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People should listen to that This American Life episode. I had heard about inner city schools before but that really brings it home. It's hard to believe that kind of shit goes down right next door to what we think of as a normal American lifestyle. It's hard to imagine that anyone grows up...

It's a hard fucking problem. I don't know how to fix it, but I think it has to come from families and not from the schools. The teachers just get them too late and they don't have enough time with them. Sadly it's really damn hard to be a good parent if you never had one yourself. Welfare in...

The average school has room for improvement for sure. The high school in my link is unusable and it's because of the kids that are in it and their home situation, not because of the system.

Public schools in decent neighborhoods are fine. Did you listen to theThis American Life episode at Harper High School in Chicago? Any remotely responsible parent would find a way to get their kids out of that place so after that happens all you have left is kids with shitty parents which...

Give it up guys. Everyone in America is JUST AS BAD as a suicide bomber blowing up a bunch of children. JUST AS BAD. You can't judge. Everyone is the same, or worse. JUST AS BAD.

I didn't really take it as her enjoying the betrayal myself. I saw that smile as a kind of "what are you gonna do?" rather than "suck it bitch".

Stephen King called it a 'B' which is about where I would put it. That != terrible. And no, Tyler Perry moviesdo not get good reviews.

These people's opinions > yours.

I don't think Craster was necessarily helping the white walkers. He was doing what he had to to keep himself and his little incest farm alive. He appeases the white walkers, he appeases the Night's Watch, neither of them kill him, or at least that's how it used to go.

They haven't really played up the idea that guests are protected in Westeros although I'm sure that they will before the Red Wedding. Regardless of that though, I don't think that kind of shit carries any weight north of the wall.

It doesn't really matter what the Quran says, most of the people in these groups know next to nothing about it. I bet these dudes didn't speak 10 words of Arabic. It's like in the dark ages when the Bible was only in Latin and the Catholic Church had a monopoly on interpreting it. The crazy...

LOL, you're a real feminist martyr.

Yeah, "always" because you said it was and a few people emailed some muslim dude that can post on Huffington post. You don't think any Christian leader has ever been asked about abortion clinic bombings?

Yeah, way too much angst.

I made beer battered onion rings with leeks once. They were pretty good although obviously quite a bit different from regular onion rings.

Professional reviews of both the books and movie are overwhelmingly positive. It's just hipsterism saying that they suck.

So she's supposed to instantly be a great leader because she got Drogo to let her be on top while they fucked? She made him fall in love with her (and fell in love with him at the same time) and maybe influenced some of his decisions but that doesn't mean she knows how to rule over people or...

I agree. Never really understood the angst over Dany's storyline other than people just wanting her to go right to Westeros and cause the premature end of the series. It seems to me that Dany needs experience and the dragons need time to grow and liberating the slave cities is an excellent way...

Didn't Mad Men miss a season because the actors wanted to get paid?

Just said on CNN that white hat told the FBI that no foreign groups were involved in the bombing and that they were self-radicalized and did the bombing to "protect Islam". How that bombing accomplished that I have no fucking clue.

Seems like a gate like that should stop when it hits something similar to an elevator door for safety if not for it's own protection.

Did anyone else notice that when Jamie fell in the mud his hand fell behind his ear like he was trying to hear a whisper?

I'm not clicking a link that says "pictures" in the ball shaving thread.

Basketball nostalgia > Debating the meaning of words

"Drakkaris" is also the word she says when she wants them to burninate something, so that could be confusing as well.

They might if they read one of the many websites that post pictures saying "They cast the part of Ramsey Bolton! Here's a picture of the actor." There's a shitload of GoT discussion on the internet and different people have different ideas about what constitutes a spoiler.

Possibly, unless somebody grabbed them. The crazy thing about those mass shootings is that if at any point any 3 people decided to rush the shooter it would be over but everyone always runs away which is a best case scenario for the shooter. Also shooting means zero chance of escaping alive...

They come back just as sharp as they are brand new too. I have never used anything as sharp as a Shun fresh from sharpening. I actually samurai chopped a copy of the Economist magazine in half once and it sliced all the way through it, no tearing. Probably not a recommended use for a nice...

Bolton mentions that his bastard is going to Winterfell a couple times on the show so I don't think it's that hard to make that guess. As far as Jozu goes, I don't think most people would remember things like Bolton's sigil or even recognize what it is but it's possible that he just reads...

Cool video. That alleyway quick draw in Collateral is one of my all time "OH SHIT" moments in the movies. People who know Tom say he is just the most intense, driven person on the planet. He can't hardly have a normal conversation with a human being but give him something to do and turn him...

If you are going to go there, at least have a funny joke. Those are the two lamest jokes it's possible to make about that situation.

Start an "everybody feel sorry for Mist" thread in the Grown Up Stuff forum.

I think it's pretty common when people are cheating on their spouse to then get irrationally paranoid about them doing the same thing to you. After all, you do it so her doing the same is not too hard to imagine.

You are a few cop murders away from achieving this dream.

Prison as a goal is NOT out of reach. Dream big, you can do it.

This thread couldn't be further off the tracks and filled with people making proclamations about things they have never experienced. That said, that prison article was a very good read.

The getting shanked in prison thing is overblown. The child rapers and celebrities or high profile prisoners of any sort almost always get put in solitary for their own protection.

Jesus Christ, there is a political thread for retards that want to go "The Democrats are the bad guys!" "No the Republicans are the bad ones!" over and over for the rest of eternity.

When Obama was elected I really thought that he would step back some of the post 9/11 abuses of the bill of rights but not only did he not step them back, he actually stepped them up. It's not a good sign.