Here come the mosquitos with frikking lasers strapped to their heads!

Or,
Can we adapt this to identify hot female humans? (and not zap them)

Or,
ahhh,, nevvamind

Well, yeah, if you define "this time of year" as 1 January through 31 December.

Snark-snipe all you want, but think how much easier things might have been if we did in fact annex Iraq. Big local buffer for Israel (which seems to be ultrahigh priority in DC), all the middle-Eastern military bases we want, a major OPEC player becomes part of the USA,... . And all we'd have to worry about is some minor (hah) backlash from a few other countries in the region. Heck, Putin might never have noticed Crimea if he were concentrating on the new US state of Texiraqas.

Merci.

Hey, I read that book once. WTH is the title?

So what you're saying is, we should invade Mexico? :-)

Compare the cost per student of running an AP class vs. implementing an IEP (individualized education plan), planting a one-on-one aide, and followup evaluations for each and every learning-disabled child. There's absolutely no doubt about which costs more.

Do they (SAT) discriminate between "prepped" and "unprepped" testees? I'm skeptical because that would require extensive self-reporting.

Not claiming it's available on all (or older devices), but at the very least my Asus MemoPad lets you set up separate accounts with controllable access to apps. And of course separate passwords so Junior never even has a chance to use your account or your credit card.

If you don't want it broken, get another one for you kids -- applies to just about everything.

First, the current SAT rules are that each student can select which test scores to submit to colleges. Many kids take SAT prep courses and then take the SAT multiple times, submitting only the best result.

Second, colleges seem to be reluctant to publish any sort of data on the correlation (or lack thereof) between SAT scores and college GPA or dropout rates. So how do we even know whether the SAT is a useful assessment tool?

Disclaimer: I'm a college-application anarchist who thinks all admissions departments should be taken out and shot, and applicants selected using the time-honored Staircase Method.

One to hug and the other to smoke?

Actually, I kind of like that spelling. Sounds like a command to intercept and apply sinusoidal pressure to a false prophet.

  (Khalid Sheik if you care).

Hey, do the Starks know about this?

(gimme a break here: the new season is just about to start)

No, I think that would mean strange gadgets covered with, or made out of, potatoes.

No, because "chocolate" is a color, not greyscale (you insensitive clod).