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Apr 10 Calpete commented on Some People Thinking You're An Asshole Is EXACTLY THE SAME As Being Herded Into Camps and Murdered With Your Families.

Santorum didn't cancel because the school didn't want to hear his bigoted views -- he was cancelled because the school requested, as a matter of standard policy with respect to outside speakers, a copy of his planned remarks before the event and he (or his "people") refused to provide it. The fact that he's an ignorant, loudmouthed, bigoted POS had nothing to do with it.

Apr 10 Calpete commented on Co-Workers Clipping Fingernails: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?.

@17 - No plucking of eyebrows, either. Personal grooming has a place, and that place is in one's private personal space, not the office, not the bus, not the mall, not the coffee shop, not the park.

Apr 9 Calpete commented on State Sues Florist Who Refused Service to a Gay Wedding.

If that "lawyer" got his JD from Regent, he probably doesn't know there's a difference between "conscious" and "conscience". Having a parchment on the wall is no guarantee of an actual education.

Apr 2 Calpete commented on Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as His Chauffeur.

Michael Douglas as Liberace? C'mon, man. That shit should have gone straight to DVD.

Apr 2 Calpete commented on The Contradiction of the Suburb.

Gaah! Don't talk to me about inner-city vs. suburbia until I finish wrecking the havoc in my neighborhood -- sorry, my barrio.

Mar 17 Calpete commented on SL Letter of the Day: Skip the Scum.

@12, @14 -- Obviously, I'm more than a little slow today.

Mar 17 Calpete commented on SL Letter of the Day: Skip the Scum.

@8 -- I may be a little slow today, but I've read #5/#6 four times now and I can't find the misspelling you think is so evident. It would be a kindness for you to point it out to the rest of us. Thank you.

Mar 11 Calpete commented on Paul Ryan Will Work as Hard as He Can to Repeal Obamacare.

His entire career is nothing but Atlas Shrugged fanfic, not just his budget. I'm always surprised when I see a photo of him standing up, since he seems to spend the majority of his time bowing down at the altar (or knees) of Ayn Rand.

Mar 2 Calpete commented on Seattle High School Teacher's Race and Social Justice Curriculum Suspended After Parent Complaint.

@9 -- I'm puzzled as to why you think we're all assuming it's a white person objecting. I make no such assumption and I hope I didn't express myself in a way that leads to that interpretation. My observation tends toward the "deeply held religious beliefs" side of the question. As others have said, a lot of this kind of objection comes from people who want the school district to give their kids the same limited education they'd give them if they were home-schooling, not necessarily complete or well rounded and too often not challenging or rigorous on any level. But that's not to say that I assume all home-schoolers are white, just that the justification for home schooling is often so thin you could wrap leftovers in it without having to label them.

Mar 2 Calpete commented on Seattle High School Teacher's Race and Social Justice Curriculum Suspended After Parent Complaint.

"Intimidating educational environment" so often translates as "they're teaching my kid stuff I don't want him to know". And if it actually comes from the student it's so often the kind of complaint that results from deeply held religious beliefs not supported by history or science. Parents shouldn't have to "opt-in"; parents should have the option to "opt-out". They should not be entitled to re-write a district's or a school's curriculum.