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Too Much Discussion Makes Me Think, and We Can’t Have That!

February 6, 2011 – 12:10 am

This post is dedicated to Bitchie Lou, a student from a few years ago whose babyish behavior, constant whining,  and terrible manners have earned her the title of “Worst Student I’ve Ever Had, So Far.” This is not a title I want to ever have to bestow again, so don’t get any ideas, students dear. [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Imagination

January 22, 2011 – 1:42 am

A lot of Saturdays have come and gone lately without Quotation Saturday.  How have we managed to cope, I ask you all. . . . Since I stand firmly with Albert Einstein’s “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” this Saturday’s theme is “imagination.” Take the word apart.  Do you see it?  IMAGE.  People with imagination [...]

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Be Nice Anyway. You’re Not The Center of the Universe

December 9, 2010 – 1:02 am

Mamacita says: Let’s talk about simple, basic, seasonal etiquette.  Where is it? I will never understand why some people feel they have to be so defensive and hostile all the time. These people whine “insensitivity” but the truth is, THEY are the ones who are insensitive. This time of year, in particular, one reads article [...]

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Things Nice People Already Know: Go To The Back of the Line!

December 2, 2010 – 10:43 pm

Mamacita says:  The Post Office is really busy at this time of the year. People are standing in long lines, waiting to buy stamps and mail packages.  Everybody knows how busy the Post Office is at this time of the year. That being said, WHAT IS UP WITH ALL THE OLD WOMEN * IN THERE [...]

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Popcorn Thief!

November 21, 2010 – 7:54 pm

Mamacita says:  If one person offers to make popcorn for another person, and that other person declines the offer, and the first person says “Are you sure? I’m making popcorn and I’d be glad to make some for you, too,” and the second person insists he doesn’t want any, and the first person gives up [...]

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Insensitive People Baffle Me

October 18, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: People who indulge themselves at the expense of other people are not nice people; they’re selfish and inconsiderate.  I do not understand how their minds work.  These people baffle me with their insensitive glossing over other people’s lives. When my kids were tiny, and I was RIFFED from teaching for a year here, [...]

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Only the Stupid Fear Questions

October 10, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: Warning: I’m in a bad mood. I’m sick and tired of a handful of people taking all the joy out of the majority of our children’s school experience. I maintain that if a family is that insecure and unable to defend their own beliefs against a good honest question, or withstand any questions [...]

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Quip Pro Quo: A Fast Retort

September 26, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: First of all, I despise censorship. Banning books is akin to banning people; both are abhorrent to the collective intelligence, and both bring us down as a culture. It’s one thing for someone to decide that a certain book will not be allowed in his/her house – every parent has that right – [...]

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Facades Are Fake.

August 17, 2010 – 9:46 pm

Mamacita says:  All this talk about how it’s the teacher’s fault whenever a student does badly at school. . . . I can’t help but think that these people must blame the photographer if their kid is homely.  Isn’t it – sometimes – the same thing? Photoshop faces or abilities or personalities all you want: [...]

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Hands Off My Pencils or You’ll Be Sorry

August 2, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: School will be starting soon – or maybe it already has – for most kids, and each year at about this time I like to re-run this post about an issue that really, really makes me want to kill somebody and put his/her head on a post in the WalMart parking lot bothers [...]

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