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"Consistency issues can usually be fixed with wizards." Yes, the old "well...a wizard did it" DeusExMagic-User. Sooo useful for the DM, especially if you are the sort who keeps twe…

I mean that a school that started for the express purpose of training Puritan Congregationalist ministers, and had mandatory Protestant chapel until 1926, now has coed dormitories,…

Sorry, we will have only binary & atom-thick appraisals of historic figures in the US today. John Calhoun == Bad; Grace Hopper == Good. And that's all you need to know. The ones do…

...who got his money from his parents and uncles. Moe Brown was also a quaker && robustly antislavery, but that did not stop him from bailing out his brothers during the war. Tryin…

Brown as well. You really can't talk about the slave trade in colonial RI w/o mentioning John & Nick Brown. Of course, the brand names of these colleges are too valuable to dump.

In fairness to JCC, I'm sure he'd look at the sort of things that go on at Yale these days, and insist that all mention of his name be removed from anything on campus. The South, t…

Time was, those were referred to as "pink-collar" jobs; probably b/c there was a preponderance of women doing them.

If nobody's brought it up, "Castle" by David Macaulay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(book) (also made into a PBS program in the '80s) Very nice book; also he has ones about…

As mentioned upthread & here, yes, the early Fieros did have a habit of catching fire. There were primarily two reasons for this: GM refused to budget for a new engine for the car-…

I can respect them for their ability to control a classroom, to empathize with, and to motivate young children. I cannot in any meaningful way respect, the breadth, rigor or qualit…

Citations, of course. Or are you simply of the Nicholas Garaufis school of thought; namely, if the test isn't perfect, it can't possibly be used as a hiring tool? After seeing what…

Pretty Much Exactly That. Of course, you might want to go further, and ask why this hasn't happened. Why wouldn't some state or locality in the US demand that its teacher-training …

A few hours of work...on the first day of use. How many more hours of engrossing touchpad driver jiggerypokery will any person need to do over the course of ownership before the co…

This. This. THIS. Federally-backed student loans, undischargeable and given to all and sundry, to be spent wherever on whatever, is a gigantic short in the moral-hazard circuit. I …

Kevin's side of the story has been told by him, by Littman in 'The Fugitive Game' and by Eric Corley. Any reasonably broad-minded person who wants to see the law deal evenhandedly …