The findings suggest that there can often be adverse health effects of those arrangements, which is what was surprising and merits additional research.

Boy howdy, the Eagles offense is terrible. It has surpassed your run-of-the-mill poor performance to achieve an almost artistic level of ineptitude.

They’ll cut their own throats if they can kick someone else while they do it.

Anyway, the cousins I talked to were universally ashamed, though varied in how they talked about that. (Language barriers may have played a role there.)

TL;DR: institutionalizing efforts to instill racial superiority messages in kids scares the shit out of me and could haunt generations.

Obviously many adults did too! But it wasn’t always that straightforward; sometimes generations disagreed in a household. How many kids think teachers may know more than parents? Or vice versa?

What started out as an extreme viewpoint that a relatively small (but vocal) group of people espoused became institutionalized over the course of a couple years. Kids adapt quickly. So, after a few years of it being what was approved in primary/middle school, kids went along with it.

We pitched this one year. We invite media to a press conference and then bring out a ladder in a Santa hat and have someone behind a curtain do the ladder voice.

Nor should you! (I'm an en dash man, myself.)

Trying to change the way we write for any reason other than becoming a better writer seems the height of folly.

He had me at “metal fan.”

“That ain’t right. And I’ve had enough of what ain’t right.”

Oh, yes. Me too!!!