Author: chris
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Maxistentialism: PoliticsUSA: The lesson Republicans should have taken from Monday’s…
Maxistentialism: PoliticsUSA: The lesson Republicans should have taken from Monday’s…
The lesson Republicans should have taken from Monday’s IRS hearings is “be careful what you wish for.” One of the recommendations based on the audit is “to conduct a review to assess how the IRS monitors I.R.C. sections 501©(4)(6) organizations to ensure that political campaign…
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Hank Green being Hank… This is why I’m okay with the internet (in spite of 4chan and its ilk)
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[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A photograph of a baby meerkat just past the camera, standing on its hind legs. TEXT: “Okay. Look at me. Look at me. Look me in the eyes. Everything is going to work out great. You are clever and you can do this. You can do this, and you will do this. You are going to do great.”]
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What if the Starks didn’t make stupid decisions? x
“Okay, I won’t trust you then”
this is the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen
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I believe what I said was “wiggly, sticky, baby thing.” I have found that there are lots of different things different children can be: Loud, adorable, terrible, violent, peculiar, insightful…but the one thing that they invariably are is sticky.
There are few children I adore, but I shall use this phrase to describe them with all my heart. And my superior temporal gyrus.
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My class today
Me: So when you see the 4 year old boy pull the little girl’s hair…
Students: He likes her!
Me: Now they are around 11 or 12 and he grabs her arm and wrestles her to the ground even though she calls him a jerk and yells at him to leave her alone.
Students: That is just how boys are.
Me: Now they are 18 and he grabs her arm and–
Students: Oh, that’s not okay.
Me: Really? How would he know? How would she know? How would you know? You just told me that for the first 17 years of these children’s lives that you thought it was cute, sweet, and natural for a boy to grab a girl and be rough with her.
Students: Oh.
Me: Oh, is right. -
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