Yeah. Betting that lawyer would find at least one football player who skated for the same thing.

Boxturtle (Our punishment for that was to clean up the cafe, including waxing the floor)

Tell her to get a lawyer and request discovery of the last 5 years of student discipline records. Tell ‘em it’s to look for disparate punishment.

Boxturtle (See how fast they back off)

I have husky’s. They provide an impenetrable shield against thrown edibles. The *SNARF* sound you heard was the sitcky bun vanishing.

Boxturtle (The disadvantage is if I return fire, they’ll eat that too)

I’m sure it’s not true in all cases. But I know that to get school levies passed around here you have to threaten to cut either after school or transportation. We failed a levy that would have resulted in class sizes approaching 50, but passed the same levy next time around when they threatened transportation. [...]

I work right near the OSU football practice facility. It is larger than my entire high school, has an enclosed playing area, an outdoor playing area and a gym. At least. I don’t think OSU football plays 20 games in a year.

Boxturtle (But high school sports are a free babysitting service for parents)

I expect that here as well. I think once school lets out for the summer, there’s going to be a bad news drop that the school board hopes will blow over before classes start in the fall.

Boxturtle (Would support a state income tax increase to enable public schools to fund healthcare)

No stockholders? :-)

Boxturtle (Once a company issues stock, it seems like their concern for their staff really drops)

When we moved the last time, part of my location process was to drive the potential neighborhood and examine property maintenance. I wanted to be around people who cared about their homes. Worked out pretty well, this neighborhood is a real melting pot.

Boxturtle (if you’re not cynical, you’re not paying attention)

I’m sure you’ll find him a regular churchgoer.

If we can’t get churches to stand up for the Bible even when it disagrees with their parishioners prejudices, what’s the point of churches?

Boxturtle (Why is Love Thy Neighbor such a source of confusion? Pretty straightforward, seems to me)

I tended more toward toward Chemistry geek. The radio parts were just too darned expensive, though I’d look longingly at the Heathkit catalog. I recently sold a bunch old old radio tubes at hamvention. I was AMAZED at the prices people were willing to pay for tubes older than I am. I figured on getting [...]

I’ll be watching MyFDL Sunday at least. I have hopes to do things away from the toobz Saturday.

Boxturtle (I’ve done some homework on the issue)

I once tried to build one of his devices as a kid, just because my father said it could never work. It would have worked, except I could not consistently get the pool cue to shoot straight when the bowling ball hit it. Boxturtle (Even at 10, I was a geek. But so were my [...]

EXCELLENT links, thank you. I shall use them to pummel my conservative neighbor.

Boxturtle (He’s been gloating at me about the 30 hour loophole)

The church that held my old Boy Scout troop kicked them out an hour after the decision was made.

They claim to be “sorrowful” about it.

Boxturtle (I’m sure they claim that “Love one another” was misinterpreted)

Did you notice the emergency brake was a piece of rebar?

Boxturtle (Geeks honor Rube Goldberg. Not sure who the corresponding Saint for rednecks would be)

There are several stages:

Stage 1: Talking to yourself.
Stage 2: Answering yourself.
Stage 3: Arguing with yourself.
Stage 4: Losing the arguments.

I’m late stage 3.

Boxturtle (Oh, you are not! Stage two, at most!)

Yes, zip ties also qualify. My error. The real difference between geeks and rednecks is rednecks use a welding torch, geeks use a soldering iron.

Boxturtle (And rednecks have shotguns while geeks have BFG9000′s)

Yup. I wonder how much of Walmarts corporate portfolio is in health care stocks.

Boxturtle (And I wonder about the crossover between boardrooms)

No, just geeky. Every geek solution should involve superglue, duct tape, or a reused power cable.

Boxturtle (Not that much difference between geeks and rednecks)