No one's romanticizing it. Read better.

Dude are you familiar with how the Supreme Court works? It's not like they issue a ruling, and we all go, wow, that's interesting. They issue a ruling and it affects how the law is interpreted and complied with at every level. They are the final word. All they DO is governmental policy. That's it. Were you sick that…

They mentioned this on NPR a few days ago as well. It's been a concern in Africa with so many prominent doctors, that have taking the same procedures they always have when disposing of the suits, still becoming infected.

No way! This is a private hospital. That would only cut into profits.

I know it's like another form of victim blaming. I'm pretty sure if he'd really thought he had Ebola he wouldn't have let them send him home from the ER. He'd have sat right down and been all, "I've got EBOLA TREAT ME."

That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that the more opportunities it has to reproduce and mutate, the greater the chance that it will have to evolve something that makes it hardier once outside the human body. I'm not saying that it MUST evolve that feature, but simply that the more it reproduces, the greater…

Actually, since evolution is a function of reproduction, the more victims this virus infects, the greater its chances of evolving into a much more transmissible form. So there's some reason to worry.

Yep. There's every chance Mr. Duncan would still be alive, and that these nurses wouldn't be battling Ebola right now, IF THEY HAD JUST ADMITTED HIM WHEN HE WENT TO THE ER THE FIRST TIME.

The Nervous Breakdown & Jealous Again EPs are micro-masterpieces of genuinely brilliant and inspired music. Other than that ... meh.

Bye.

"the hospital is no longer taking new emergency room patients"

You need more Clarence Carter in your life, my friend.

by the time this 11-year-old is done showing you what she can do with her body, you'll want to take a nap.

My freshman year of college, I made the mistake of dating a very serious born-again Christian. (I was raised both Catholic and Unitarian Universalist, I'm not sure what he was doing in the relationship either.)

I'm arguing for sustainable mixed farming, not either or. There are plenty of commercial veg crops that currently put a huge strain on the environment as well as workers, and I'm not just talking about the crops that feed cows, pigs, chickens, etc. With our current population rates, we simply do not have the space…

The entire concept of "nature" is artificial and only exists in opposition to humans, as if we're not part of it. If human intelligence is "natural" (spoiler: I think it is), then so are all the things we do with it. That's not to say that all those things are necessarily ethical, and we can certainly have debate…

I like how so many of these people focus on the "cute" animals. I have the same attitude towards whitetail deer that a lot of people in this thread have towards chickens. I grew up around them, and my family and I did a lot to maintain the habitat on our property to support the deer and turkeys that lived there.

Well, we wouldn't be able to know that until we opened the box.