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Apep

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  1. Charlie Brown has changed since the last time I read the funny papers.
  2. Well-acted and great use of sound and color, but nowhere near as gory as I anticipated and lacking in both sadism and ruthlessness. I suppose an ordinary guy stumbling through a vengeance quest is refreshing compared to the efficiency of a John Wick, but the movie lacked oomph. It had the dramatic tension of Bluto fighting Popeye over Olive Oyl.
  3. There’s no need to discuss John Connor being erased. The last Terminator movie introduced the idea that these are alternate timelines in a multiverse. This was just about the only good thing it did.
  4. If the district says there is no individual school policy, then it seems suspicious that an individual school has a policy. Maybe the district investigates and later sacks or reassigns the school admin?
  5. Especially if the district (or state) has a no-pass, no-play rule.
  6. That depends entirely on where you work and the facts and circumstances. For example, in a state with strong unions, the teacher could have told the principal to fuck off and not gotten fired. Other times, policies may violate the law and create a situation where the employee cannot be fired for refusing to violate the law.
  7. Looks like you missed the last paragraph in the article. There is no minimum grade policy according to the district.
  8. I still have the option to revert on my personal gmail as well as my business gmail.
  9. Unsurprising. At my wife’s school, the admin will change the grades after year end to make more students pass.
  10. John Jay is the college the US Catholic Church hired in 2002 to produce a report on its sex abuse scandal. Easy to see how they were qualified in retrospect.
  11. Speaking of addresses, one night I was taking 281 down to Austin. At some random place, my wife asked what city we were in. I told her that I didn’t think we were in a city at that point. She insisted that we must be in a city. I explained that we’ll always be in a county, but some areas aren’t in a city. You may remember this story, since I told it at the old site. I have an update: My wife and I are at a back to school teacher party recently. She brought up this story and I explained it to the women we were talking to. Guess what, one of them never knew about unincorporated areas either.
  12. I don't know if it is a part of hip hop culture. The most frequent users I see are lower class whites, mostly rednecks with little or no familiarity with hip hop.
  13. Sometimes, when you hear a dog whistle, it says more about you than about the other person. If you associate anything in my OP with one particular race, you either need to be exposed to a more diverse selection of the lower class and ignorant or stop associating being lower class and ignorant with one race.
  14. Has anyone else noticed that the apostrophe appears to be dying out, at least when it comes to the possessive? And it’s not just the apostrophe, but the “s”, too. It started with “baby momma”, it has spread to everything. “My mother boyfriend” or “my girlfriend son” and other aberrations now crop up in my Facebook feed with some regularity. While it was annoying, it is starting to grow on me. It is stripped down and functional, depending merely on the algebra of word order. Plus, while we lose some precision with the loss of that sibilance, we gain a wonderful opportunity for humor. “Mother girlfriend”? Lesbians or incest? Anyone given it much thought?
  15. The solution isn't burning it down to the ground. The solution is disestablishing the Holy See, the Vatican, and the Knights of Malta as sovereign states. If cardinals and popes can be served in Italy and extradited, most of the problem will go away. Financial and general corruption by organized crime will also greatly diminish as as the profits of corrupting Vatican officials decrease due to better oversight of money laundering and other issues. If all of this happens, you might also see an attack on "church taxes" in places like Germany where believers must pay an additional income tax to receive services. The idea is that if we limit the opportunity for graft, the corrupt will move on to different scams.
  16. My dad told me that play was called,”N* go long.” I think he said he heard that on a Cosby album way back when, but I’m guessing it was someone else. He did once tell me about a restaurant in Arlington back when he was at UTA.
  17. I went over 40 hours a couple of times while working at a Big 4.
  18. I’d really like to tell my teenage son how I spent 9/11, but getting dismissed from class and then going home to alternate between watching CNN and fucking his mother the rest of the day doesn’t seem like a good story.
  19. The lege changed the laws on gun ranges a few years ago to make it almost impossible to sue a gun range for nuisance if your county doesn't have a noise ordinance. When you find a litigator, your first two questions should be whether your county has a noise ordinance and, if not, how can you get around that problem.
  20. Back in the late '80s, I first heard the n-word from my then-stepmother and her dad, including the Daniel Boone song. They were rednecks from Burleson. Can't say I've heard the n-word from too many others since then. The most shocking time I heard it was about 12 years back. My ex-wife's grandmother was talking about doing some landscaping work at her house and how she "hired a n-r" to do the work and he was the nicest person. My maternal grandparents are Hispanic, but both grew up in black neighborhoods. I've never heard them say the N-word, but I've heard my grandfather talk about wetbacks and my grandmother talk about how blacks and non-blacks should stick to their own race when it comes to marriage. Given that two of her sisters, one brother, and both of her children married whites, I've always been a bit confused about where she draws the lines for race, but not really.
  21. The announcers just said Ehlinger is like Tim Tebow.
  22. Everyone is arguing about burning swooshes and I'm wondering why Kirk Lazarus has a Nike ad.
  23. Apparently, the pic is stolen from a 24 year-old pro-life teacher. The essay may or may not be real, but it has been deleted from the source website.
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