I left my DH on the couch this a.m. watching last night's Stars game. He's going to be so disappointed they lost. My Sabres play tonight. We started dating just before the infamous Stars/Sabres game of June 19, 1999. (Definitely no goal!)

Funny Kurt Vonnegut quote:

I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, "Isaac is up in heaven now." It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke.

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Kindergartner Charged With Felony Tantrum

Avon Park, Fla., is a zero-tolerance kind of place.

On March 28, Desre'e Watson, a 6-year-old kindergarten student at Avon Elementary School, had a bad morning. She cried. She wailed. She kicked. She scratched. She hit a teacher. That's what the police say, anyway.

The police? That's right. To subdue the unruly kindergartner, school officials phoned Avon Park's police department ("committed to enhancing the 'Quality of Life' of the community"). When the cops arrived, young Desre'e attempted to resist arrest by crawling under a table. But Avon Park's finest pulled her out, cuffed her, put her in a police cruiser, drove her to the county jail, and charged this 50-pound menace with a felony and two misdemeanors. The police report is below.

"When there is an outburst of violence," Police Chief Frank Mercurio told a local news station, "we have a duty to protect and make that school a safe environment for the students, staff and faculty. That's why, at this point, the person was arrested regardless what the age." Let's hope his message gets across to those brats in the neonatal wards.

Oh. My. God. Yeah, let's traumatize the kid even more. That'll help.

What? Is that an April Fool's joke?

Why didn't they call the child's parent or guardian? What is wrong with people?

Why didn't they call the child's parent or guardian? What is wrong with people?

Well, from the police report it sounds like they weren't able to get ahold of the parents.

The kindergarten tantrum felon's name is Desre'e. I wonder if she freaked out after an introduction to punctuation.

The kindergarten tantrum felon's name is Desre'e. I wonder if she freaked out after an introduction to punctuation.

Tea. On. My. Monitor.

I just don't get it. A kindergarten teacher -- and the school administration -- are supposed to be early childhood experts. And they believe that the best way to resolve a five-year-old's tantrum is to have big strange men chase her into a corner, cart her off in handcuffs, and take her to a police station?!

Yeah, I don't think that a child's tantrum should qualify under zero tolerance. If she shivved the teacher, sure.