Huh. Well, this is old news, of course.

But I was looking up "primrose" to see what it signifies (I can't live without you; early youth; young love) and "petunia" apparently means "resentment, anger" but also "your presence soothes me" and "never despairing". Now I have a guilty notion to seek out all the dratted flower names JKR saw fit to fill her books with - what is it with her and flower names, anyway? (Lupin, apparently, means "voraciousness" as well as "admiration", which I'm sure is very interesting no matter whom you pair him with.)

WTF.

St. Lucie teacher has students vote on whether 5-year-old can stay in class - after having them, of course, detail all the things they didn't like about him, to his face. (He's possibly on the spectrum, but honestly, I don't see how that's even relevant except that it manages to make this even MORE appalling.

Do not, of course, read the comments. There's never any good in the comments.

Thanks (I guess) to latenightparty for the link.

And a few quick random links as well

One on recent events about bibles and schools and whatnot, illustrating what we already know - a lot of people think freedom of religion only should apply to *their* religion.

And another very old article about culture in whales

Then there's one about "organic pesticides" and alternatives thereof

And, finally, an editorial (I'm not c+ping) about how we really need more water fountains in NYC. (And public bathrooms!)