Teacher’s aide deciding it’s appropriate to yank out the tooth of an autistic student because his playing with his wiggly tooth was “a distraction.” And, uh, they pulled out the wrong tooth. A Massachusetts mom is furious after she says a teacher’s aide yanked the wrong tooth out of her 10-year-old son’s mouth. Sabrina Grant […]
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David Brooks: Why can’t today’s memorial designers think straight about just authority? Some of the reasons are well-known. We live in a culture that finds it easier to assign moral status to victims of power than to those who wield power. Most of the stories we tell ourselves are about victims who have endured oppression, […]
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It seems that many of the supporters that Obama had in 08 are disappearing because of a bad case of disillusionment. Investors.com: Gallup finds a deep crack in Obama support emerging among whites, still statistically by far the largest group of voters. His support among several white subgroups is down 5% now among registered voters […]
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We don’t honor the douche of the week very often, mostly because on your average week, it’s a tough call as to who’s douchier. But this week it’s no fucking contest as to who the biggest douche is. Michael Tomasky of Newsweek, take it away. There’s only one way to say something like this, and […]
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Gee, who could have guessed that when cops are given additional powers to pull people over, they will not only use them, but find various ways to abuse them via various civil rights violations? SFGate: Johnson contends that distracted driving laws are being abused by law enforcement. Distracted driving laws are meant to discourage a […]
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I wish this woman would stop by my home and “burglarize” it sometime. A woman has been accused of breaking into a house, washing the dishes, tidying and vacuuming before leaving a bill with her name on it for $75. When police confronted Susan Warren, 53, about the alleged early-morning break in, she told them […]
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Principals using their powers to arbitrarily punish graduating seniors for riding their bikes to school. Reason: Dozens of students at Michigan’s Kenowa Hills High School decided to ride their bicycles to school as a senior prank. They talked to the local police department and managed to get an official escort to the parade, and they […]
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Poor Wittle Baby. Somebody hurt his feewings. Groves says he’s already contacted the Lexington mayor’s office and the Human Rights Commission, and, despite this being an issue of free speech, he wants the message taken down immediately. “It made me uncomfortable,” said Groves. I’m, like, totally tolerant of other people and their beliefs, and, like, […]
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Apparently Obama views guys like Anwar al-Awlaki as so dangerous to America that he can be labeled as a terrorist and droned without any semblance of due process despite being an American citizen, yet soldiers who die because of al-Awlaki’s direct influence are not victims of terrorism. Reason: The cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, […]
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A school nurse locking a student in a back room in the office as he is gasping for air from an asthma attack while she simply watches him and refuses to give him a prescription inhaler that was clearly marked with both his name and the correct dosage because the proper paperwork wasn’t submitted. And […]