I really hate when the drama is caused by a character being inexplicably dumb.

I just finished listening to Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, and the "tension" of the climactic battle at the end of the book is driven by inexplicable stupidity.

( Spoilers for Red Queen )

I caught Whooping Cough as a 20 year old in 1993 ( Read more... )

This is a dramatic re-enactment of an actual deposition.

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I once had to work closely with a person (M) who was this fucking stupid and this fucking literal, and OMG, it was horrible.

I'll admit that while a part of me is glad that the spirit of protest is not dead on our college campuses, I enjoy reading the various Demand lists of various student groups.

The latest is from Bellvue College Students United. Bellvue College is a State Community College in a suburb of Seattle. It's less than a mile from my cousin's house.

( The chickens have come home to roost when it comes to decades of substandard education funding in the US. )

If you are happening to have to deal with people who are using #transracial as anything but a mocking of teh stupids, it burnz! As in they think it's a legit, real thing, because if Caitlyn Jenner can ...

This is the logical fallacy you're looking for

Said to the hearing child of deaf parents.

"*FYI* By learning sign language you're appropriating Deaf Culture. You're clearly not deaf, so just stop."

No, seriously.

Sweet Jesus on Toast points, there's some serious SERIOUS stupid being peddled on tumblr as Sacred Truth(tm)

Reaction to the statement issued by Comics Alliance on the issue of Chris Sims -- I'm not in the mood to directly link their statement.

I have known Andrew Wheeler for close to 20 years now, and cannot believe that he and Janelle Asselin (whom I have met briefly) put something this amazingly offensive and STUPID in their statement on the issue of ( Read more... )

So, I decided to read a Bagginshield story that came from a recs community and had a lot of kudos and comments.

I'm ignoring a few things like "safe the life of his people" because maybe the writer is a non-native speaker.

And then I get to the part where the Dwarves leave Moria and head EAST to the Blue Mountains, because things are better and ( Read more... )

So, one of the things I do once every few months is check up on the case of Jahi McMath

Turns out one of the experts on her family's lawyer's team had his license revoked for improper sexual contact with a patient ( Read more... )

I'm just going to state that, say an author named Laura J. Mixon does a post about how Winterfox behaved in an utterly abominable fashion and says that she wants a the comments to be a safe space for everybody who got mauled by Winterfox to come forward, testify, and be supported ( Read more... )