Deep-fried Kool-Aid: [link]
Yuck!
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
sj - Jun 20, 2011 6:30:16 am PDT #13315 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Consuela - Jun 20, 2011 6:31:18 am PDT #13316 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My brother came over last night with his family, and my 3-yo niece had a scratch on her face. Apparently this is the 3rd time she's been scratched or hurt by the same little girl at her pre-school. The pre-school teachers won't even tell my brother the name of the other girl, but my niece has reported it. The pre-school apparently won't or can't do anything to stop the fighting, so my brother took his daughter out of pre-school.
It's okay at the moment because his in-laws are staying with them for a while and they're providing full-time child-care, but I'm just astonished that the pre-school isn't doing anything about the other girl. Is that normal?
ION, we finally got some summer weather here: it stayed warm after sunset last night for once! And it was warm enough this morning I didn't need a jacket. How pleasant!
Aims - Jun 20, 2011 6:32:52 am PDT #13317 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
sumi - Jun 20, 2011 6:34:05 am PDT #13318 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Hey, today is National Vanilla Milkshake Day!
tommyrot - Jun 20, 2011 6:37:01 am PDT #13319 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That's pretty ... wow.
Yeah, well... that sucks.
The Supreme Court is more conservative than it's been in, what, 50 years?
Or maybe it'd be more accurate to say the Supreme Court is very pro-corporate?
brenda m - Jun 20, 2011 6:40:56 am PDT #13320 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Both are true.
Consuela - Jun 20, 2011 6:42:15 am PDT #13321 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
That's pretty ... wow.
Aims, it looks like the determination was made on a fairly narrow finding that the procedural requirements were not met. That part of the decision was unanimous. So we can't really blame just Scalia and Alito on that--even Sotomayor and Ginsburg concurred on that element (if not on the other parts of the decision).
I can see why the Supremes would be leery about granting certification to such an enormous and ill-defined class of plaintiffs, even if all their claims were later found to be justified (and I'm sure most of them were).
Amy - Jun 20, 2011 6:45:12 am PDT #13322 of 30001
Because books.
Consuela, in my experience with preschools, if a child is a behavior problem to the extent of hurting other kids, the parents are contacted and generally it's explained that if the child can't understand the rules or control herself with certain expectations, *that* child would be removed.
And in most public schools now, there's simply a no-tolerance policy when it comes to hitting or hurting other kids.
So yeah, really strange that his daughter is coming home injured and they're not doing anything about it.
zuisa - Jun 20, 2011 7:04:18 am PDT #13323 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Hey everyone!! Guess who's home?!
I am once again in possession of a basically unlimited internet plan and so will therefore be a permanent fixture here until I ship back out again!!
Sparky1 - Jun 20, 2011 7:09:55 am PDT #13324 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Welcome back, zuisa. How are your sealegs?
Josh Blackman has some analysis of the Wal-Mart opinions up already if you're interested in the legalease: [link]