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Why? Are you racist? No, not everyone, just DC Tom. He loves me and can't come to grips with it.

Oh hey, look who's stalking me. Okay, I'll go on just ONE date with you... But nothing below the waist!

They have razor blades in them, though.

Clearly you were raised well. I get to learn from my mistakes.

Weirdly I think you're given rep points just for posting in PPP. I spent a day or 2 posting in that swamp before realizing it was a place for trolling primarily rather than thoughtful dialogue. Anyway, I posted in that day or 2 and in less than 48 hours had 60+ more rep points and it certainly wasn't because of how welcoming it is over there with people handing out likes. Buffalo_gal was one of the good ones, though, so I'm sure she earned 'em. But if you want free likes and don't care about earning them, mosy into PPP... then again, you probably earn them just being able to tolerate it over there, and maybe that's the point. Regardless... yes, thanks TBD for the 2 years!!!

Not that this is necessarily meaningful since Murray might replace a guy Jeremiah had graded out better than both him and Mayfield... https://www.buffalobills.com/news/bills-today-how-does-kyler-murray-compare-to-josh-allen “In terms of grades, now this is the grade I had on them coming out, not what they've done. I have Darnold with the highest grade,” Jeremiah said. “Then it was Rosen, then it was Mayfield, and then I gave the same grade to Josh Allen as my fourth quarterback last year as I gave to Kyler Murray this year. So they would be tied for my fourth, and then I would have Haskins would be behind them and then Lamar Jackson would be behind him. So that would be the order I have stacking those guys in with last year's class based purely off the grade.”

This show is getting awful. I finally started the new (half?) season... what a stupid predictably cliched martyrdom burial of Jesus compounded by a bunch of other stupid crap. This show has gone a season too long, at least. Unfortunately, I'm still watching.

More than a day passed between these 2 posts. Just one example. When more than a day passes, you're bumping it. You're like the primary poster in this thread. Let it die. You can take some ashes from your fireplace and spread them somewhere in honor of your departed arch enemy, but let it die.

You're just bumpin this thread as much as possible to keep this thing alive at this point. Other than hoping he's alive and well, who cares where he is? Sheesh, I stay away from Social Media to stay away from the trolling... but go anywhere on the Internet and it runs rampant.

I hear only good things about that show.

Because they're mostly swamps and I don't have the time to filter out all the crap that's there for the good stuff. I don't have a smartphone, either. I go on Twitter on occasion for some sports stuff, rarely news. I think Snapchat is a terrible creation. I keep in touch with who I care about enough. I don't need Facebook to show me some rosy, often fake picture of a person's overall life I wouldn't even have kept in touch with if not for that. And Instagram just reminds me of this: My annual anonymous evaluations from my students tell me I connect well enough with their generation and that, in fact, they appreciate our exhaustive critique of those platforms. Plus, I am just too busy. My AP Lit students alone write 2 essays per week that I have to read. And I prefer surf over social media nonsense.

Man, sounds like I gotta watch Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire and Peaky Blinders. Aren't the last 2 similar to Sopranos in tone?

If a student has too typos in an otherwise thoughtful and well-written paper, they're meaningless. You've read enough of my stuff over on the Wall to understand those too typos were the exception, not the norm.

Has anyone watched The Passage? I realize it's a network TV show, but I'm 4 episodes in and really diggin it so far.

The 2 "to"s were typos. I was messing with you the times I said "your a idiot" and I thought you understood. Yes. Tenured. Teaching for 15 years and AP Lit for the last 6. My students always score well above state and national averages on the AP Literature exam, which is a sophomore level exam in college. Appreciate the concern about my job security, though.

If the Cardinals are already shopping Rosen, no way in HELL do they get a 1 for him!

I don't have Facebook. Or Instagram. Or Twitter. And thank god for that. Just as I feared, this is apparently a place for mental circle-jerks rather than genuine discussion.

No. Ya know, I really do think Yeah, because according to you a teacher should be fired for saying "calm down" to a kid in class who's acting up iif he's black, but it's fine to say it if he's not. Because, according to you, a teacher should be fired for asking a black student "where are you from?" if you get a brand new student in class in the middle of the year (which I often do because there's a large military population that comes and goes), but it's fine asking that question if he/she's not black. Because, according to you, when students are delivering their formal oral presentations at the end of each semester and we are evaluating the student, if it's a black student I should not say "you articulated well," but I can say that to students if they aren't black. ... but then... holding those terms back from Black students while saying them to all other students would itself be racist, wouldn't it? I bet you have very little face to face interaction with actual people... you just live in a bubble hammering away on the Internet. Well thank you. So I guess we can't assume an Ivy League Graduate is articulate, at all.

Sooooo.... Amy Klobuchar and Mitt Romney are black because I called them well-spoken and articulate, too? All of my students and colleagues that are white, Asian, Pacific Islander, etc. that I label as well-spoken and articulate should identify themselves as Black instead because I used those words for them?

Man... you're predictable. This place isn't a place for genuine discussion. It's mental *****. Talk about being disingenuous. Except that's not what they show.

There were no connotations to the phrasing until DC Tom ascribed them to skin color. I stand tall and sturdy.

Bush graduated Yale and Harvard. Trump never did attend an Ivy League school, but now that he's President, using "well-spoken" and "articulate" as a standard in the conversation for the Presidency is logical.

This one's pretty funny

Except that even these articles themselves don't make these words concretely and universally racist and they're being cited as though they universally and completely categorize those as racist words. https://ideas.ted.com/why-we-need-to-call-out-casual-racism/ Microaggressions and instances of casual racism like this pepper our daily lives, leaving a terrible taste in our collective mouths. If you want to correct their “articulate” comments, you will often be met with, “Oh, I didn’t mean it like that!” Ma’am. Sir. How did you mean it? Have you ever given a white colleague a pat on the back for knowing how to speak in complete sentences? No? Okay. A literal pat on the back? Not necessarily. But I say/write it in evaluative forms to students and colleagues alike frequently. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/weekinreview/04clemetson.html What faint praise, indeed. Being articulate must surely be a baseline requirement for a former president of The Harvard Law Review. After all, Webster’s definitions of the word include “able to speak” and “expressing oneself easily and clearly.” It would be more incredible, more of a phenomenon, to borrow two more of the senator’s puzzling words, if Mr. Obama were inarticulate. That is the core of the issue. When whites use the word in reference to blacks, it often carries a subtext of amazement, even bewilderment. So, in reverse order, the core issue is that when whites use the word, it OFTEN carries a subtext of amazement and/or bewilderment. So, the word is OFTEN racist. Again, I use those words all the time for all my students and colleagues. Plus, considering this article was written 12 years ago and we currently have an inarticulate dumbass in office, I think talking about Presidential candidates as needing to be "articulate" or "well-spoken" is just fine considering that bar has been massively lowered in the last couple years. Considering Donald Trump and George W Bush went to Ivy League schools, I strongly disagree.