FACING THE GIANTS

Just watched part of FACING THE GIANTS, and I would have thought it was a satire of people who try to connect football with some sort of Southern Evangelical Worldview, except that I have met too many people who think Jesus was an SEC fan. 

Assholes Across The Spectrum

Every so often, you discover that an individual is an amoral, self-serving bastard, who is only interested in protecting his own ass. Which is fair enough. 

Maybe I am a bit of an idealist, but when when I discover that a person who answered to the title EDUCATOR was one of those bastards, I get really upset. Very upset. 

WWII, Whatever.

As I have seen things talking about the outbreak of WWI (the subject of my master's essay), I wonder how many of my high school students understand what a turning-point in world history these events really are. 

Even more worrisome, do they care?

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/10/286407698/quiz-what-came-out-of-world-war-i?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=npr&utm_campaign=nprnews&utm_content=03112014

Thoughts on Debra in the ICU

As I sit here in ICU, I want shake Mom. 

Dammit. You are one of the most irrepressible creatures I know. Your first daughter-in-law said that you were "too mean to die" and "would out-live us all." Matt is tough as Hell because of the way you treated him. I missed a week of school at your right hand. 

Wake. The. Fuck. Up. 

Dad needs you. Pony up. Be a big girl. Live for somebody else, because that's what really defines human... The ability to understand the needs of another. 

Matt needs you. We all need you, gods-fucking-dammit. 

Put on your Big Girl Pants and Come. Back. 

Weird World

I work as a teacher in an Ohio high school. I have no access to a drug locker.  However, if I posted to social media that I needed a Xanax, I would be chased out the door before the pixels dried on my post. 

If I were working in the medical field, however, would anybody give a fuck?

You Know That You Have Gotten Old...

You know that you have gotten old when all you old friends have become vocal conservatives. 

Today's DeMotivation