I am so sorry for all you went through. You are a very strong person to have survived all that.

Aw. I’ve been scrolling through the grays hoping I was the first one to pick up this angle.

Oh yeah, my mom tried to argue that the only reason I cut her out of my life was because she lost a lawsuit, and it was because she didn’t get a payout.

My mom threatened to kill herself when I cut her out. I can relate to the difficulty of dealing with people who are mentally unwell who also happen to be your parent. It’s an absolute nightmare.

I agree with all the other commenters that this is a sad and bizarre case but what puzzles me is this; If you were planning a murder why would you do so in Bali of all places? Indonesian authorities aren’t exactly known as being kind to a) foreigners or b) murderers.

Where is the actual source? I’m in east LA (aka west coast ground zero for gentrification), and just went through the home-buying process and frankly can’t figure out how to do anything for myself without becoming part of the problem. Decision 1: buy a duplex because housing prices are out of control and that will…

At no point in the process, start, middle, or end, does smashing up stores become a viable course of action. I don’t care how frusterated these people were, what they did was still childish and wrong.

Hey, revolutionary warrior on the internet, a whole lot of kids and innocents are going to get dead and burned in your smug masturbatory fantasy. But you go ahead and finish, because we know how much it means to you to spaff your asinine, chucklefucking, class-warring effluvia all over the place. Just don’t forget to…

And caused suicide.

You know that’s just an invitation for people to start dumping bad homeschooling stories which makes other people start in on level downside/benefits of institutional schooling who then get ignored or mocked by absolutists from either side that drive the entire discussion into a toxic waste dump of insults and…

Australia isn’t the only country to deny him an entry visa. I say this all the time, but no country has an obligation to let anyone in. I know a number of Americans with long-past non-violent drug offences who haven’t been let into Canada, Brits with long-past non-violent drug offences who haven’t been let into the…

Exactly, Chris Brown should have told them he was pitching a new mining project, he’d have breezed through

No jimmy savile had about a couple hundred victims come foward in the uk.

You know how the Church had that whole issue with Galileo, and it turned out they were totally wrong, so in the present-day, they are on board with evolution and climate change?

LOL letting non-celebrities into the country indiscriminately, you've obviously never encountered Australian immigration law, aka the shame of my nation.

I like your name. Therefore, you are cool.

Wait, you’re not cool. Damn, I never get that right. ;)

“Cool” is relative.

It's not really a time thing. Some people remain grey forever.

Our 19yo daughter is home from college for the weekend. She is studying sustainable agriculture and food production. She brought home fresh goat milk from the college farm, and is teaching us to make Chèvre. Our little kiddo is becoming a strong, smart, feisty woman and it just makes us bust with pride. Tomorrow she…