"I hated reading fiction. It was all the same. Kittens played organized sports outside the window and surly PHA’s turned out to be Jesus keeping an eye on you in his shy sort of way. Only sick people enjoyed literature, I thought."
By the time Paul had opened both taped-glass doors, the foyer bats had already flown to the second floor, then the third, because Helen was singing her ugly Christmas Carols.
There are two Advanced Language Arts classes for sixth grade. One is taught by Mrs. Santoloho. She rides her bike around town even in the winter and says, “notice how I always wear a helmet?”
Judges aren’t good at foreseeing systemic consequences because they probably have paranoid worldviews. They’re the risk-averse wing of the risk-averse legal profession.
While those afflicted often insist that they are victims of circumstance—employers such as Mr. Obama impose a buttoned-down ethos—evidence suggests that it goes deeper.
Ankle boots are, in fact, the shoe of the year. (They’re also known as “booties,” but because that word sounds like two different slang terms plus one type of children’s footwear, we’re not going to use it.)
Is melodrama useful to learning about texts? Does learning the texts even matter, or is clever analysis really the point? If not, why the fetishistic care in selecting the books?
Brandenburg encapsulated the argument against elected judges when he complained that they were "vulnerable to whatever the political wind is." As a justice, O'Connor herself was often accused of blowing in the political wind.
So far she has melded the beer can to the cuff; next she will attach strands of diamonds. “I like the idea of recycling and making it into something cool. Like, ‘I rescued this beer can and turned it into a $5,000 piece of jewelry!’ No, I’m just kidding. ‘I turned it into something beautiful.’”
Braces, once a luxury, aren't for the beautiful people anymore. They're mostly for middle class kids whose parents don't want them mistaken for poor or foreign.