Kat, that's flabbergasting. I would totally stuff them back in her cubbyhole or mailbox or whatnot with a post-it saying, "Left on my desk in error. Good luck -- that sure is a lot of papers to grade!" But I'm a cold-hearted bitch about stuff that's Not My Job.

Nader is obviously an utter down-to-the-marrow asshat, but does he even have more than eight or nine loyalists anywhere in the US? Isn't he too much of a bitter joke to be a spoiler anymore?

Please?

Random infuriating bullshit:

Afghanistan Approves Death Sentence For Journalist Accused Of Insulting Islam

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The journalist, 23-year-old Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, was sentenced to death last week by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing a report he printed off the Internet to journalism students at Balkh University.

The article asked why men can have four wives but women can't have multiple husbands.

"You know, someone on the internet asked why men can have multiple spouses and woman can't."

"You must die!"

Mr. Nader, With all due respect, sir, fuck you.

erika...this cracked my shit up. I love you.

Reagan's death managed to fuck my commute up at least three different times.

Did not make it out of the house today. My boss doesn't love it when we work from home, but he has been understanding about my crap. I am grateful for that.

I'd rather not be working. I'm not sure if this strange thing is a work ethic or what, but I don't actually care if I get paid for working today or not--stuff still has to get done.

I don't think anyone would really do that anymore. But the fact that Ralph doesn't know that makes him the Michael Scott of ex-progressives. But I'm sure he thought long and hard. That's what she said. I'll miss Edwards, though. He was my guy.ETA: Miracleman, thanks, but it was a quote by Ed Burns. It was a Wire thing. I *wish* it was mine.

Well it's particularly irksome because this is the second teacher who has done it this week. These are district mandated assessments and I'm in charge of making sure they are administered and sent to be scored. But there is a 6 pt written response that teachers are supposed to grade.

I'm tempted to just send them without those 6 points which will push all of those kids out of proficiency. Grrr....

What I will do is grade them and bundle them and mail them.

I am a sick and twisted individual for finding humor in this terrifying incident:

Pilot 'breakdown' diverts flight

An Air Canada flight made an emergency landing in the Irish Republic after a pilot apparently suffered a breakdown.

A passenger said the pilot was carried from the plane shouting and swearing, saying he wanted to talk "to God".

The flight from Toronto to Heathrow landed at Shannon airport after its crew declared a medical emergency. Passengers flew on to London later.

Air Canada has confirmed that a crew member was unwell, but did not confirm he was suffering mental problems.

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One of the passengers, Sean Finucane, said he saw the co-pilot being carried into the cabin in restraints.

"He was very, very distraught. He was yelling loudly at times," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

"He was swearing and asking for God and very distressed. He basically said he wanted to talk to God."

What I will do is grade them and bundle them and mail them.

That's not fair. Is there any way to not grade and have it not mess up the students?

And now the president is fucking up my commute.

I wonder if people in areas that don't suffer presidential visits have any clue how it screws our traffic. I've never heard it mentioned on news reports when they cover visits. It screws the airport traffic too when they fly in as no planes can be near the runway or airspace used for AF1.

Annoyed us just as much for presidents we liked.

That's not fair. Is there any way to not grade and have it not mess up the students?

Nope. Oh well. I'm not busy. It's more that I left the classroom because I hated grading.