I don't have an autistic kid, but if I did, I would take offense to it. People are literally saying, I would rather risk my child suffering and dying from polio, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, mumps, the flu, rubella, etc., before autism. To me, that's just rude.

George Takei is a perfect human being.

Yea and it was an LLC annnnnnd the whole point of LLC is to avoid personal liability.

Yes. My cousin is autistic, and it enrages me to no end that these willfully ignorant people think they'd rather risk the death of their child than risk their child developing autism. Good to know that they in a way believe my cousin would have been better off dead.

Yes, very. I'm on the autism spectrum. I've also got a grandmother who was crippled by polio before the vaccine was available. I'm fine with having ASD. My grandma is not fine with having post polio syndrome.

I would imagine so. I know lots of autistic folks and their loved ones have long been frustrated with Autism Speaks because the organization acts like autism is the worst thing in the world, rather than a disorder that creates problems but which you can live and function with. It's completely unsurprising to me that…

I have an autistic kid. I'm pro vaccine b/c duh. The pros for sure outweigh the cons. Anti vaxxers piss me off for various reasons but it never occurred to me that trying to avoid autism was a straight diss. I mean, if there had been a way to avoid it I would have. But what those nut jobs don't get it that if your kid…

I have a few friends who have autistic children, and yes. They do find it insulting, and so do people with autism. The anti-vax stance implies that autistic kids are broken, or damaged, or not good enough as they are, rather than just kids having a different (and sometimes difficult) experience of the world around…

True. Red wine mustache, red wine teeth, red wine lip stain, all awful, but white wine tastes like cold vinegar and red wine tastes like delicious happiness, so good that we're willing to drink it dispite then having to do the brushing-your-teeth-with-your-finger thing in the bathroom for the rest of the night.

Having lost a friend to suicide, and having seen my siblings lose friends to suicide, all I can say is that I truly feel for Mick, and for L'Wren's loved ones. I wish I could hug close every person out there even remotely considering taking their own life, and tell them how absolutely loved and cherished they are, no…

Personally, I find it really sexy when my mate understands that the process of peer review occasionally uncovers falsified data which results in studies being redacted and the author losing their medical license and reputation. Gets me so hot when someone knows that.

It's no contest. A dry, gin martini is my jam. MY JAM.

How is krokodil not winning?! It is the future AND it has gasoline in it!

As a sensitive mom with a sensitive pre-schooler, I worry too. My MIL says the worst thing she ever had to do as a mother (aside from the vaginal upside-down breech birth) was teach my BIL that 'it wasn't ok to cry'. He would get teased mercilessly and when he cried - it would worse and worse. She didn't like teaching…

You don't have to support or condone Jezebel, or any news site/blog, for them to report on you. I'm confused. If that was an actual thing - making sure the people and stories you're covering approved of your news outlet before you released content - reporting wouldn't exist.

Oh, the first time another girl was willfully cruel to my daughter was awful-for me. Luckily my daughter was too young to realize what was happening, but ugh- girls can be so mean (which us not to say that boys aren't as well).

Getting off an airplane in California literally involves walking through a tunnel that says it causes cancer because California.

I totally understand that. I have an Aspie kid, and he doesn't always like stuff that other kids like. He saw a classmate when we were in a restaurant one night and tried to say hi to him, and the kid totally dissed him. My son didn't really notice, but I thought it ironic that they taught my kid social skills in…

Building on that: with a sufficiently powerful mass spectrometer, it's possible to detect lead in pretty much everything on the planet. We used a lot of it during the leaded-gasoline days, and it got everywhere.

And purple is the color of bad-asses.