When these same types of "beliefs" are found in individuals, they are classified as mental illness. When they are found in groups, they're written off as religion rather than as Folie En Masse. Religions began as ways to explain phenomena we did not have the science yet to otherwise comprehend; we now have that…

No they don't. Most are mom n pop shops and their products are a million times more effective than the gums and patches and inhalers that big tobacco/big pharma do own. This is why they are trying to destroy the competition and they're succeeding in doing so because they can buy off members of congress. The guy making…

It takes 25 years for an avocado tree to grow to maturation and begin producing fruit. We should really all start planting now. You need a male and a female avocado pit.

It's a symptom of Ehler's-Danlos syndrome aka The Rubberman Disease. It's a collagen disorder that wreaks varying degrees of havoc on all the joints and connective tissues.

Exactly. Target and all chain US clothing retailers have bastardized clothing sizes to accommodate the ever swelling population to the degree that most of their clothing should already be considered plus size. We smaller people have to buy extremely over priced jeans a boutiques or shipped from Europe and Asia where…

All the clothes at Target and all other major US retailers are plus sized clothing; having a plus size department is simply fucking redundant. In high school, 15 years ago, I wore a size 2-4; today's sizes 2-4 are the equivalent of what used to be 8-10s. I am the exact same size and weight as I was then but now can…

You're implying that the magical thinking required for theism is not, itself, a mental illness.

You don't have to pay for them. Why would an average person who wants to stream movies on their TV want to spend $400 on an XBox + Gold? Most people are not stunted in adolescence and addicted to playing games.

They have hundreds of channels in their official store and hundreds more that are private and beta channels which you either need to hunt for or be invited to use. 1000 sounds low, frankly, for the quantity of channels I've seen listed.

The majority of their 1,000+ channels are laughable trash but no they're not available as Apple podcasts. You cannot watch Homemade Baptist Church Tent Vigil Weekly, Patriot Conspiracy Alien Freedom Digest and uncountable Public Domain Cowboy Horror channels which are all interrupted every three minutes for ten…

That's bullshit. The Kobo Auras are a million times better. But you guys don't get kick backs from Kobo the way you do from Amazon.

The shipping is not free. You pay $90 a year for shipping. You could simply wait until you have $30 worth of stuff in your cart and get actually free shipping with lower prices on the items you're buying and still get your stuff in 3 days. But why get something for free when you can pay $90 a year for it?! Amazon…

They need to list how much soy is tossed into each product as filler. There's your obesity problem. It's an estrogen mimic and destroying people's endocrine systems. Companies put it in everything from orange juice to frozen french fries, cheese to salad dressing and on and on and on — often not even listing it as an…

The HIPAA law states it must be a "reasonable" fee for covering no more than the cost of the actual paper and ink. Next time any of these people try to screw you, take them a copy of the law.

Walter, you should really do a sort of Hive Five of the major complaints patients have about their physicians and from it create listed post of how doctors can be better at their jobs. I've seen no less than 14 doctors in the last 18 months since having had to move to Ohio because of a debilitating chronic illness and…

It's illegal for them to charge you more than the cost of the copying and the mailing of the documents to get your own records. They are not allowed by law to charge you a service fee for this information nor a charge for whomever made the copies. Illegal. Look at the HIPAA site.

You've got to be a horrilbe doctor to give that advice. Had I relied on physicians with that kind of attitude I would never have known what was wrong with me nor known to get the genetic testing needed to confirm it —- and still, with this information in hand, along with confirming diagnoses from my docs in the state…

My mother who is 73 has profound hearing loss which she refuses to discuss much less treat. Do you have any suggestions about how I might successfully approach her about the problem? It's a genuine safety issue at this point: she can't hear the phone ring, the door bell, traffic, whether or not appliances or the oven…

I've been using my iPad 2 for about 2.5 years without a single problem and I use it generally all day, every day, seriously 12+ hours daily minimum. Over the last few months, I've noticed that the battery is needing to be charged a bit more frequently, but that's to be expected. Otherwise, it works so well I can't…

It's Frank Bennett; what'dya expect?