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• Can This Be Real? Man Buys Two ‘Toy Poodles’ Only to Discover Later That They Were Ferrets Jacked Up on Steroids

  April 9, 2013 at 5:06pm

  This reminds me just a bit of the “poneis malditos” (evil My Little Ponies) ads which went viral on YouTube. Will some enterprising Brazilian YouTuber do a “perros ratones, perros hurones” mock ad now about the “toy poodle” ferrets?

• The Stunning 355-Page Mega Report That Reveals the Radical Curriculum at One American College (And How a Golf Game Gone Awry Led to It All)

  April 9, 2013 at 4:58pm

  And to think I was trying to persuade my daughter to add Bowdoin to the Common Application when she was applying to colleges last fall! Most of the Common App schools she applied to (all on the East Coast) have already sent rejection letters (except Dartmouth & Brown); however, she’s already accepted admission & financial aid from a much-closer Midwestern college. Hopefully, it doesn’t have quite as much of a reputation for craziness as Bowdoin appears to show in this report!

• Teen Pens Hilariously Scathing Open Letter After She Didn’t Get Into Her Top Schools: ‘To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me’

  April 5, 2013 at 5:17pm

  Suzy, my daughter applied to 7 East Coast colleges (mostly Ivy League or similar caliber), and has thus far been rejected by 4, probably rejected by a 5th, and no response yet from the last 2. She did, however, also apply to 3 slightly less-selective schools where her ACT composite & GPA were within or above their median range, which all had similar levels of financial aid to the Ivies (love those net price calculators on every college’s website!), and was accepted by all 3 schools. If you haven’t yet chosen a college, try either Franklin College in Indiana, Monmouth College in Illinois, or the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They all have excellent reputations (per the U.S. News & World Report rankings), and the 2 private colleges have excellent financial aid. (I’m not telling which school my daughter will be attending, though!)

• The Touching Story of a Restaurant Fixing a ‘Broken’ Cheeseburger for an Autistic Girl

  March 26, 2013 at 4:51pm

  In reply to OniKaze.

  One of our sons is an autistic young man, soon to be graduating/”ageing out” from high school, and I hope he finds people as understanding as your cousin and his “employers” as an autistic adult. Currently, we plan to create a “sheltered workshop” right at my spouse’s law firm for him, and have him doing basic janitorial/mailroom/file clerk-type duties, with a “break room” for in-between times.
  Bravo to Chili’s for “fixing” the 7-year-old’s cheeseburger! I really appreciate the checkout staff at our local supermarket, who know our autistic son, and are very understanding about letting him take lollipops from the bin at the register (normally free for children only), or giving him his own bag for the treats he’s selected for me to purchase for him.

• Racist? See the Controversial Victoria’s Secret Outfit Yanked From 2012 Fashion Show

  November 12, 2012 at 6:12pm

  She was just posing for the cover art for the next printing of John Norman’s “Blood Brothers of Gor”, which in the original DAW edition from the early 1980s featured a Native American-looking fellow and his scantily-clad female companion riding on the back of a giant bird. By the standards of that 1981 “Gor series” cover art, the Victoria’s Secret model was modestly dressed. ;)
  On the other hand, why in the world did anyone think something like a Plains Indian chief’s “war bonnet” would be an appropriate fashion accessory for a model dressed like a “lust in the dust” fantasy bimbo?

• If You Go See ‘The Hobbit’ and Wonder Why It Looks Weird, Here’s Why

  November 8, 2012 at 3:37pm

  I try to avoid 24fps 3D movies, because they give me headaches & eyestrain, and the 3D glasses don’t usually fit very well over prescription eyeglasses. I know my whole family is planning to watch “The Hobbit” when it comes out in December, but we’ll probably opt for a 2D showing. (Wouldn’t mind trying 48fps 3D once, though.)

• School Allegedly Asks Deaf Preschooler to Change His Name Because Sign Language Version Resembles ‘Weapons’

  August 29, 2012 at 6:46pm

  I would lawyer up and challenge the school district’s idiocy through the IEP appeals process, were I that child’s parents – and if that doesn’t work, I’d sue the district. Hearing 3-year-olds are not expected to be able to spell their own names yet, so why should this deaf 3-year-old be required to finger-spell his name? (If this were happening in an Illinois county within my lawyer spouse’s area of practice, he’d be very interested in representing this family.)

• Massive ‘Flash Mob’ of 300 Terrorizes, Robs Florida Walmart After Local Party Broken Up by Police

  July 18, 2012 at 4:56pm

  The student body of that county’s “alternative high school” (or juvenile detention center) next school year, all in one place.
  On the other hand, maybe it would be better to keep all of them separated, lest they give each other any more “bright ideas.” ;)

• Teen Succumbs to Cancer After Stopping Treatment to Deliver Healthy Baby Boy

  December 28, 2011 at 1:19pm

  Yes, Jenni should not have been fooling around outside of wedlock with her boyfriend; however, I predict that St. Gianna Molla will intercede on her soul’s behalf, because of her sacrifice for her baby’s sake.

• Mom With Cancer Dies After She Refuses Chemotherapy to Save Her Unborn Baby

  October 19, 2011 at 5:16pm

  In reply to South Philly Boy.

  Elrond3737, Gianna Molla is a saint, in heaven, with Jesus. Therefore, if Stacie is with St. Gianna Molla, they are both by definition with Jesus, too. The reason why South Philly Boy was bringing up St. Gianna Molla was because she, too, refused treatment for her cancer, so that her baby could survive until birth. She went above & beyond what the Church would have required in that situation, and that’s why she was recognized as a saint after her death.
  Yes, Stacie is surely with Jesus now, but there are others who made similar heroic sacrifices in heaven with Jesus, too.