It is illegal under international law. However, despite censure from UNHCR and the UN, and condemnation of the policy from other countries, there are no actual punishments for doing it. And to bring a claim against Australia in the ICC, a plaintiff would need to be sponsored by their country - and that’s not going to…

The rejection of New Zealand’s offer of refuge is such a clusterfuck (my keyboard corrected that to clostridium, which isn’t far off, given that it gives a lot of people the shits). At least if the libs get turfed in the next election we might see some third-country agreements actually take place, poor alternative…

I kept looking at Jenny McCarthy’s see-through top and remind myself that she is an anti-vaxxer. 

i refuse to give a single fuck whenever hubz is sick, i don’t believe he is in even 1/10 of the pain he pretends to be in.

they’re all the same color and style so everyone knows which master owns them.  

i just keep in mind whatever happened to Michael happened to all his siblings as well.

One of my sisters was very tall for her age and thin. She had a prairie dress during the height of their popularity in the 1970s. Recently we all came across a photo of her wearing it. Even she remarked that she looked like she was in her 40s. She was 9.

Yeah, this is why I always laugh when people get tatts with japanese or chinese characters. People think it means “Strength” or “Honor” or whatever, when it really reads “farts” or “salami”

Okay, pissing contest story time: I was in undergrad with a girl who had some tattooed Mandarin (?I’m not clear on character usage) characters on her feet in diagonal slants where the straps of a flip flop sandal would go. They looked great, so I asked her what they meant. She told me they straight up said “Fur /…

You guys should consider stepping out of your echo chamber a couple of times a decade to calibrate some of this stuff with, like, actual grown-up society. I’m a lefty/progressive/ally type dude but this IF YOU WEAR THIS POPULAR DRESS STYLE YOU LITERALLY COMMITTED THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE is not grounded in reason…

Yes, this is it exactly. Regardless of whether you are slow or uncoordinated, you should learn about physical activity and engage in it, in some form. It’s undeniably good for you, provided you don’t have any medical limitations. Just like I think children need to start learning about nutrition at a young age, I think…

Wilder wrote a series of semi-autobiographical novels to teach children about a different and already faded way of life. We do history a disservice by not showing how the settlers took over Indian land and by not showing the animosity that developed between them. Perhaps, you should consider reading her until recently…

My sister and wife were going to get prairie dresses, but they died of cholera.

I think ‘P.E’ works better when it’s ungraded, when the activity is aimed at general fitness rather than organised sport, and when everyone does the same thing at the same time so one kid isn’t being singled out. I loathed P.E at school, despite being a sporty, relatively athletic kid (I did both summer and winter…

This bootstrapy bullshit comment glosses over the whole bullying aspect, which is very real and very shitty, not to mention the added body image horrors especially if you’re female.

The same as its always been for anyone not able to physically dominate their bully: just endure.

Exactly. It’s doubly fun when the assholes are aiming the ball at your head. And you’re not good at anything physical so the teacher gets annoyed with you and the assholes get annoyed with you. I never had a more miserable time in school than in gym class. And swimming! Ugh, getting naked and having to shower before…

OMG, I failed gym (in Texas, the worst) TWICE in hs and had to take summer school to make it up. I failed because I got high before class and fell asleep on the bleachers every day as an act of defiance. I REALLY did not want to do it. My best friend ALSO failed gym. Solidarity to all y’all that failed gym. FUCK GYM. 

I HATED gym throughout my entire K-12 career. Not because any of my teachers were bad, but because I was terrible and uncoordinated at every single thing. I also got hit in the head by softballs, volleyballs, soccer balls, basketballs, and those red rubber sadistic things; I never got more constructive advice than…

I have been run into on the slopes before and left. I assumed it was normal.