Smoking bans FTW

are you my sister?

very good point.

This is where my cultural relativist-leaning moral code stops, and NO JUST NO starts.

can't say anything but: yup.

if you were planning on having some beige feelings while crying on the train between now and when the record finally drops, you're going to have to hope that Bon Iver album holds up.

my favourite was when I opened the changing room door to find a butt-naked someone bending over right in front of it. Hello, stranger's vulva, great to meet you!:)

On the nakedness thing: I'm generally comfortable at the average level of nakedness. If everyone else is naked or in underwear, I'm not going to do the classic dance known as "ex-Catholic-changes-under-a-towel": it feels silly to be and almost insulting to them.

if there was degraded DNA in the bones,suspected to be Amelia Earhart's, then it's not ancient: and if it's ancient, it's not Amelia Earhart's.

In vino veritas, and all...

yup! I saw this on [everysaturdaymorning.wordpress.com] and it's the same shit:

it's not, otherwise organ donation would be slightly problematic.... another reason this bill seems entirely divorced from reality.

I thought 9-week-gestation heartbeats could only be seen using transvaginal ultrasound - did they seriously try that in the state house, or were they uninformed enough to use a fetoscope/doppler that early?

I am LOLing at the much smaller sign below that says "Ladies Choice"

When is President Bartlett going to swoop in on Air Force One and take custody of the children?

I'm sure that's part of it, but the data suggests that even if you've already been exposed to the strains, you're less likely to get clinically problematic diseases from them if you're vaccinated. Also your immune response is less vigorous the older you get, and the original trials weren't done in older people. The…

The effectiveness of the vaccine(s) haven't been tested in people over 26, hence why it's not a routine thing, but some doctors will still do it as long as you understand that the effectiveness isn't proven.

It wasn't tested in men, only women. That has changed, though.

He's apparently a cardiac surgeon. I don't know, from this and what else I've read about him, he wouldn't have my respect...

Dr. Oz, did you collect cereal boxes to get into the medical profession?