eBay doesn’t get the IRS involved until you hit like $20k a year man

It was much more fun than my actual thesis topic, Roman centurions

the paper I wrote in my “how to write a history thesis” class was about shifting rhetorical strategies on both sides of the prohibition debate between the passage of the 18th and 21st amendments

He wanted to, but Dick Wolf wouldn’t release him from his L&O contract. TV guide covered this heavily.

Jenkem making it to local news remains one of the best pranks of the millennium

Apollo 13

Oxygen is very bad and should never be used

I showed this to my wife and she said “I’m gonna end this fucker” so thanks and start running

If I ever told my wife about clavicular she’d end me

They dedicated the season to the brave mujahideen

Yeah same. I probably say “hahahahaha hahaha FUCK YOU” in my head seven or eight times a day

SOCCER

Saw the original 3D release and my friend who normally hid his emotions unless he was very drunk was reduced to a sobbing mess by the scope of it all. I guess I should try to see the imax!!

My 80 year old neighbor at my old place nearly got himself (and me) killed by Yellowjackets… I was clearing brush on a hillside and he took it upon himself to come join me with his leaf blower. He stepped in a ground nest and got stung 80 times and was hospitalized for a day

I’m seeing double — four jakes!!

Would me popping on to discord to react right now help or make things worse?

Sat in on my friend’s high school Econ class last week where he taught that by a very narrow definition this is technically true, but that every other tax we have is extremely regressive. If high schoolers can grasp it, why can’t the media?

Chart guys: anyone can walk into an ER and get the absolute minimum of acute care in 4-8 hours or more. What more do you want????????????

Last few lines hit like a ton of bricks for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that the high school where I teach just had two kids die in two weeks. Practicing being adults indeed

My take as a middle/high school teacher is that all the attention phones suck away makes learning harder. So teens develop fewer / worse skills than the education system expects them to have at a given age, which makes them feel dumb, which makes class pointless, which makes the phone more tempting

not literally bullied but!

As a high school English teacher I’m the token dude. What sucks is that they bullied me into being the department chair

Gotta pop that new in shrink Othello

Some users engaged in “chat-rooms” where the most common glyph was “A/S/L” whose meaning is lost to the abyss of time

Why is a former paratrooper asking this question? I only did baby army stuff (college rotc) but all our real soldier instructors were very clear that what we were learning was for war and in civilian situations our job was to stay alive in the least violent way possible

The ones at my target all wear chest harnesses with nothing on them and the dorkiest fingerless gloves. It gives me such joy

And yeah it sucks hard that I’ve spent time thinking about this today. I’m an English teacher!!!

They could absolutely do an ICBM strike on Iran but they’d be flying over Russia to get there. And then we’re in MAD territory…

Pentiment screenshot We see a table of food. At the top is a speech bubble of a blonde woman saying “so if you want to make art that matters make it about something important. And make it for someone who cares.”

This is the only screenshot of Pentiment I have ever taken. The hit of dopamine I got from a request for this very screenshot was off the charts

Reid used the word "Negro." It's out of date, but is it now offensive? Is it the new "N" word? Just a blink of an eye ago, "black" was the preferred locution. Jesse Jackson decided it should be "African-American" and the country went along. But the slower adopters (even your humble columnist, who prefers less orotund expressions) sometimes still say "black." How long until that becomes a sin? As for Obama being light-skinned, it's certainly possible that his complexion made him more acceptable to some vestigial racists. For Reid to notice that is not to endorse it. And finally, the president's lack of a "Negro dialect, unless he wants one," was clearly an important asset. Most Americans expect their president to speak standard English. Black (there I go again) speech in America ranges from James Earl Jones to gangsta rap, and it was clearly an advantage that Obama was articulate. When he chooses to adopt a black style, he does it a whole lot more authentically than Hillary Clinton managed in her embarrassing South Carolina appearance at a black (did it again) church. Remember "I ain't noways tired"?

Look, if Mona wants to play the “illiberal and bigoted old statements mean you have no place in the Democratic Party” then pack your bags, you old bat

Yeah the r is different. It’s pronounced Patwick Roy