Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

TheBlackSheep wrote:You dirty apostate.

You're so kind to me.

I'm sad that the troll/HCO haven't come over here. It's been a long time since we've had one of those 'round here. No one has called me apostate in quite some time.

So you can't be cultured unless you embrace European colonialism. Got it.

Well, I just finished my master's, start the PhD in fall, and am juggling teaching at two colleges and a part time delivery job -- and in between I'm revising papers to try and publish and working on conference presentations -- so yeah, I'm pretty busy. It is really settling in that I will always be...

Yeah teens with parents is cool.

And when I said that, I meant that the way it was designed wasn't for teens, not to say anything of the way it was branded.

I watched the show. I liked it for a number of reasons, some of which yayfulness has laid out. I think it is a good show, but it isn't a show for teenagers. It is a show for people who are in positions of support (parents, teachers, etc.) to better understand the situation students are in today. I t...

Of course, that's not to say what is right. That's a totally different question. This reader is totally entitled to believe all but the most extreme of conservatives to be morally wrong and bad members of the church. They should just be intellectually honest to say that they want an extremely conser...

The problem with political alignment is that it is self-assessed and changes based on positionality. That is, you get to decide what you call yourself (liberal, conservative, left of center, right of center) without necessarily having any sort of data to back up your position. This leads to people i...

Portia wrote:I know there are Trump-supporting (and/or Hillary-hating) women

You mean, more than half of white women? http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/ ... vote-trump

Is it true that some of the mainstream blogs are now at least as liberal as I am except I guess technically Mormon, still? I find it surprising, and I'm wondering if that means there's a lot of polarization in people's wards/Mormon circles. The Mormons (ETA: in my non-digital life) aren't really an...

That said, I also suspect that most people who really believe "kissing is simulated sex" have never actually had sex. My first thought too. Also, I really hate the conception of people avoiding things because of "what it might lead to." We're talking about adults, here, who are ...

TheBlackSheep wrote:I just... why does this matter? Why do you have to know whether it's okay? They aren't hurting anyone. Just let it be. This kind of thing confuses me.

BECAUSE WHAT IF HIS WIFE IS ACCIDENTALLY PORNOGRAPHY

There are some cool free professor-written textbooks out there. Example . A physics I textbook on classical mechanics, but Page 12 (37 of the PDF), paragraphs 2 and 3 talks about blood sugar and the brain and how to leverage that knowledge to avoid a bad time to study. It actually goes quite a bit ...

We've shared a few passwords (Netflix for example) but I never remember them.

Amity wrote:It's possible we're in a Facebook academic group together! Does this person have red hair and a first name that starts with S?

Yep, looks like that's them. I posted in that thread, in case you're curious (not that I'm that hard to stalk.)

Also, wryness, I have a friend who's collecting info about incidents that have happened at higher-education institutions. If you're willing, could you share some more information about what's been happening at your school? (PM is fine if you don't want to post it publicly.) Hrmm, just saw someone i...

Portia wrote:Finally FINALLY met with the chair of the English department at my grad school (and wrote and submitted a piece to a contest that actually stands a chance of being winnable!).

I didn't even realize you were in a program. What's the program, and where is it?

Emiliana wrote:Grading final essays for the unit I just finished with my AP language students. Apparently I have taught them nothing in the past 10 weeks.

Oh man I feel this so hard.

mic0 wrote:Mmmm, los hermanos was tasty.

Noooo. Bad Mico.

I just complain to management and make them send a cleaning crew. That's not my job.