Third-graders plotted to attack teacher

What the whaaaaat? Wow. I mean.... WOW.

WTF? I mean, in 6th grade a bunch of people rose spontaneously and shut the teacher in the coat closet (it had doors like a garage), but it was more of a joke on him. Especially since he was a big burly man who could have gotten out at any time.

No, it is alphabetization or nothing. I have spoken.

If the subject requires a glossary, I don't think it's a good idea to force people to interpret your organizational logic simply to get at what the goddamn words mean. If it requires an effort, most people just aren't going to do it.

The only surgery I've ever had was oral.

I feel like that comment deserves a rimshot.

The only surgery I've ever had was oral.

That's what she said!

You know, if it was a couple of students, I'd think, Wow, serious disturbance going on there, but nine? Okay, I don't really think all nine took it seriously, but it still makes me go, Whaaa?

kids are scary. especially in packs.

re: taxes - and how am I getting refunded MORE than was withheld?

I need to adjust my W-4 to stop this, I want my money throughout the year instead of a refund. No idea how. I am asking my tax guy, I figure I pay him so I should use him for crap like this.

ETA - MORE allowance will lower withholding - check.

I had a professor of ethics in college. She is at a different school now, but is a leading philosopher of moral theory. Her mother is a peace activist and philosopher of ethics and her grandparents are Nobel laureates. Her father was president at Harvard. And in the third grade, she brought windex to school in a plan to poison her teacher. Little kids are immoral little beasts.

I watched a nature show over the weekend that praised the human animal at all stages of development for its ability to cooperate when there's nothing in it for them--separates us from the apes, it does.

I've met kids. I remain unconvinced.

Did I ever tell the story about my dog barking up a storm so that we'd come and let the other dog in?