I’m honestly starting to suspect that Slovenia’s Christmas is more like our Halloween. Or that she watched The Nightmare Before Christmas and got confused.

It’s because they have no taste. Look who they both married.

Considering the “aesthetics” Kanye brings to his “fashion” line it’s a miracle all the roses aren’t beige.

I’m sure the Marines who decided to get a cut will probably get punished. The company? Not so much. That’s usually how these things work.

Yea, that shit is annoying me. If we are going to be the party that believes women we have to walk the walk. He needs to be investigated, and if the allegations are credible (which they seem to be at the outset) he either needs to resign or be pushed out (if there is a way to do that under VA law).

True, and I imagine all 300 candidates for the nomination would probably want the same handful of potential VP picks, so I don’t think they will be pairing up any time soon. 

Laura’s daughter (who edited the books) does her best to make them as sugar coated as possible, so most of the books have a “weren’t those times so simple and wonderful?” vibe, with a little bit of “well, we know better now but they weren’t bad people,” thrown in. Occasionally Laura’s voice of “what the hell is wrong…

Oh, don’t get me wrong, if the look you are going for is “I don’t want people to look at me and find me physically attractive” then there is no better combination that black sneakers/ white tube socks/ pastel polyester dress hemmed to survive a flood. 

Yea, I’m just pointing out that their shift has been to “making life more uncomfortable for women” but are really concerned about keeping the leg-o-mutton sleeves. 

I don’t doubt that, it just wasn’t the case for my class in school (my siblings had similar experiences in their classes). It was a small school, and most of us where there on scholarship or money from our parish, so there wasn’t huge class differences, and the couple sports teams we had were terrible, so being on one…

The Dear America books educated me on the following topics that school never bothered with: “Indian” boarding schools, colorism, the Great Migration, who W.E.B. DuBois was, and child marriage, among other things.

Yea, Pa was an absolute asshole, and I think a lot of how insane Ma is is a coping mechanism for that. It’s not like she could just divorce him, and no amount of their kids nearly (or actually) dying ever dissuaded him from moving them into more and more dangerous locations. 

That would make sense. I never watched the show, so my memory is mostly of the books themselves. 

It never f*cking did. 

I feel like playing Oregon trail was a good counter-point to the saccharine sweetness- covered racism that was the Little House books. It was good to remember that these people led hard, often miserable lives and inflicted brutality on anyone who wasn’t exactly like them. I have never, ever, even once thought that…

It’s also just... how humans have carried their children since they’ve been human? The pram/stroller/carriage is a pretty recent invention, people. Unless you only ever wanted to be able to use one arm, you slung your kid on your back or tied them to your front.

Yea, the thing that kills me is that they not only wear these weird, out-of-date dresses, but they don’t wear them how they were even back in the day. Dresses like that were made out of natural materials (wool in the winter, light muslin in the summer) that let your skin breath. They were also, you know, tailored to…

Ours weren’t heavy? They didn’t hurt to be hit with, anyway. I went to a pretty small school, and frankly bullying simply wasn’t that much of an issue in our class, so no one was always like, the target of all the throws. If anything you tried to get your friends on the other team out. 

Even as a dorky, nonathletic kid without a ton of friends I never really disliked PE, but I think that might just be because we didn’t do a lot of organized sports. We occasionally played dodge ball for fun, but it was a lot of individual cardio, and grades were mostly for participation and attendance. If you weren’t…

Which, as someone in the military, is ironic, because a shorter, stockier body type is actually better suited for a lot of the things we actually have to do (like rucking or hauling heavy shit), whereas running 2 miles isn’t actually super useful outside of PT hours.