“SJW” was originally used to deride a certain kind of liberal, who would protest on Facebook and Twitter, and do pretty much nothing else. The warrior part was used ironically, because they were the farthest thing from actual warriors, doing almost nothing to help their cause except complaining on social media. They…

If it is, it’s excellent. If not...please read up on the 14th Amendment and its relationship to the Bill of Rights.

Is this satire?

Seems quite fashionable these days to call for punching people in the face whenever they disagree with you.

“...the communist regime in Cuba pretty much isolated the country...”

The first doctor I had when I moved to NYC diagnosed me with pernicious anemia and I had to get shots of B in my butt every three months. I switched doctors and told them my history, they re-did my blood tests, and were like, “Ummm, you definitely do not and probably did not have pernicious anemia. You’re running a…

It’s also why we are, on average, much taller.

It certainly seems like he’s desperately trying to get her symptoms to fit his theory. I simply assumed she was chronically depressed, which certainly wouldn’t be helped by all those tragedies in her life.

Mary Todd Lincoln lived in a time of crappy diets, no modern medicine, and no indoor plumbing yet survived to the age of 63 years old. Life expectancy for a white woman of her generation was about 40 years old. Which would seem to indicate she was physically fit for the times. She lost 3 of 4 children and had her…

I inherited my mom’s vintage Settlement Cookbook, published in the early 1900s. All the vegetables were boiled until soggy; there is so much lard. Heck, even just look at the diets you see from 1950s. The idea that everyone was gobbling up healthy and nutritious meals back in the mid-1800s is just idealization of the…

Maybe it wasn't pernicious anemia, but merely cranky anemia.

Some of the things that survive from the late 19th century are cookbooks for the middle class, restaurant menus from places that served the upper middle class, and memoirs from private cooks employed by the upper class (and the White House.) The higher you went the more you ate, but it wasn’t a healthier diet by any…

No, none of that. A wealthy person in the 1800s had less access to nutritious food compared to a person of similar status now. In fact, we now have a lot of vitamin-enriched foods (like milk with vitamin D and bread with folic acid) compared to the 1800s. Their food wasn’t more nutritious at all. Also, our present day…

While the number may be accurate (it appears to be a little high), it presents a very skewed picture. That median income includes families, couples, and individuals. Obviously, an individual making $76,000 is living a much better life than a family of 5.

You’re really trying to say that a single person earning $130K in Toronto still isn’t much? Compared to what exactly?

$130K isn’t that much? What fucking planet do you live on?

Here’s your median income for an Ontarian in 2013 as per Stats Canada: $31,820.

Except it really is compared to what the average Canadian/Canadian household makes.

Yea. The writing here has really gone down the shitter. Sorry to say it. I used to love this site. Not sure why I even check at all anymore. Maybe, I'm just hoping things get better one day.

Yea... Daggers ARE weapons. It's like asking "What's the point of an airplane designed to fly faster"?