I think teenagers booing an absent dean or principal is not only normal but pretty healthy. I'd rather have people suspicious of authority. And anybody in authority should understand that's a part of the gig. It's not personal. It's the role. As Trudy notes, even a well-liked principal or Dean is going to get razzed.

Todd, feel free to grace us with pictures of your pretty self.

Tep, I think you should get an actual vertabrae and build a little shadowbox for it. Like we did for Emmett's nose cast.

Sean, buck up li'l buckaroo.

MM, move back to California before your soul shrivels up like Cheney's anus.

Because I am defending the use of comic books in the classroom as a legitimate and useful tool in promoting literacy and language arts.

This is awesome, Aims! It used to drive me crazy when I worked at the bookstore when parents would only let kids read "real books" instead of what interested them. It never seemed like a good way of encouraging children to enjoy reading.

trying out shiny new name

It is very shiny!

I don't remember who came up with it, but I know it was a Bitch!

It was me! Praising one of your anime haircuts. (I'm pretty sure.)

Sean, many hugs to you.

Love the new name, Glam!

I love to boooooo umpires and refs. I have never boooed a member of any team of which I am a fan. I HAVE booed pro players who have been thrown in jail for beating up their wives/girlfriends (Brett Myers, Lawrence Phillips, Wil Cordero, etc). Actually, I banned the 49ers from my brain the entire time they had Phillips on staff.

Glamcookie, what was your previous name? Did it perhaps also involve cookies, cookies of a more morose nature?

Glamcookie, what was your previous name? Did it perhaps also involve cookies, cookies of a more morose nature?

Yes, can you please put your old board name in your tag, so we know who you are, GC? I don't want to become confused and forget, you crazy name-changer.

Well see some name changes don't need taggage. Like Aims. I actually didn't realize at first she *had* changed it, my brain just translated on its own.

I've been Laga since my first day on the internet. Anybody remember initgame?

Huh, I thought it'd be totally obvious. Adjusted tag.

GC I was just asking for clarification. I didn't want to assume.