True, but Stubenville is effectively a suburb of Pittsburgh. (I think the rape thing stopped those idiotic "burb of the burgh" commercials they used to run all of the time on local tv.)

Either way, the entire region (w PA, WV, e OH) puts high school sports, especially football, on some sort of altar that the local government and police assholes worship.

Simple, they redefine bullying as meaning "anything that embarrasses the administration". Everything else is "kids will be kids".

Does that count when one of the parties is committing a crime?

And the kid that is charged was being terrorized.

Yep, this teaches kids. "Don't trust authorities, take matters into your own hands."

I think we know where that can escalate to.

Guns are much more reliable when you are looking to kill someone. And "safer"? Most people involved with a mass murder are not looking to escape it alive. They just decided they are going to take someone with them.

I was reading my mother's Stephen King collection when I was a kid. She had probably forgotten that Rage was in The Bachman Books. It was written years before I was born and even then my high-school years were before the Columbine / regular school shooting era.

Even King says he is "glad it is out of print", something I just learned today. Odd, as I did not see the anti-hero as particularly inspiring. If I had been slightly more unstable, perhaps I would have thought so. It is amusing that today a kid that reads that book might be considered a deviant and locked up.

Kids that are bullied always think of this scenario, reading about it might actually help rather than hurt. Now, writers will not touch this topic with a ten foot pole, leaving teenagers with less support. Talking is not going to help; try getting teens to talk about any important matters, let alone suicidal ones. Yeah, I am not surprised that it comes to a breaking point of school shootings.

After all these years people will not admit that these thoughts happen and that kids help. Instead we have "blame the victim of bullying", "toughen up", and "kids will be kids." If Stephen Fucking King is afraid to talk about this subject, it is truly hopeless.

I have seen far worse. Full on applications written in Excel VBA by those SME's, MBA's and Finance (degrees? I am not sure). And those people that somehow thought that:
A) they weren't shit and
B) they were now programmers and the job was so easy, why do we pay you assholes...

You can figure I did not stick around that job for long.

Seen this many many times before. Cheap companies that have lots of developers and are too cheap to hire experienced admins... or an IT shop that thinks they can have the IT guys program instead of hiring proper developers. "hey, you work with computers, you guys can all do the same stuff, right?" Wrong.

While I have known developers that can sysadmin, and admins that can program... they are the exception not the rule. Quality suffers when you force people into jobs they are not qualified for. Companies know this, and they simply don't care as long as the managers think they are saving money.

You do understand hyperbole, right? I am just sick of your bullshit arguments. You people go around and around in circles and actively deny reason and logic.

Because I am stick of hearing the "how can something come from nothing" argument from creationists. Whether or not something could come from nothing has nothing to do if there is a god or not and proving it can does not prove there is a god. Any rational person can see this, but I would never accuse a creationist of being rational.

Well that could not be any more wrong. Dysentery is one of the leading cause of deaths in countries with little to no sanitation system. Fortunately when someone in a western country contracts one of these diseases, they can go to a hospital, get some fluids and antibiotics

I suspect you are not an anti-vaxer or a naturalist, just misinformed. This is the same completely made up argument that they use. Vaccines do not cause diseases, and eating dirt does not make you healthy.

PhD Microbiology? Try a PhD in Epidemiology or Pathology for actual knowledge on how diseases affect humans. Probably a good thing she is your ex now, as she is also one of those PhD that assumes they are an expert in everything, including things only tangentially related to their field.

... I will punch you in the face.

Creationism does not necessarily have anything to do with geocentrism except that:

1. Both are wrong, and stupidly so.
2. Religious nutjobs tend to be the ones that believe in them.
3. Neither have any evidence, despite claims otherwise.

Your posts hits all three quite nicely.

Oh it goes much deeper. People tended to forget that before his acting career Stein was a speech writer for Nixon and is as right wing religious and political fundamentalist as they come. He has "moderated" atheist/religious debates that clearly showed his bias as he tries to rig the debates.