I never would have let this happen.

I never would have let this happen.

If her beliefs and the way she acted on them make her mentally ill then there are a TON of people around me who are also mentally ill, so many that the CDC would have to declare some kind of mental-health epidemic.

I'm sure Bristol Palin has a blog post ready to go telling Santorum to stay away from politicians kids. Right?

You could have just linked to the article on Gawker yesterday about exactly the same thing.

I've been on meds (Lamictal) for bipolar disorder for 7 years and the last 5 I haven't been to a psychologist or a psychiatrist. I kind of miss going just because it's nice to be able to vent and be the center of attention but I don't have insurance and I live in America and I'm pretty resistant to paying 300 dollars…

Donate it. There are many women's shelters that give abused women a used cell phone so that their abuser won't know who they are calling. Even without the service you can still call 911.

A similar story about Nick Denton and what he thinks of commenting was up on Gawker a couple of days ago and as I was writing a comment I noticed there were not 1 but 2 stories about the happenings on Jersey Shore in the scroll at the right. That really says everything you need to know about where the quality problem…

Neil deGrasse Tyson?

Capitalism is organized crime.

The thing about reward is that you normally only get if the amount of the good thing you get exceeds the amount you expected. So if you excepted to get one scoop of ice cream and you get one scoop of icew cream there's no real reward signal, it's only when your brain expected one scoop and you got 2 that you get the…

These pharmacists may be wrong about the biology of implantation and they may be wrong about when life begins but I hope we would all agree that the idea of conscientious objection by itself (when not used in relation to false beliefs) is at least not something to be ridiculed. If it was the 1940s and these…

I'm not so sure about that. I'm in no way saying that her resposibility in any way equals that of Brown, but I think we have to hold people in a position to influence young women to a slightly higher level. If you're in the position where your decision making is likely to influence the decision making of a lot of…

Things motorists are aware of....

If something is an epidemic (obesity) then there is money to be made in ending it (unless it's poverty... and even then maybe there's a pill to not make you care if you're poor.... oh... right... television). And drug companies learned long ago that Americans love a pill. So the FDA really HAD to approve this pill.…

Look man, you're just not right. There are plenty of ways to screw up an engine or transmission that are going to cost you 5 grand to fix. On my $20,000 Mazda 3 that's 1/4 the cost of the car. The roadster costs $100,000 and the battery replacement is $40,000. That's 2/5ths the cost of the car. Not a major difference.…

Yeah and your car should activate numerous warning systems and call NASA when your oil or transmission fluid is no longer clean and effective. But they don't....

My whole point is that requiring oil is not a design flaw.... neither is requiring you to keep a charge in the battery.

Does your phone battery or laptop battery propel a large hunk of metal at 100MPH? I suspect not. So you personally have no idea the engineering involved in providing safeguards for the Tesla battery, do you? No. So you have no idea if it would make the car much more expensive or if it would cause some other drawback,…

Look.... to say this is a "Devsestating Design Problem" (!!!) is to say that it is a devastating design problem of internal combustion engines that they require oil. It's not a design failure at all. It's a failure of Tesla to INFORM people of the greivous consequences of letting the battery get to zero, but that's a…