I've had my baby girl literally crying on the basketball court. The frustration sets in, she's so desperate to beat me. And when she gets uber-frustrated, I crank it up a notch.


The day she beats me, she will have fvcking earned it.

I love this thread.

I hope that doesn't offend anyone;)

I know what you mean.

My Daughter has two coaches.

Coach #1: Hey good try girls! I really like that effort you made. Keep trying. That team went 0 for 8 last season.

Coach #2: What the hell was that play? Where's your head girl? Get in there and get it done . That team is undefeated for the last two seasons.

And this is why we're considering home schooling, should we ever manage to spawn. I don't understand why it's totally okay for me to have to listen to other people's rap music, view other people's thongs, and endure screeching knee-high hellions careening around every corner, but the sight of a Christmas tree or sound of a carol might cause someone of a different (or no) religion to spontaneously combust.

I hope for the day when religious mysticism and other forms of magical thinking have evolved out of the human race.

But meanwhile, just because I don't have any interest in participating, I don't really care if other people do so. Even on public property, and to a certain extent even with public money.

So long as I'm not forced to participate, to believe, then go have fun. This is a predominately Christian nation and it will behave as one. When some prick decides to get all upset about "under god" in the Pledge of Allegiance the courts don't really have any choice but to say "yeah, it doesn't really belong there." But the prick is still a prick for having complained.

Scott Adams had an interesting observation on his blog a couple weeks ago. He hardly ever gets letters of complaint from people who are offended. He gets letters of complaint from people who are offended on behalf of someone else. Then a few days later he gets letters from the theoretically aggrieved party asking for framed prints of the cartoon in question.

We've worked our way to a strange place in our society where the noblest thing you can do is feel on behalf of other people and the next logical step is acting on those feelings (and acting purely on feelings never leads anywhere good). But we haven't yet reached a place where we are very good at feeling correctly what others will feel.

Every time somebody starts talking by saying "I'm not offended, but..." they should be kicked in the hard before the next word can get out.

Start with "I'm offended..." and you get to finish your sentence. Then everybody gets to call you an oversensitive hyperemotional sissy.

People need to learn, the definition of building self esteem is not, "You're so great that you can never lose!" All that does is set them up to feel worthless when they inevitably do lose at something.

Better watch yourself mister. Talk like that will get you shunned by the pre-school parent crowd.

Is that a promise?

I had no idea that "ching chong" in reference to Chinese talking is as bad as saying the n-word (I would have typed out that word but since I'm sending this from work I don't need it setting off any triggers).

I'll have to tell my Chinese co-worker who said it this morning. (Making fun of an argument her mom had with a storeclerk.)

I didn't know that many Chinese Americans are employed as news readers in China.