Strict math teacher’s secret identity… as a baby cuddler
With his short gray hair, watchful eyes, authoritative voice and stern manner, high school math teacher and Vietnam veteran Jim O’Connor is used to commanding respect in the classroom. So his students were surprised to learn about his nickname at the hospital where he volunteers: the baby whisperer.
Read more: http://nbcnews.to/1hvv6Ik
Photo courtesy Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
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Trolling is a art.
One student said the online system beats the classroom because “you can digest in the information at your own paste.”
http://nypost.com/2014/02/23/students-defend-murry-bergtraum-hs-in-error-filled-letters/
Oh my god this is amazing. Incredible. Bra-vo.
tl;dr don’t click on this link, it’s a waste of your time and only encourages the worst nonsense on the internet.
I’m generally more-or-less OK with what I see on The Verge, but I feel like a sucker for having clicked on this link. I’m dumber for having done so, accounting for the fact that… yes now I heard them say the thing they wrote in the headline out loud but now I’ve got all their uninspired parody crap rattling around as well.
I really enjoyed watching Jimmy Fallon and his debut on The Tonight Show. I’ve always been a sucker for staying up too late so you can consider me biased, but the care and craft that he and his crew put into it was honestly just joyful, and I appreciated that.
The homophobic parent that refused to let their daughter go to the tie dye party is a lie [1].
Some of my best friends are trolls, and I honestly appreciate that they love the effort and cleverness that goes into an epic trolling. I appreciate their love of it.
http://www.bilerico.com/2014/02/homophobic_note_on_birthday_invite_a_hoax_radio_ho.php
[1] I’ve learned that G+ punishes posts that don’t have sensational first lines. This was not my preferred formulation for this post.
Whoever just interviewed Bode Miller just hurt him on purpose. The fact that she put her hand on his shoulder after he broke down doesn’t change the fact that they obviously knew each other, he trusted her, and she hurt him. On purpose.
I continue to be conflicted by the Olympics.
A Pun Involving Travel 