Well, yes. That's my point. The Sacred Status of Whiteness is a socially-constructed thing which has everything to do with current prejudice and little or nothing to do with pigment.

Pendejitos?

There's also How Jews Became White Folks & What That Says About Race in America

I am the first person born White in my family. When my parents were growing up Jews weren't White. By the time I was born, we were. Irish became White a bit before. Italians had the Sacred Mantle of Whiteness bestowed on them at about the same time.

Any kiddie makeover is going too far

We should have done it years ago.

And Medicare and the rest absolutely do pay for antibiotics. They pay through the fucking nose. The same pill coming off the same assembly line and labelled "veterinary" can sell for an order of magnitude less than the human version. Medicare and Medicaid are forbidden by Law from negotiating anything like a…

The real problems are human overuse and routine addition of antibiotics to livestock feed in order to increase animal weight.

Fuck her

A Sikh doesn't take out his kirpan and stab everyone he meets. An unvaccinated herp-a-derper takes out his virus and attacks everyone for as far as a water droplet can go. And everyone those droplets touch. And everyone who comes in contact with everyone who is infected by those droplets. It's as if the whole…

The problem is that everyone who has listened to the filth hissed into their ears by McCarthy, Mercolla and Wakefield will claim they have deep, sincerely-held religious and philosophical objections. There cannot be any exceptions except for legitimate, specific, medical reasons.

I'm not torn at all. There's an old saying "Your right to swing your fist ends at your neighbor's face." Your right to your deeply-held religious beliefs is immensely important. You have no right to endanger others by taking actions based on those beliefs.

Just want to underscore that "get the TDAP booster". Pertussis is horrible even for a healthy adult.

I had the DPT vaccine as a kid, the one that turned out not to be all that good conferring long-term pertussis immunity to adults. Well, in my late 20s that led to Whooping Cough, and it was terrible. I spent more than 100 days coughing to the point of blacking out momentarily which made the drive home a real…

Very close, but I'll be pedantic just because the information is kinda cool.

100 years ago diphtheria was one of the top ten causes of death. Now it's not even a statistical blip. Before Jenner smallpox was so common "He is not pock-marked" was an identifying characteristic. Now the virus is extinct outside of two labs. Well into the middle of the 20th century tens of thousands of kids in…

And America's Jews and Muslims blink and say "Yeah? So?"

For the love of gawd and all his angels and saints WHY would you let some profit-fattened hyena take knives to your Kadosh Ha'Kadoshim?

I like Pulp Fiction best "The Holy of Holies"

Only "kinda evil"?