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Samson's Wig

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  1. I give this satire a B+. I like it. Needs a bit more over-the-top oomph to get to a solid A.
  2. Don't get me wrong, Squish should return them on principal, but AISD is too busy trying to make certain all campuses are failing equally to give two shits about something silly like conserving resources for a school district with no money.
  3. I think this is likely more a matter of TCU finding the absolute lowest bar possible to demonstrate solidarity with the squishy feeling of college kids than it is a case of anyone actually being offended. And given the gender makeup of the school it may be a smart PR move. When I think of the typical TCU student, however, feminist is not exactly what comes to mind.
  4. Isn't TCU largely made up of female students? I've always thought of it as a women's school, in any event. This tracks.
  5. Order somewhat regularly and tip well, and somehow, magically, the food arrives quickly and hot 99% of the time. Like everything else in life, money solves your problem.
  6. I'd be just fine with banning this shit altogether. It's fucking up most decent places to live.
  7. The closest competitor to HEB in Texas in terms of quality was United. Like HEB, it was a family business and the Snells ran a tight ship. They have/had a premium brand, Market Street, akin to Central Market. However, they sold out to Albertsons, of all the shit-tastic companies, a few years ago. I've only been in a couple of times when visiting family, and the quality, selection, and diversity of items went to shit. They're just a collection of shitty Albertsons now. HEB and United had a longstanding agreement, supposedly, to stay out of each other's markets. After the sale of the United company, HEB promptly bought land in Lubbock and opened up a store a few months ago. I hear it's doing quite well, and I suspect Albertsons/United will be suffering greatly before too long.
  8. Button batteries are activated by saliva. So if they get stuck in the throat they start emitting electricity. If you don't get it out quickly it's not good. In her case, it burned a whole through her trachea and esophagus, creating a fistula between the two. It happened around Halloween and she fought until right before Christmas before passing. 17 months old. It's sadly a very common thing to happen. It manifests a lot like croup in the initial hours, which is what my niece was misdiagnosed with. The result is that the battery sits in there for a day or two and has time to damage things beyond repair.
  9. I'm glad your daughter was okay. My niece died in December after having swallowed a button battery. If you have young ones in the house, keep those button batteries out.
  10. Thank you for providing yet another reason to run off any Clean Water Action person who shows up skulking around the neighborhood.
  11. What do Marxists, evangelicals, academics, Trumpers, progressives, and fly fishermen all have in common? CRT doesn't seem to fit in there, in my opinion.
  12. I know. I didn't want to write that. But yeah. It's still bizarre, and wrong. No need to speed things along with a case of Covid. (and a small percentage of people do leave hospice on their feet). She had access to vaccinations before any of the rest of us and chose to go work in a medical facility everyday unvaccinated. And it clearly wasn't based on some misguided principles, as she has now finally received a shot. I even understand, sort of, that she was hesitant and wanted to wait and see. It was how proud she was of being vaccinated this late in the game that was odd.
  13. Spoke with a woman yesterday, a parent at my kids' school, who was proud she just got her first vaccination shot. My first thought was, "Aren't you a hospice nurse??!‽?" She is. She is a hospice nurse. smdh
  14. It's sad how many things the state is about to have to step in and do for this city. Schools, law enforcement, enforcing voter initiatives. Is it too much to ask that we find some folks somewhere in the middle of the nutbags running the state and the nutbags running this city that we can put in charge for a little while?
  15. Yes, one of the most common areas to flood in the county. They were never going to put a homeless camp there, or at the entrance to River Place. That was nothing but a fuck you to the people they supposedly work for.
  16. The city has already let asshole dog owners and weekend sojourners come in and ruin bull creek, so I guess why not let the homeless finish the job? As someone who lives right up the hill from there and already deals with the occasional vagrant poking around, this won't end well for anybody. Police are already down there frequently due to weekend drunks hanging around. A homeless camp will make things interesting to be sure. But why protect a beautiful natural resource when you can use it for political maneuvering? I honestly don't even know what they're trying to accomplish at this point other than give voters a big middle finger.
  17. There are just no words for how fucking stupid the people running this city are.
  18. Doesn't seem crazy to me. Seems exactly like what the people who are being put in charge have preached. When bussing (the most failed experiment of all failed experiments) didn't get rammed through a couple of years ago, this was the next logical step. No one gives a shit about improving the poorly performing schools. The agenda is about punishing the successful ones. I don't understand it, but it's the people that Austin keeps electing. Lupo ran on a platform of this bullshit, and has never hidden her hatred from anyone not from her neighborhood. This is exactly what they've been working towards. I guess the joke will be on them when there are even fewer students, and therefore way less money, in AISD in the long run. I won't be surprised if the state takes over the district, frankly. Right before Covid hit AISD was one bad grade away from this happening anyway, and they're just doubling down on nonsense that will make things worse. I assume everyone will get a do-over due to the pandemic, but if this is what leadership believes passes for running a school district it's only a matter of time. The most insane part to me is that none of this happened before they slashed budgets back in 2011. And the things being funded by the PTAs are often things that are mandated by federal law be provided by the district, e.g. reading intervention instructors for dyslexic kids. Fuck them for not paying for this shit in the first place. Somedays it feels like the twilight zone in this town.
  19. I doubt it. If anything she'll have to move on to another town when AISD dwindles down to fewer than 10,000 kids.
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