My grandson was born just over a month ago. Uneventful, planned pregnancy. Day after his birth, he was diagnosed with severe aortic valve blockage. A balloon valvoplasty and then 30 days in newborn/pediatric intensive care. He will need major heart surgery. This is a 1 in 3,000 birth type event. There was no…

I don’t think all religious people are supporters of the Family Research Council (which I will simply assume is some terrible anti gay anti abortion group). I do however think that organized religion is incongruous with basic science. So if you tell me you’re Christian I kind of have to assume you believe in a…

Society at large seems to be full of modern countries other than the US who have both a single-payer health care system and massively less obesity than the US.

My girlfriend was suffering from extreme dehydration at my sister’s wedding and we needed to go to the ER because we weren’t sure what was going on. In 2.5 hours in the ER, she had:

Do you really think people are going to say “MORE DORITOES!” if we end up with a universal system?

Just a reminder:

Look, if the Founding Fathers had wanted to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, and promote the general welfare, they would have said so.

A million times this. I find if maddening that a large overlap of people are “Blue Lives Matter” types who think the concept of a state funded police department is sacrosanct, but think that the idea that the government protecting its citizens via heath care is stuff straight out of USSR.

They are variations on the…

Wouldnt the actual solution be to understand that “pro=gaming” isnt an actual career and unless you have a backup plan/education expect to be employed in fast food when the bottom/your skill drops out.

Yeah. It’s a little deceiving, though, since franchise QBs are among the NFL players most likely to play out the duration of their deals. Unless Rodgers’s play suddenly falls off a cliff, it’s not like the Packers are going to cut him once his guarantees run out.

Eh, The Simpsons reruns aren’t on FXX on Wednesday nights, so I was flipping between this, the LSU/Florida St baseball game and CSI reruns. Not a lot of high cards in the ol’ Wednesday night TV deck.

He leads the NL in WAR, ERA, strikeouts, FIP—all that good stuff.

Not even close. Tanaka lost a no hitter and the game in a way more infuriating fashion when he got shelled for six runs in the first inning against the Astros, last month.

Wow, the guy really will do anything to avoid writing new pages of Game of Thrones.

People saying this is convenient or a conspiracy are idiots. Seriously.
1 - Because it’s not convenient for two reasons: Cap recapture and losing one of the team’s best players, a guy who would be team captain in maybe any other team except the Penguins.
2 - People with no medical knowledge have absolutely no idea how…

So I’m 32, been smoking cigs for two decades. I had a friend’s bachelor party at the beach a month ago. On Saturday I was out on the beach day drinking, tequila and light beer, then we went to a club Sunday night and it was shots shots shots. Sunday morning the guy I was sharing a room with gets up at 6:00am to head…

The biggest reason to have them is so you know when it’s below freezing outside so you can watch for ice.

Except when the guy’s driving all around New England and his son gets one or two innings in right and maybe an AB. Pass...

Sometimes outside car thermometers are so inaccurate that they feel like random number generators. They’re basically the worst feature of the car, next to the car’s infotainment systems. That’s because [...] they’re actually thermistors.

“The CDC recommends that kids remain in the back seat until age 12"
I had an argument with my wife about this. My son was 5'10" at age 12. I started letting him sit in the front around age 9, when he was the same height as my wife.