It was more the “welp, maybe we accidently dosed the heck out of you again!” that bugged me, although I honestly wasn’t losing sleep over it. I also managed to get myself exposed to much-more-dangerous-than-expected samples of radioactive material in high school. Plus some freaky chemical exposures. Basically I’m just…

Yeah, a little the same here, except for the doctor catching the YUGE amount of radiological stuff in my history. I was in horrible, constant pain, and they were trying to find out why (they actually never found out the entire issue - it was not a fun couple years), so I was going along with whatever in hopes it would…

There are still some...unfortunate...things going on with radiation in medicine, although I’m willing to believe there’s not malice. I say this as someone who had, oh, five or six CT scans in the space of a couple years about 12 or 13 years ago, in addition to a ton of other scans, and shortly after all that was done,…

Maybe? It’s a better explanation than any I’ve been able to come up with.

April Ryan is a treasure. She deserves every accolade she gets, and more.

Yeah, that was a pleasant change of pace, which is kinda depressing in and of itself.

You’re welcome! Not necessarily deliberately, just at the hand of another human being - as long as human action directly resulted in the death, it’s considered homicide. There are further specifications when criminal charges are brought to bear (negligent homicide, vehicular homicide, murder, manslaughter, &etc.), but…

“Homicide” just means the manner of death - prisoners executed by the state are also ruled as homicides, just for info. Absolutely agree that the cop is a murderer, though, who needs to be behind bars immediately.

I once saw a Mexican dude with a tricked-out lowrider flying a HUGE confederate flag and an equally large Mexican flag off his car. My brain cramped. The confederate flag was on the driver’s side, which somehow added to the weirdness. My Mexican friends were equally baffled.

Agatha Christie actually used an anthrax-tainted shaving brush as a murder weapon in a story!

Just jumping in as a crime nerd - the Kimberly Leach trial was separate from the trial for the murders of Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy. Bundy’s trials can get confusing, honestly, because there were so many, and so very, very many appeals.

RIGHT?! Like, how can you be alive right now, and not know the racist overtones, and, why would you think that shit was funny even without the racist overtones?!

I was literally getting a bit misty-eyed reading this. I miss the Obamas so much.

Not only is that cashier racist, but she’s also a generalized idiot. Like, I don’t even have regular contact with children, but even I know that Doc McStuffins is an insanely popular character.

Thank you for posting this - the violence is so common, and so terrible.

I saw a meme saying something similar about Italians - like, Italians came here illegally all the time, and often never learned English!!! These people are stunningly ignorant.

Oh gods - you have my sympathy.

I’m hoping they’ll outweigh the short-sighted profiteers. Fingers crossed.

Yeah, I honestly think most of them voted out of pure spite - “Let’s show those liberals!”. Some were just embarrassingly conned (I cannot feel bad for them; if you fall for fucking three-card Monte, you deserve what you get), and some were perfectly happy to install a kleptocracy because they’re rich enough to…

Yeah, I miss the old mod days. Like, some of the fuckos who show up should/would have been banhammered back then, and even the mild trolls or general dinguses would have been something us readers/commenters would not have to sift through.