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You're comparing your son, who attended private schools and started taking German in Kindergarten with kids in a public school who start taking a modern language ( we don't call them foreign languages...

Catholic schools are private and therefore can kick out any kids that do no toe the line. Public schools are required to take everyone (unless of course they are fancy-schmancy selective enrollment s...

Was she on the store's property? Were they? Even then it would depend on whether the store knew the people to be dangerous I would think (I'm not a lawyer.) To me it looks like the Jewel has deep poc...

Well d'uh. I meant why does her lawyer think she has a case?...

Yes it was a robbery, but why is she suing Jewel? I don't think anyone thinks the guy should go free, but I also don't think Jewel is culpable in this case. ...

Is he going bald?...

ëvil incärnätë is a much scarier metal name....

How is it sarcastic exactly? It seems to be pretty matter-of-fact. It actually seems designed specifically to be non-divisive, which is different than most Christian billboards that I see. It doesn...

I fly internationally in and out of Chicago a couple times a year, and every time I do, it is an unmitigated disaster. In August, it took me over two hours just to get through the bottleneck of secur...

Toss in a little Ovaltine powder and this is my standard breakfast at least twice a week. I do it with the hand blender right in my travel cup....

@ Scooter Libby The city does do a shitty job of plowing the streets, but they do a better job than anywhere else around. Drive up Western to Evanston and see how bad the streets get as soon as you c...

I agree with Spook. (and how often do people say that?!) This reminds me of that whole fuss about kids in coffee shops in Adersonville a few years ago. Yes breastfeeding is a beautiful thing. Yes, ...

"A" is indeed a letter, but it is also a word. It is an indefinite article Indefinite article (determiner). Used only to modify a singular countable noun head (or in some cases, a plural phrase tr...

When I taught in the CPS, we were told by our principal that we could have a failure rate of no more than 15%. I had classes where at least 50% of the students had either failing grades, or attendanc...

I actually just read Downtown Owl last week, and was pleasantly surprised. I think you either have to have grown up, or at least had family in the rural Upper Midwest to really appreciate his books, ...