It’s the internet. There is absolutely someone out there who is stupid enough to blame the kids for this.

Is the cute story version just the stuff about the tea party and the midnight ride and how King George was mean? What did you try to teach them?

I’m guessing the slave is smiling because it was drawn by a frikkin’ eight year old? Lots and lots of bad judgement to go around, here, but I don’t think any of it lands on the little kids who drew the actual posters.

This is nothing. A friend of mine told me her elementary school teacher divided up the class into Jews and Nazis and let the latter treat the former like shit so “everyone could learn about the Holocaust.” (Age appropriate materials weren’t doing the trick? I don’t know.)

As a teacher this baffles me. How could anyone think that this was a good idea?!

It was insanely hot and I’m also a straight woman with a basically nonexistent libido.

truth is all those poor people who you see in all those “Poor Trump voter worries about losing health care” stories will probably vote for him again despite either almost or completely taking away their health care

Can we call it “Trumpdon’tcare?”

I will bring this up until the day that this is no longer an issue (probably forever?): 9 of the 10 counties in Washington state that benefited the most from Obamacare also voted for Donald Trump.

Yep. They are like the people who stay in abusive relationships no matter how much they get hurt.

This shit has been going on for years:

So soft and white. Like a dead fish’s belly.

For a 71 year old... his hands actually look great.

It’s weird to me how young his hands look compared to his face. That’s the opposite of many people I know.

Seriously. The Hapsburg jaw is a real thing. Not to mention, many of the family members of the Holy Roman Empire were totally batshit crazy because of inbreeding.

Well, more precisely, he BELIEVES biological isolationism is possible. He feels and believes the things that he wishes were true— ergo they are true. Facts, meh, his type wants no truck with them. Gets in the way of things they believe to be true.

The ‘Shawshank’ reference makes you win the internet for today.

Ha! My best friend from high school is actually in it (for one episode before she gets killed I guess).

Mostly, I stick to NPR, Smithsonian, and Marketplace for the in-depth news. I use GMG for any headlines which I decide to dig into later, as well as coverage about things that aren’t generally covered by my outlets of choice (like Jalopnik).

All but the final two - I just WANT them. I want all the kittehs - but am too smart to have more than - who am I kidding?