It's not just drinking and partying that can harm a future child. Living next to a freeway during and after pregnancy increases autism risk by 33%. While the anti-vaxxers are pushing their Typhoid Marys on the rest of us, the real problem is that diesel and car pollution has increased, and the pollution from these…

Good on you. They didn't teach us this stuff at school, and I was going to an inner city school. They had us read literature from the Harlem Renaissance, but nothing relevant to our struggles today. I remember some bill was up for debate in Congress about immigration and there was a huge walkout where a bunch of…

I feel safer in the hood than I do in the suburbs. People in the hood mind their own business, but heaven help me if I'm wearing a hoodie and walking around in the burbs. Doesn't matter if it has my alma mater on it, people always make comments.

Look at all the suburban people more upset and confused about the use of AAVE than the topic at hand.

Really? Then why for the past 20 years the hotspots of terrorism were in India and Colombia? Last I checked the majority of Colombians are Catholic and a huge portion of terrorism in India comes from the Naxals.

You're just making things up that have no relevance to the situation at hand. You're speculating at best and making judgments based on race at the worst.

I have schizoaffective disorder and never once have I used those types of words to refer to people. Not even my grandmother, who had full untreated schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and was often in the newspaper for walking around naked, used those slurs against people.

Let's not even get into the fact that studies have demonstrated that people have trouble identifying differing faces of those of different races, and this is among both blacks and whites. So "fitting the description" means "the suspect was a young black male and any young black male in the area is a suspect."

That's because the majority of people in America are satisfied with the status quo and lack solidarity. Communities of color and lower income communities are big on autonomy and solidarity, whereas your typical middle class suburban community or deed restricted community is big on tearing each other down.

As someone who had a professor attempt to seduce me and as a person who had some creeps in my barely adolescent life, there are parallels. The pervy professor and the pedophile engage in grooming behaviors, attempt to keep things secretive through game-type situations, and have an unequal power dynamic.

Ok, Little Eichmann.

I have a very rich white friend who turned on MSNBC and immediately called me. The first thing he said was, "Do you know what's going on in St. Louis?" The entire conversation consisted of me explaining the militarization of the police and race relations in Missouri.

Considering the FDA's less-than-stellar record with drugs like Vioxx and the process of taking years to put black box warnings on antidepressants, no. Not to mention the various ways pharmaceutical companies buy the FDA approval process and doctors.

Weed and alcohol don't make people hornier, it just lowers their inhibitions. Depending on who you're with it could be a very bad thing.

There's a reverse Viagra for women that causes their uteri to shrivel up and permanent sexual dysfunction. It's called encounters with Walking Fedoras Who Aren't Funny.

There's a reason why Saenz calls Austin "The People's Republic of Austin." Because it's vastly different from the rest of Texas. He's probably upset that his wife can be happy with the woman of her dreams while he sits rejected and lobs hatred at LGBT folks on the local news.

Because Jonathan Saenz is a self-righteous asshole every time he comes up on my screen. He's a hateful individual and the lobbying equivalent of Pat Robertson.

Or the sex slave massage parlors down the street from churches. There's a couple of those in my hood.

I was listening to a This American Life podcast on it and they said no one can get grants to do this research. One doctor at a university was blacklisted for suggesting that non-offending pedophiles should get treatment rather than be thrown in jail if they indicate to medical professionals that they have those…

You know the DSM-V has very specific guidelines on what a pedophile is right? They have to have this attraction for more than 6 months AND have it cause mental distress; or acted on this urge. So if you have this attraction for 5 months and 15 days and it doesn't bother you while you don't act on it, then you won't…