“For the rest of the semester, a Rutherford County elementary student has to eat lunch at the “silent table” for allegedly waving around a slice of pizza some say resembled a gun…He’s being punished because “some students reported he was making some threatening hand gestures, that he was shooting other kids at the table and they reported it to a teacher…I realize some might say we are going overboard but the principal is just trying to use an abundance of caution and send the message that we don’t play about guns and it’s not something we joke around about,” he said.

To that, Taylor said her son knows he shouldn’t play with guns.

“We don’t have a gun in the house,” she said. “He plays with light sabers. He’s a big Star Wars fan.”

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But aren’t un-eaten slices vaguely knife-shaped? I mean, he was only making the pizza safer.

And wait… it’s bad to shoot someone, but gutting them is okay? Well, I’m glad that’s cleared up!

Well, that’s a new one..I just spent 7 minutes or so on the phone (hearing a consistent beeping in the background) with a mom, trying to schedule her daughter for Music for little Mozarts, and halfway through the conversation she said “well, frankly, I’m in the middle of a colonoscopy right now and just don’t know what time to tell you that might work”…me: “Are you a doctor?” her “Yes, I’m a doctor, and our schedule is just crazy”…ummmmm….why don’t we talk about this later?

A certain neurologist friend of our will appreciate this.

Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That’s the moment you realize you’re separated from so much. That’s your moment of understanding that you’ll miss most of the music and the dancing and the art and the books and the films that there have ever been and ever will be, and right now, there’s something being performed somewhere in the world that you’re not seeing that you would love.

Just beautiful. Read the whole thing.