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Kai Ryssdal might beg to differ.

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Next band name, calling it now..

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One of my mom's former co-workers (a fourth-grade teacher) actually worked overnight stocking shelves at a sporting goods store. And she also ran the after-school childcare program.

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No, it was an actual Southern Baptist head, someone like this guy. It may have been a very small thing but anything those guys do that isn't 100% awful is unusual. I used to attend a liberal Baptist church that got kicked out of the Southern Baptists for ordaining women years ago, long before I ever darkened their door.

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In undergrad in New Orleans, we regularly would pile 8 of us into a taxi. Then one Mardi Gras, my boyfriend's high school buddy drove down in his grandmother's Cadillac Fleetwood. We got 12 people and four gallons of frozen from the drive thru daiquiri place in that thing. Definitely no place to park it, though.

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It's the sitcom version of the quarterly NYT trip to Cousin Fuck, W. Va.

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Y'all cut taxes so much you ain't got no money left, so it checks out.

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Same. We have a long list of school supplies to buy (including paper towels, Clorox wipes, and hand sanitizer) that get pooled in each classroom, and then a $100 school fee on top. $110 if we don't want to buy the extra reams of paper ourselves. In Chicago Public Schools.

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Here is teh story: https://www.npr.org/section...

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So.. Yeah I find that fucking outrageous.

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That's the sort of innovation that made America great.

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'I believe in God the Father, maker of Heaven and earth. Or not. It depends on where I am.'

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Back in the early 80s a process began, of gradually shrinking the size of parking spots. One time I worked on redesigning a factory, front to back, and part of the job was tweaking the lot to take more, smaller cars.This, BTW, is why I hate having to drive the housemate's vintage F100 anywhere.

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You don't need to park a Fleetwood. You just stop it somewhere and declare it an independent township.

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The housemate turned that on last night despite my warnings. She watched about ten minutes of it, then turned on something else.

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