I shop for gadgets or cool tee shirts on line. Generally I get distracted and don't buy anything. But I get the benefit of geek retail therapy nonetheless.

Actually it depends on how you look at the data. Do gay male couples gross more than a hetero couple on average? Yes. However if you control for the discrepancies disappear when you consider the differential benefit of marriage on the federal level. (For example having to pay taxes on one's partner's insurance…

"What we see is a criminal, a prisoner, a MURDERER who is getting life-changing surgery that is not necessary to live at a cost of thousands of dollars for FREE when there are thousands of non-criminal, non-MURDERERS out there with the same condition, living in fear and suffering abuse who are NOT eligible for this…

WTF? I don't get a discount because I'm queer? I mean, the cream-puff jokes just write themselves.

"but why should she have a free lifechanging surgery when Bonnie Lynn Lewis doesn't have a life anymore?"

"That being said, I agree that the surgery should not be funded by the state."

"There is a HUGE difference between prozac and gender surgery. HUGE. And you know it."

So you think that rape is an appropriate punishment that should be meted out in a criminal justice system?

Are you then saying that ONLY that care that is necessary to prevent death should be provided to prisoners? Prisoners with ulcers shouldn't get care unless they bleed. Prisoners with depression shouldn't get antidepressants. Prisoners with shingles shouldn't get pain medicine and/or antivirals.

When we as a society put people in prison we actually have a responsibility to provide them with basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, and health care are among them. If you take away people's ability to feed themselves, you have to give them food. If you take away their ability to hold a job, and thus in the US get…

Being protected from rape and violence is not 'special treatment' you asshole. That should be a given.

Some do. Medi-Cal covers treatment. The VA does. If you are an employee of the UC System you are covered. Or the city of Berkeley or SF.

So only life threatening illnesses should be treated while in prison? So people with chronic pain should suffer. And people with depression should be deprived of prozac.

Speaking as a bastard, I love the term. (My Daddy was the divorce lawyer when my Mom was divorced by her 2nd husband.)

This is exactly the reason that those of us who are normal doctors loathe fucking quacks like Dr Oz. I cringe when I even hear his voice. I want to squish his little credulous skull in a vise.

The term is used to describe arsenic that is organically bound. If anyone is retarded enough to think that any element is organic, they are not even worth wasting your breath on anyway.

No! No one ever lies on the AMCAS!

"Visit the 9/11 Memorial at Your Own Pace"

Talk to your parents and your pediatrician. You are right that you shouldn't take meds to sleep - *unless* they are given to you by your parents or primary care provider. However if you talk with your parents/doctor they may suggest something like melatonin or benadryl or even a prescription medicine to help you…

The real trick to doing this is going around the clock. People who stay up late perpetually have a problem with moving their sleep time backward, but forward is a piece of cake for them.