Seriously? There were like a dozen guys there. The cop plus me and my husband would have taken that crazy cracker out. WTF was everyone doing filming it and not helping the transit cop take crazy down? In some videos it's obvious that the situation is too explosive for someone except for cops to react, but it's not…

As a physician who has helped my patients apply for disability, I cane tell you in my experience that is as rare as Reagan's 'welfare Cadillacs'. The process of getting SSDI is not just onerous, its inhumane. I've had a patient paralyzed on one side by a stroke that was initially denied (and not due to a paperwork…

I would not mind if it was limo rides and beer volcanoes that Google were denying lower-class workers. But many contract workers are uninsured (or underinsured.) I volunteer as a physician at a community clinic in San Francisco (that treats everyone regardless of their ability to pay.) I have two Google (red-badged)…

Actually, the 8th Amendment to the US constitution* requires that prisons provide all medically necessary care. They actually do have a vested interest in providing mental health services for all prisoners - failure to do so that results in suicide or other demonstrable harm sets them up for a lawsuit (often courtesy…

Would we be asking the same question if it were an appendectomy for appendicitis? Or treatment for depression? Why is this different?

@kappakappaspankme: "The young woman in question may be hurt, she may be very angry but you are in NO position to determine..."

@kappakappaspankme: "Are we not talking about the same age of individuals who lack such judgment that they text naked photos of themselves and think they wouldn't end up on the internet?"

Perhaps she should convert to my faith!

The good part in all of this is that the Rethuglican's are repeatedly offending a metric fuck-ton of women with bullshit like this. And y'all vote more consistently than my team.

@Ella Psy.D: Amen!

@kappakappaspankme: Sociopath and Psychopath are both older terms for someone with a personality disorder (particularly antisocial PD, but also used for Borderline PD).

@temperance: You're obviously as much of a sociopath as the young woman who did this in the first place. Do all of us a favor and get your tubes tied now, K?

Mom needs this done to her every single time that she does it to that boy.

@WrittenPyramids: Sure. I'll take them.

@Dirk Anger: @Dirk Anger: "I agree (said it for the third time in this thread) that exams are useless for most career paths,"

So much for hippies being tolerant. Really, Montessori? Really? You gave a three year old girl an ultimatum that she not piss her pants or she would be expelled?

@Dirk Anger: "the point is Stephen Hawking can have special help in his daily job, which is the reason why I think meds are OK but special exams aren't. The point of exams is not only to measure your knowledge, but also your capacity to work under pressure and with limited time."

@Dirk Anger: "the point is Stephen Hawking can have special help in his daily job, which is the reason why I think meds are OK but special exams aren't. The point of exams is not only to measure your knowledge, but also your capacity to work under pressure and with limited time."

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: "I was talking more about the whole concept of 'differently abeled.' Some people can do certain things, others can't. If I can't do something that you can do without extra help, I can't do it as well. If I get extra help to arrive at the same place you did then I did not do it as well as you did no…

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: "Say you are running a V-fib arrest at 2AM and your the only doc around. If the patient doesn't respond to defibrillation, do you get to ask for more time to try to remember what to do next?"