politics: Republican congresspeople are begging for support from the only person in American history since Benedict Arnold who tried to overthrow the nation. It’s hard to imagine …
I wish I could say that this quote here from Pat Robertson was simply manufactured for its shock value. It wasn’t; it came from a letter he sent to his fan base as a fundraiser. The televangelist par excellence stepped …
When we see memes like this, unless we know the people who created them, we never really know what they mean. If this was posted by a progressive, it would suggest that Trump supporters will one day come to realize …
