I guess I’m looking at the suspension as more of a safety measure than a punishment. I feel like there is a chance, however small it may be, that these kids are a danger to a fellow student, and were legitimately intent on killing her, and keeping them out of the school while whatever investigating they were doing was…

I’m thinking that “a basic understanding of ‘consent’, or even vague familiarity with the dictionary definition” is what would make this clear cut. The fuckwit making this comment seems to think that a heavily slurred, mumbled “yeah sure we can fuck” a few seconds before passing into unconciousness qualifies as…

Exactly. This definitely warrents a school psychologist sitting down with these kids, and a temporary suspension isn’t at all out of bounds. I’d maybe even suggest some pointed questions to their parents concerning their home environment just to make sure there’s nothing bad going on. Beyond that though? This isn’t…

Yup. “Other people are human the same way I am, have feelings like I do, and don’t want to be hurt any more than I do” is a pretty abstract bit of higher reasoning. Human beings aren’t born with the capacity for that kind of higher-order thinking.

Honestly, people are fucking awful, and there’s nothing any of us can do about it. If someone could fix the human race so that there were no longer any assholes, that’d be just peachy, but it’s never going to happen. What we can do is try to minimize the impact of assholes on decent, innocent people who don’t deserve…

My takeaway was that Batman and Superman were fighting because the world is a harsh, cruel, poorly lit, and super grimdark awful place where there are no good people at all ever, you can’t trust anybody, and there’s nothing good or even neutral in the entire world, only bad and more bad.

**maybe sort of spoilers, if anyone gives a shit**

Honestly, I see a lot more of:

You know that dumb joke “I don’t suffer from insanity, I actually quite enjoy it?”

What kind of 13-year-old claims rape?

Other acceptable collective nouns:

Dolezaling: what you do when plain old Columbusing isn’t enough to trip your trigger anymore.

That doesn’t matter to mjolnir2000. Just the fact that there’s a possibility that she could have committed a crime and lied about it is sufficient proof that she did commit the crime. It’s all part of our ‘presumed guilty until proven beyond any reasonable doubt to be innocent’ justice system.

I’ve always thought that he speaks like someone who either loves the sound of his own voice so much he can’t bear to not hear it for more than a second or two at a time. Or maybe someone who is absolutely unable to tolerate silence for any period of time. Or maybe some combination of the two.

You’re saying that I had a chance to buy a toilet from Commander William Riker? And I missed it!?

There’s another problem to consider here: environmental regulations.

I’d like to start a petition to get Michelle Obama that shirt, and make her wear it all the goddamn time.

“[I]think [Samuel L. Jackson] does too many TV commercials”

That is a really good way to put it, yes.

It was a real tragedy when they went under. Its been years, but I still mix my occasional bat-boy fix.