When I started kindergarten in 1989 my teacher expressed concern over my lack of fine motor skills because I held my pencil “wrong”. My mother was the queen of arts and crafts so I grew up doing things with my hands constantly. I spent hours using up all my grandma’s aluminum foil making little figures of people and…

It was actually kind of awesome? The concert part was amazing.

The other absurdity is that US animal shelters euthanize almost 700,000 dogs a year because they can’t get homes! People are hand wringing over Koreans killing and eating dogs while an equivalent number of dogs are killed here every year. I agree the conditions are bad for these dogs and that’s terrible, but I’m not…

Anthropologist Marvin Harris wrote about this topic if anyone is interested in reading about it

Yeah uh we use pig heart parts in human heart transplants because their bodies are so similar to ours. Why draw the line at dogs? What about horses? Cats? Rodents? Birds? Fish? Those are all animals people keep as pets. As are pigs, sheep, goats, cows, deer etc etc. What makes dogs so different? If eating any meat is…

It is hypocritical for us to arbitrarily care so much more for dogs in these horrible intensive farming situations, than we do for the pigs and cows and chickens, who feel just as much pain, in farms here at home. That being said, I cannot WAIT to see Game Changers - the movie.

Hmm. that doesnt sound like the book at all. It was very sad and lovely

I’ll be the one to say it, baby feet are already weird and those toes are so damn long.

I doubt it was a real one. Probably a replica. Maybe even a blunt one, enforcing the idea that it cannot cut anything.

Totally. She’s one of those people that have had so much surgery that it actually makes them look older. She’s only 26!!

How come the high school students who got shot at and don’t want to get shot at anymore are “crisis actors” but the 19-year-old who shot at them and killed their friends is a “broken child”?

I don’t necessarily blame porn for that

Backpfeifengesicht...

Pretty sure I’ve seen that porn.

“The only thing that stops a bad boy watching porno is a good boy... wait... that’s not working out the way I thought.” - The Florida Legislature

That guy here. Heads are disembodied. Bodies are decapitated.

I had the same thought! He just admitted to coming back from West Africa which maybe grows coffee (no idea, too lazy to do the research) but either way, some really bangin’ coffee comes from Africa so he had to have smelled/tasted “real coffee” at some point.

If they’re old enough to be asked to do battle with school shooters in hand-to-hand combat, they’re old enough to have a say in school policy.

“That’s something I wanted at the last Olympics, to share a kiss with my boyfriend at the bottom and it was something I was too scared to do for myself,” he told the New York Times.

So THAT is how you’re supposed to dance to that kind of music?!? Wow... that video is mesmerizing, I am sad that I missed this particular cultural trend.