If it’s an intruder, can you shoot on sight?

So are we a host when we have a penis inside us? Does that penis belong to us while we are hosting it? Can we do with it whatever we want? Just asking.

I bet Trump has been doing this handshake his entire adult life. It was probably a life lesson from his father Fred Trump or his other father Roy Cohn about “winning the handshake,” or having a powerful “first move.” He probably grips as hard as he can then he yanks the other party toward himself so that other…

Also trampolines.

To be clear, I’m not blaming her family. I can’t imagine how upset they must be, but I’ve known too many people who’ve been seriously injured on those things. They’re just not worth whatever fun you might have on them.

Do not allow your children to drive ATVs! They are so dangerous that actually no one should be driving them.

She’s REALLY good at what I consider to be one of the critical components of scifi, which is “hey look at all these scary possibilities if we take our current technological and cultural trends too far”. The whole concept of the MaddAddam is basically ‘megacorporations could be really fucking awful’. It’s like if the…

Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy was so good (though the final book was easily the least impressive of the three). Her work is so scary and fascinating.

I kind of agree with you. I am not sure this will do anything other than make them resentful about having to read and write about something they clearly don’t give a flying flip about. Empathy is not a skill that can be taught through assigning book reports. Likewise, restorative justice is way more complicated than a…

Yeah, I suspect most Americans know there was at least one world war we were involved with and probably not more than three. Beyond that I suspect things are shaky.

I turned out all right and I actually did. Granted, I was seven and had no idea what it meant; I just thought it looked cool. Kids do dumb stuff, man.

If I were to speculate, I would assume it was just a prank.

For me, I learned a lot of empathy from books. I put myself in other people’s shoes. That they have to do a book report on the books is a good sign because it means they’ll be thinking about what they read.

The parents of one of the vandals immediately took their kid to the Holocaust museum, so sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree.

The fact that they decided to draw swastikas on a building implies that they are aligned to hate groups in theory if not in practice.

In my county, back in the dark days of the late ‘90's, there was a thing called “Teen Court.” Underage jabrones who got caught doing dumb, non-violent stuff could choose regular family court or Teen Court, which was run entirely by teenagers (but supervised by a judge).

I’d be ok with them getting jail time. I really don’t think reading a book will teach them a thing.

I’d really like if more of the juvenile justice system were things like this. Throwing kids into detention centers rarely makes them into better citizens (surprise surprise); I’d much rather see a focus on service and education that helps tie kids into the community.

Right? Like it’s still a swastika... You were drawing a smiley face or writing some quote from a book you just read.

Such a weird and random thought! Funny how the mind works sometimes.