'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My favorites are the people who normally take the bus/metro, but will drive if the weather is bad. Because if you're not used to driving in normal weather, what better time to give it a try?
Right? This always flummoxes me. If it's snowing and icy, why would you drive when you have a nice warm Metro. Except, of course, if there is a lot of walking involved. Still, I trust other drivers in bad weather WAY less than usual, which keeps me off the road.
Hmm, yes, a nice warm walk to the bus stop followed by a nice warm wait for the bus then a nice warm wait on the train platform until the underheated train comes along, with another nice warm walk from the station to the office to look forward to. Can't imagine what people are thinking.
WTFF? [link]
WTFF indeed. That is really, truly awful.
My feeling on the school issue is that it's a religious school. Religious schools frequently have rules that students have to abide by the rules of that religion. I think that the school was wrong to expel the students, especially the way they did it, but I think the court decision was reasonable.
Reasonable or not, the humiliation they're going to associate with their sexuality is going to haunt them for a long time.
Reasonable or not, the humiliation they're going to associate with their sexuality is going to haunt them for a long time.
Very much yes. The school dealt with this in a ridiculously idiotic way.
Some of the people who got the first run of coupons couldn't buy boxes before the coupons expired because stores either weren't carrying them yet, or didn't order enough.
That would be me. I'm a tool who didn't realize that they expired. Truly, my own fault for not reading all the details closely. (Note that I'm NOT blaming the government or broadcasters, etc. I realize full well that my slack-ass-ed-ness is to blame for me having to spend $60 instead of $20.)
Religious schools frequently have rules that students have to abide by the rules of that religion.
Yes, but shouldn't that apply to behaviors, not, I don't know, states of being? Caught kissing on school grounds, okay. Identifying oneself as a lesbian? Ugh. Private school, I know, but still.
And, of course, they'd have been in the same situation in the US military, so not like public institutions are covered in glory.