Poor guy. His kid brothers posthumously ruined his name.

If we have learned anything this democratic primary season; it’s that there are way too many white men whose blandness and mediocrity is only surpassed by their huge yawning maw of an ego that tells them they should be president.

I’m guessing that he lied about not retrieving enough eggs each time, which is incredibly fucked up. That process is really hard on you physically and mentally. That is hardly an isolated incident if he did it over and over. If you knowingly put a partner through that process when it isn’t required, you don’t give a…

On Friday, June 28, Bunch responded to Merkley with a letter of his own, explaining that the Smithsonian was legally required to maintain the name of Arthur M. Sackler, who, in 1982, donated $50 million worth of Asian art and artifacts to the institution, as well as an additional $4 million to help fund the building…

Uhhhhhm, he didn’t know about software specifically, but Marx spent a LOT of time thinking and writing about technological advances that would eventually bring down the marginal costs of production to the point where a communist society was feasible, buddy. That was kind of his whole thing, that you need…

Did Beyonce make her wealth by avoiding taxes, paying her employees poverty wages, exploiting loopholes in the tax laws, hiring undocumented workers, fighting union organizing, and encouraging her employees to apply for government benefits instead of paying for it herself?

I feel like it’s a version of the Ben Carson problem — a person who is brilliantly good at one thing assumes they will be equally good at a completely unrelated endeavor, then demonstrates their ineptitude at that separate endeavor, tarnishing their achievement in what they were really great at.

White family owns name for Oriental part of museum. Nothing to see here folks. 

It stuns me that they would go so far as to remove the name and then dissemble about the reason. Oh, the naming rights expired. Please. 

I have no strong feelings on this either way, but better reporting might have mentioned that there is one prominant place the name hasn’t been removed: the Smithsonian museums on our National Mall. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/smithsonian-sackler-gallery-letter-1590859

Damn. That could’ve been me.

Some of them might be covered but if you’ve got one of the really common high deductible plans so many employers have gone to offering, it's almost like being uninsured. I have a 5k deductible, sure I'd get a small reduction for having insurance but it's rarely enough to make a dent in the cost of treatment. 

Or having health insurance and being told it’s cosmetic so you have to pay out of pocket. And then being quoted an astronomical (for a poor person) amount of money for said cosmetic procedure.

The whole U.S. insurance model is to deny coverage, and only cover either common, well-documented type problems, or to only offer to cover something after repeated appeals.

Yay American healthcare! The only way to have your embarrassing medical maladies covered by someone is to share your story with the world.

a lot of people (myself included) let something go too long because they’re scared/embarrassed.  Human psychology is weird.  Early detection/treatment is always better and yet ultimately I think a lot of us deep down truly think if we ignore something, it *might* go away.  Which actually is sometimes true.

Embarrassment, lack of insurance, unable to get a referral to a dermatologist, being told that there’s nothing to be done by a GP.

That, and being told by their GP’s that it’s nothing to worry about.

Because insurance companies are assholes.

Probably. I suffer keloids myself and I live in a 3rd world country with access to free healthcare, and get them treated at a specialist for free. It’s something I’ll never take for granted.