I'm not sure. They've got a few thousand followers, so I can't really keep track of who's a regular. Usually, the only controversial stuff there is whenever they post something about vaccines, there will be a bunch of anti-vaxxer crap in the comments, but I can just roll my eyes at that without getting emotionally invested.

The Common Core math thing bugs me because there's almost nothing new about it. It's basically the same math that's been taught in most public elementary schools for a decade or so. And also all the same "I can't understand my kid's math homework" complaints, but now with "Common Core" labels.

It's basically the same math that's been taught in most public elementary schools for a decade or so.

I think the people who complain the loudest about it haven't had children in school for over a decade. (Wait, did that make sense? I mean the complainers are of an age where their "kids" have been out of elementary school for WAY more than a decade. So their "kids" wouldn't have been taught this.)

Besides, that stupid graphic is designed to make people rail against Common Core, when an equally confusing graphic could be made to show how weird "old math" really is. Bah.

I don't get how people like that even tie their shoelaces in the morning. (I feel like "people like that" covers most of the recent conversation.)

Ryan has been witness to some racist comments in his class. In frelling Prep. There's a girl who recently started in his class whose parents are both Chinese; one girl told her that her face was too round. Ryan himself has been informed that he "wasn't born here". (He was more bemused than upset, being as how he was totes born here. But still.)

Yesterday I encountered someone on an internet far, far from b.org who stoutly maintained that we should all avoid vaccinations because every time your immune system is activated, it causes brain damage.

Yesterday I encountered someone on an internet far, far from b.org who stoutly maintained that we should all avoid vaccinations because every time your immune system is activated, it causes brain damage.

Did they grow up on an Ebola farm? Because that could be evidence in favour.

billy needs a Like button.

Did they grow up on an Ebola farm?

I was at a party over the weekend, and I was talking about Ebola, like you do (hey, there were several healthcare-type people, so we were geeking out), and one woman asked, COMPLETELY serious, "Umm...what's Ebola?"

I started to explain (the layman's explanation; not the science geek explanation), and she started waving her hands IN MY FACE and said, "Ugh, no! I HATE medical stuff! STOP!"

Okay, (1) YOU asked ME, you dimwit. (2) Raaaaaaaage. (3) How do you live in a world with TV news and the internet and co-workers who talk about things and not even know what Ebola is? I don't mean "How can you not know its epidemiology?" or "How can you not know what type of virus it is?" I just mean "It's been on the news FOR WEEKS HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE HEARD THE WORD "EBOLA"?!?!?

Okay, (1) YOU asked ME, you dimwit. (2) Raaaaaaaage. (3) How do you live in a world with TV news and the internet and co-workers who talk about things and not even know what Ebola is? I don't mean "How can you not know its epidemiology?" or "How can you not know what type of virus it is?" I just mean "It's been on the news FOR WEEKS HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE HEARD THE WORD "EBOLA"?!?!?

Clearly in her case it was a SARS farm. (I hope it was outside Boston, because wouldn't that be fun to say with the accent? SAHS fahm. SAAAAAHS Faaaaaahm. No, not the free-range SAAAAAAHS, we kept it in the baaaahn.)

?!, Teppy. (there are some thoughts I literally do have to make a conscious effort to stop having, because I do have a dormant germ-phobia, and ebola is kind of one, but still)