Indigenous identity is not about DNA. This is what aggravates me so much about those fucking DNA-Ancestry commercials where people find out they’re “Native American” (just that, not what tribe, or clan, or anything else), and suddenly they’re pulling dreamcatchers out of their ass.

This is Canada, though. Because a kid hurt his leg at one time and his family almost had to have it amputated because they could not afford surgery is why we have universal health care today. This happened in Saskatchewan,just like this article:

On the other hand- treating them as merely property isn’t fair either - they ARE living beings that feel pain and emotion unlike say, - a couch.

It’s absolutely the Soloman approach though. Obviously neither of these people want that outcome, and having a judge throw that option down on the table is probably going to force them to act like adults and figure out this problem their own damn selves.

This is basically the judge’s way of saying “you people are pathetic and should resolve this yourself and neither of you deserves a dog.”

Yeah, but it seems more like a threat you throw out to motivate people to handle their own shit instead of running to a judge. “You want the courts involved in the custody of your dogs? Well the court sees your dogs as things, and when people can’t figure out who gets the thing, we sell it and divide the money. Is…

The wife in this case, according to the article, wanted to have custody of the dogs but for her ex to have visitation rights. The judge basically said that because dogs are property, it makes no sense to have a visitation schedule enforced by the courts, because that’s a waste of court resources. He’s not wrong.

Pitbull’s reaction to the trolls who sent him to Alaska won me over. He just strikes me as someone who does not take himself too seriously, and is in on the joke.

Also, they tend to get involved when honest arguments and reason have failed to work. The religious right can cry “oppression” whenever anything that they don’t like is passed. Arguing why their ideas are wrong with science doesn’t address the “you can’t tell me to go against my religion!” side of things.

Y’know, I am an atheist. I believe that most of TST folks are, too. So I want to get all criticizey on them and say “Hey, don’t use satire to try to make your point, just use honest argument”. But y’know what? Their shit works. And it seems like it’s often the only thing that does, particularly with this sort of…

2016 is when Satanists are the good guys.

I’ll believe they’re pro-life when they show as much concern for a child as they do for a fetus.

Should be Anti-Heterosex League, but we all know how they feel about the gays....

Plenty of Indigenous cultures are matrilineal. Also, many Indigenous cultures are matrifocal too, with women who are mothers and especially grandmothers holding decision making power, although men do the speaking. It is assumed that women who are mothers will have a greater capacity to make decisions that affect the…

But he hasn’t got it yet. If these women can’t inspire you to keep on fighting, I’m not sure anything can.

You know, it’s funny. You grow up and who do you love/trust/respect/fear more than your mom? Nobody right? But then we become teenagers and all of a sudden it’s like fashionable to pretend that women can’t do all the things that men can do and in some cases worlds better.

Seriously, the Baby Boomers are the whiniest, can’t-do, waste-of-space pussy generation ever. Just die already so Gen-X clean up your fucking mess.

I wish these old men would just die off already. FFS they all look like Senator Palpatine’s last dying breath before the dark side takes over.