It’s strictly a coincidence that the Polio vaccine innoculations and Ray Kroc’s aquisition of McDonald’s happened around the same period in time. Note that the number of reported cases of Polio dropped year by year as the number of McDonald’s outlets multiplied almost exponentially. So-called “scientists” and…

Good for them. Medical providers HAVE to push back on this- politicians should not be prescribing medical treatment through legislation. They went to law school, not medical school and need to stay in their fucking lane. 

This is really myopic.

I’m a full-time university staff member who has begun teaching as an adjunct.

In 2004 my history professor who was eking out an existence at age 35 teaching at the local Junior College in addition to the State U that I was at flat out told me: “Don’t become a history professor. You will never get tenure and you will never get out of debt. Don’t be like me.”

I basically stopped trying to reinvent myself.

This was hardly an attempt at a full reinvention, but it was a small, failed attempt at something that remains a mystery to me to this day. See, I was never a cool kid—a total nerd, geek, and dork—always behind current styles. In middle school, my social goal was simply to keep my head down and not stand out.

The staircase giveth and the staircase taketh away

After a month, wherever I am, I speak in the local accent.

After a month, wherever I am, I speak in the local accent. I hate that I do it, but it is totally subconscious and I am completely unaware of it happening until questioned about it. Plus, I am beyond absent-minded, so that doesn’t help.

Yeah. I was really down because nobody signed my yearbook on the last day of school, so - when our neighbor loaned my family his beach house for the summer - I decided to not pack anything (not even my Gore Vidal books).

When we got to the beach town, my mom took me shopping and I did kind of a grunge-y beach bum sort…

I completely, and successfully, changed my personality for camp one summer. I am a shy and neurotic bitch, constantly fearful of rejection by my peers, who would genuinely prefer people not remember me than remember me for the wrong reasons. My picture does not appear at all in my high school year books, and I am so…

My summer reinvention was a reluctant and failed one.

Jovial baby is jovial.

Well, so I think Rich might have found the incident or a comparable one - it’s possible the crash did happen, but it was more of an emergency landing than the yarn being spun here. There’s no way she could have covered up a firey plane crash that resulted in immediate life threatening injuries, she could have covered…

There actually is a lot in her story that makes sense. For example, it is entirely possible that “drugs didn’t really work” AND that she became dependent on them (this happens to lots of people).

I had no idea she was this qualified to be President.

MC Skat Kat, ne Gavin Wilkinson, quit heroin eight years ago with the help of his third wife, Moonbeam, who is a doula and homeopathic soda maker. They live on their ranch in Topanga with their sons Sol, Xerxes, and Squanto and are completely off-grid and unvaccinated. Skat Kat just released his third folk album with…

I hate that I’m citing this, but she was always such a sweetie on American Idol (yes, I know it was her “role,” but it seemed really genuine). I love how even when she thought an audition was so heinous it rendered her into fits of laughter, she had the decency to laugh behind a binder or something. Like, Paula!…

She has RA? I didn’t even know that and I was thinking “dude, my joints would hurt so much after that.” I am 41 and do not have RA, and my hat goes off to her...and then hits Julianne Hough in the neck.