Would you like to have color? If so, the cut/color means you spend 4 unplanned dollars and get something you want. I'm assuming you wouldn't get a mani/pedi without the groupon, so it's spending $17 extra.

I am kind of a hardass about not letting groupons make me spend money I wasn't planning to spend anyway.

Damn, I missed le n's rant, but it sounds like it was a doozy. le n, much power to you in squashing this asshat.

In better news, a bunch of Catholic high school students reacted with outrage when the local diocese tried to tell them that SSM was evil: [link]

Go kids.

In better news, a bunch of Catholic high school students reacted with outrage when the local diocese tried to tell them that SSM was evil:

Yeah, Fuck You Catholic Church. Again. Also, way to go civil, smart outraged kids. I understand the Church's stance against SSM (stupid as it is) but I don't get why they'd want to stigmatize adopted kids.

Bearing in mind that this is the institution in Spain that regularly stole children from unwed mothers (telling the mothers that the children died) to farm out to their favorite Catholic families and castrated Dutch boys who had the temerity to bring charges of sexual molestation against the church.

I encourage my wife to schism off and form a Not Evil version of the Catholic Church about once a month.

Bearing in mind that this is the institution in Spain that regularly stole children from unwed mothers (telling the mothers that the children died) to farm out to their favorite Catholic families and castrated Dutch boys who had the temerity to bring charges of sexual molestation against the church.

Also, when Jewish children were hidden by Catholic orphanages or Catholic families during the Holocaust, some of them were baptized, and the official statement issued by the Pope said that, if these children were orphaned, then they should remain with the Catholic families or institutions and be raised as Catholics, rather than being returned to their surviving relatives.

'suela, that article makes me hopeful. The current direction of the Catholic Church disheartens me. Twelve years of Catholic education, and I do not ever remember this kind of intolerance.

I do not believe fish goes on pizza. I feel like a pizza law has been violated.

There is actually a pizza law (for traditional Neapolitan pizza): [link] This confers DOC status, and only pizza conforming to the standards may be called pizza napolitana.

That being said, anchovies are a variation on pizza napolitana. Because they are plentiful in the waters surrounding Italy, it has been used as a pizza topping for centuries. My father makes a wonderful pizza with anchovies, hot peppers, and sliced tomatoes. So good.

Hawaiian pizza has made it to Italy as well. There's nothing wrong with ham and pineapple on a pizza. Just like there's nothing wrong with capers and artichokes either. I'm an equal opportunity pizza-topping supporter. It's all good.

le n, I'm sorry about caveman coworker. It just proves that education can't teach the stupid out of people.

So, I am not sure that the person in question needs to do documentation. That is, the person requested a letter, he decided not to write the letter.

Most people with a shred of fucking social skills could have negotiated that situations without making the person feel like shit. We get letter requests all the time and this person may not have been high on the list. So what? Not really a problem.

He holds it together about 70-80% of the time, but that odd 20% get really fucked up.

20-80 rule!

You know, there are some organizations that just can't - or won't - learn until something forces them to at least change the appearance of how they operate. I once worked in an office where there was one guy who would make verbal attacks of a sexual nature on any woman who he felt threatened his male superiority. Women in the office complained. At one point the organization was peer reviewed and the reviewers said he was a lawsuit just waiting to happen. They did nothing and, finally, he left on his own.

Thank you, Jesse. I'll go with cut and color. I've just been craving a mani-pedi because sandal season is here, but I can do that at home.

Best of luck, le nubian!! Sounds like a tricky situation and I'm glad you are there to advocate for your students.