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.

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…

It's Frank Bennett; what'dya expect?

Hulu Plus has 800+ Criterion Collection films. Netflix has episodes of Sister Wives. I am forced to assume that anyone who can't find anything "interesting" to watch on Hulu Plus has horrible and completely pedestrian taste in film.

Not trolling. Gifs are the equivalent of maggots.

What about those of us who dislike receiving clitoral stimulation and come exclusively and easily from penetration?

They're too distracting. I can't concentrate on anything else on the page like the text I'm trying to read if there's repetitive movement blinking flashing bouncing over and over and over again. And there are no extensions for iOS browsers to limit gifs to one play. They completely fucking ruin the internet for me.…

I block all .gifs at a router level. This garbage needs to fucking stop.

People with autism (and quite a few other disorders and illnesses which the proper testing, treatment and management of have eluded non-epigenetic allopathic physicians) have hereditary MTHFR and p450 mutations. These mutations impair and at times even completely impede methylation and detox, i.e. their livers do not…

Bathtub farts smell worse than air farts.

No one would ever buy anything if the item had to honestly meet all three of those criteria.