My mom was in (total) labor for over 72 hours with my sister...she feels your pain.

This was a systematic problem when I was an undergraduate 15 years ago. While in school, I worked as an assistant in one of the university’s departments and got to see the reality of what GTAs and adjunct professors go through in order to make a decent wage. I’ll never forget an adjunct professor literally begging for…

This really deserved more attention. I’m dying.

You’re right. It isn’t a big to-do. It’s clear from the entirety of the interview that she was joking. I mean, the woman has just spent two years being demonized and people actually think she is trying to bribe Ezra for good press? Hahahahaah...

Congrats on your sobriety and continued good wishes. :)

This reminds me of a story from Marlee Matlin’s autobiography about the 1987 Oscars. Both she and her then-boyfriend William Hurt were nominated for Children of a Lesser God - she won Best Actress, he lost Best Actor. After the show, she got into a limo with him and said (and I’m paraphrasing here) “You think you’re…

Yep, and apparently pre-existing conditions are a moral failing now, too. I was watching C-SPAN this morning and a woman called in and told a harrowing and sad story about not being able to afford her heart medications if her Medicaid coverage is reduced (her meds are over $700 a month but because of Medicaid she…

The disabled rights community is always active, always among the first to take action and (here, quite literally) take a hit for those who are powerless. I would say that Republicans should be ashamed of themselves, but clearly they are unfamiliar with the concept.

Exactly. “Performance-enhancing” steroids are not equivalent to steroidal therapy for autoimmune disease. Steroidal therapy can be extremely debilitating and turn one’s world upside down.

Autoimmune disorders vary wildly in their severity and diseases/syndromes can affect individual patients in very different ways. For example, my sister has Crohn’s disease. Her health is fair, and she has a rigorous regimen of diet and drug therapy but still experiences regular, sustained pain - yet her particular…

Possible Spicy replacement Kimberly Guilfoyle, speaking with Breitbart, on her former boss, Roger Ailes:

My sister and I just screamed in unison. Her pregnancy couture is going to be off the fucking chain.

Ben Bailey does commercials for DTE (Detroit Edison) here in Michigan, so whenever I see him on my telly I always lament the demise of Cash Cab.

Dear Academy: Borrow/pay for TCM’s year-end “In Memoriam” and just let it play on the Oscar telecast. TCM’s 3-4 minute montages never miss anyone, they are as classy as hell and don’t feel cheesy or exploitative.

Here are the results those of us in Michigan who have the misfortune to have a Republican U.S. House rep, state rep, or state senator get when searching the FEC contributor database. And this isn’t even counting Devos-controlled PACS like Alticore PAC (Amway’s lobbying arm).

I worked in retail throughout high school. My “song of death” was the Smash Mouth cover of “I’m a Believer” from the Shrek soundtrack. Did I mention I worked in a TOY STORE? Yeah, that shit haunted my dreams.

Oh, thank God. My stomach was in an angry knot (any Tucker Carlson-related story does that to me) and now I’m cool.

I think in talking about long-term opioid use for chronic pain (not including cancers), it is helpful to distinguish between addiction and dependence. The (multiple) studies that Scientific American used to form its conclusions make clear that, while the numbers of physically dependent patients using opioids are…

This is actually a common misconception. There is scant evidence to suggest there is a “significant” overlap between patients who report chronic pain conditions and those suffering from opiate addiction(s). For example, Scientific American reports that