The Mooch Era was too short. Not a popular opinion probably, but that shit was hilarious. I mean, obviously all norms of everything are broken but that ship has sailed, continues to sail, maybe toward NK, maybe closer to Australia, but we would know about it because of whatever drug-fueled rant Mooch would phone a…

Awww, you’re sweet.

No, but I want one!

Seems like fair game then, as far as Sessions sees the world.

On the other hand, I don’t watch the basketball so please forgive the presumption, but the Lakers are largely men of color, right?

Are you implying the free market is not a replacement for a system of ethics or morality???

I mean, you can. Good function makes your skin look much better than it does with jaundice.

Bathroom usage was one of the first things he did in office... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/devos-sessions-transgender-students-rights.html

We need a recurring ‘Deffo Not a Dick’ column.

I’ve started responding to every DNC and DCCC fundraising email I get - with a message that I will not be supporting them until they stop supporting anti-choice candidates. I’m sure they just delete them, but they don’t bounce back, so they’re going somewhere. It’s been kind of satisfying.

So much of the conversation around this became a contest of who suffers most and not ABC using allegations of sexual assault as a marketing strategy. I feel awful for both of them - being told there’s video of you being sexually assaulted or sexually assaulting someone during a party you can’t recall has got to be…

It’s a good visual of the volume of medication per capita in comparison to the OD rate. I think I just found ‘kg per 10,000’ to be kind of an odd stat in isolation from number of prescriptions. There are some comparisons where number of prescriptions per capita vary widely across states that are frequently meant to…

Given the track record of the Senate on both ethics and science, I’m very wary of attempts to circumvent the FDA. The history of this is one I find really fascinating, beginning with Act Up demanding access to HIV antiretroviral medications in the 80s. It’s always been a power struggle to some degree - it wasn’t good…

I agree. And while kids can distinguish make-believe from fact - it is to an extent. Child abusers frequently play on how vulnerable kids are to suggestion and how little skepticism with which they treat what they’re told. It’s why little kids usually don’t understand sarcasm without contextual clues.

I want to be a part of the party that protects the marginalized. There’s no group of discriminated against people who can be fed to the wolves to further the rights of others without the rights of everyone being in danger. I’d rather lose while standing for something good.

All of those things would still apply to Comey, as far as anything he knows from his time in the FBI - that’s my understanding at least.

Thank you for this. It’s an incredibly tough ethical issue and the legislation makes it sound so simple: why not give sick people drugs that could help? The notion of any kind of autonomy of informed consent in this situation is difficult for people who understood the biomedical background before they had a serious…

That’s always the case with pay inequality - women just aren’t worth as much as men. And then they get really bitchy when you tell them that.

Absolutely. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, although I see how it could be read that way. That a grand jury was convened is already a huge win - that was the point that I missed making.

You couldn’t use any of this data. It’s a really complex issue and the movement to release experimental drugs has an interesting history. But there’s really no easy answer.