The admitting privileges requirements are bullshit. It’s just one more onerous requirement meant to force clinics to close. In no other specialty would an independent physician clinic be required to have admitting privileges to perform a procedure (see: outpatient surgery clinics such as plastics or vascular,…

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Am I the only one that saw that and thought “Ghostbusters”?

I was not aware of the Doe Network, and that certainly presents a complication Im not sure how to resolve. Maybe a waiting period for identification, such as “if the remains cannot be identified/ no next of kin can be found within three weeks (or whatever is a reasonable timeframe, i dont know how these investigations…

Social media is immediate, photos were likely up and being shared before the woman was ID’d and police got back to the station to even start looking for next of kin.

How would you word that law so that it doesn’t apply to other situations? For example, your right to record police brutality is constitutionally protected. If you enacted the sort of law you are proposing and it were upheld, it would be trivial to extend it to that situation. Do you actually want people to fear…

I would like for people to think about the realities of legislation before demanding it. It would be very difficult to create a law that would criminalize this behavior without infringing on first amendment rights. For example, your right to record police brutality and put it online is constitutionally protected. If…

Think that through: how would they write that law so that it also would not infringe on the right of people to report news (news reporters doing their job, which include photoreporting) or when photo journalists do documentaries and such of warzones or terror attacks, which often include photos of victims?

in this situation, i’d agree. but there may be times when people post pics or record video to preserve to scene or capture the attacker or to identify the victim. again, i dont think that’s what happened here, but id be cautious of the legislation you’re suggesting

M. A. yes.

Every time I see a story like this it make me love my husband a little more. For all the times he makes me cringe while doing it, he is Mr. Gets Involved In Shit. He calls 911 more than any person I’ve even met to report things like debris on the freeway. He once made a huge scene a restaurant bolting over to a…

Super gross. Mind if I engage in some armchair psychology?

Or insinuating that if you never fantasized about being a teenage girl, that it must be because you’re not masculine enough? What the actual fuck. That particular bit about how “all men have a fantasy of being teenage girls” is such horseshit. It’s not just “teenage girls” they want to be—it’s not normal zitty,…

Short-term sacrifice???? 4-8 years is a lot of time to fuck up the country and economy and undoing the past 8 years of progress—not to mention that the next President (and Party in control of Congress) will be nominating up to 4 Supreme Court Justices that will be impacting every American's life for years to come! If…

If you want real change to happen, I don’t think the place to start is at the top of the ticket in a presidential election year. Third parties should be building at the local and state levels to create active and vibrant political parties and the aparati necessary to win and govern there. Once they start doing that…

Those same people who love to whine about the Electoral College (“but whyyyy can’t it just be one person, one vote”) lean heavily on its existence to allow them to vote with their precious consciences instead of their fucking brains.

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It seems like a light sentence, yes, but being banned from a fifth of the US is impressive.

This woman really pisses me off. In my opinion, the National Park System is one of the greatest assets we have as Americans and they should be revered. They are treasures. Her going around putting her objectively terrible art on natural beauty is just disgusting to me.

I know a guy in San Diego who is a very talented graffiti artist. He actually sells his work and gets commissions. He was defending this woman when the story first broke, saying art was more important than rocks. I lost all respect for him. There are a million boring rocks that aren’t in national parks. Hell, you…