It's her fault why? Because she chose to work in health care and help save people's lives on a daily basis?

Do yourselves a favor and don't read the comments on the Dallas Morning News article. People are calling her all sorts of horrible things on the grounds that she should just be grateful to be alive and that it's her own fault for getting ebola (ebola!) - never mind that it was the hospital's incompetence that…

On Gawker, it says that the video of her in the hospital was recorded without her consent and that they (the hospital) released her information despite her requests not to. :o(

Just thought I'd point out as I see a lot of people making comments as if these girls were older: "College" in most other countries is often a prepatory high school. It looks like that is probably the case here as her younger sister (who attended also) looks to be 14 or 15 from the news stories. Some colleges can have…

I think it's kind of cute how you think my experience might have been colored by other media events happening at the time. Instead, my experience has been colored by the Social Security Administration's Administrative Law Judges assuming my 53-year-old clients are lying, even though their MRIs show severe central…

Basically, your theoretical brain exercise is my clients' living nightmare.

Congress and the Social Security Administration have used these media reports as a reason to decline deserving people from receiving disability. They now think every applicant is lying or exaggerating. Even clients who are homeless because they are not capable of working. It was all part of a political agenda and the…

I can see that as a take-away, but this is the population I serve and this piece was served up in conjunction (within the same period of time) with articles from CBS's 60 Minutes and NYT pieces that made it really look like TAL fell into a tea party agenda. I guess I thought better of them and thought they'd be more…

Stock a whole show with white 30-40-year-old hipsters and hipster wannabes and you're bound to end up with some racist shit.

TAL has some great stuff, but some of the most racist stuff I've heard also comes from there. There was some show about either a juvenile detention center or prison that was especially bad.

Let's just say Chana and Ira, who vigorously defended her, were shills for all the tea party jerks who think people with disabilities are just lazy sponges. Hey, let's just go back to the good old days when people with disabilities were forced to beg on the street corner or die.

I've loved TAL for many years, but I listen to it with a lot of skepticism now. This is because of (then-Planet Money reporter) Chana Joffe-Walt's ridiculously lazy story about people who receive Social Security disability benefits, which was run on TAL. Until that point, I'd really liked the Planet Money podcast…

I'm so happy for Zephany's parents but I wonder how Zephany feels. The Guardian article didn't quote her and I can't imagine how hard it would be to find out the people you thought were your family were actually your abductors.

Was it?

Apparently their break ups etc over the years were due to pressure from his social circle who disliked her because she was 'new' money etc. It's believable to me but who knows if it's true!

Netflix giveth, Netflix taketh away. My w-year-old son is currently obsessed with Pee Wee because, I, in a fit of nostalgia and being The Cool Parent, found it on Netflix and put it on for him. He was immediately hearts-in-eyes. I have now watched every episode of all 5 seasons over the span of the last three weeks…

Mekka Lekka Hi Mekka Hiney Ho!

"If you have any jihadi bride tips" though? What, for the next post on I Thee Dread, one of Gawker's new, single-topic Kinja boards?

wow, why are you so defensive?

Ummm... the tone of this article was really flippant. I'd love to see some more well-thought out posts about ISIS, how they view/treat women and children, and why/how these girls may have been convinced to leave their (comfortable?) lives and travel to a war zone. I know Jez isn't the NYT, but I think you guys could…