Here’s my post on the Rita Crundwell commutation – and as I’ve already provided most of the info already, I’m just going to copy one of the interesting graphs I found:
I didn’t know it was this bad. I don’t know whether to be sad or angry but I wish the kids would try to break up fights rather than record them on their phones.
Eh. I’m guessing it was always this bad, but now there is video proof.
Fun fact: they don’t have to fight at school. Is school now a “safe space” for fighting??
Back in my day, we fought under freeway overpasses. Sometimes we danced during these fights. And before the fights, people were recorded singing a song (actually a mash-up of a few songs) about the fight.
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kids record everything. then share it. it’s distressing.
and the fights are not like ones I recall as a young person. it’s like the fighter knows they are recording and want the future clicks. bc they do NOT back off when the other kid is down and turtled up in fetal position. they just keep hammering. (based on the few school fights i have been informed of over the last n years by school personnel)
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Not sure. The only time I was attacked by a gang as a teenager was by a group of thugs who invaded our class’ year-end party at a friend’s cottage. There were no major fights on school property itself but we had some tough teachers who policed the school.
Also guessing that these days teachers and admin are not allowed to touch students, lest they get sued. Ah, the olden days… paddles, belts, thumbscrews, …
Yup, the stories I could tell about teachers in the 50s and 60s. Glad that has changed in most places.
Bit of family history. My great grandfather (little Italian man) was a HS teacher and barber in Pittsburg in the 1920’s. One of his bigger students decided he didn’t like him and was going to teach this little man a lesson. Tried to ambush him in an alley.
Unfortunately for the student my GGF had his razor sharpening strop with him. He beat this “kid” who had 70lbs on him senseless. The student got suspended for his actions.
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Great story: I have nothing to compete with it! Thanks for sharing.
Teachers in my day only used their straps on student’s hands. I still remember the resulting pain though.
I would say “where are the parents anymore?” but in some cases, they’re at school helping their kid fight other kids. 
NJ Drones probably need their own thread:
The bold parts are, of course, par for the course:
“The government knows what is happening,” Trump said. “For some reason, they don’t want to comment. And I think they’d be better off saying what it is our military knows and our president knows.”
Trump, speaking at a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, said, “I can’t imagine it’s the enemy,” without going into specifics. He declined to answer whether he had received an intelligence briefing on the matter.
We had some fights in classrooms, in the hallways and on school grounds but usually when it was planned they would schedule the meet after school off the school grounds because the others got you in more trouble and were almost always broken up by teachers.
By the time I got to HS I think there were only 2 teachers who had a paddle/strap. I know the drama teacher had a paddle that you got to sign if you got hit by it. It did take quite the act to get hit by it and it was not something kids tried to get but was a bit of a badge of honor to get to sign it. Hurt like heck, though. I know from experience.
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PMBs were paid hundreds of millions of dollars a year to allow opioid prescriptions to go unabated. It makes me so angry to see people willing to destroy lives and communities in order to make more money.
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I am very pro-vaccination, but one argument that anti-vaxxers have that is hard for me to refute is that PBMs and pretty much everyone in the pharmaceutical industry is just in it for the money and will push whatever makes them money. I’m sure there are some good players in there, but over the years I’ve seen lots of examples like this where it’s clear that they are just in it for the money.
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Capitalism is like that. We need strong regulations or it devolves into a brutal dystopia.
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Caveat emptor.
I sometimes feel like doing this myself when shopping with certain family members….love the dog’s expression.
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Surprised she couldn’t sell the plates for thousands of dollars.
This reminds me of the story of the person who had the NULL license as a joke and the same thing happened. (might have been posted here)
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