It's totally soapy, but it's heavy on the murder and extortion, and pretty light on the blurry-lens romantics. I can appreciate both elements, but there's something refreshing about the ridiculous social politics and body count.

I just looked up when girl scout cookie sales start in my area.

Dying in childbirth must just be God's Divorce. Classy!

Drafting myself to Team "Make a Different But Still Hilarious and Awesome Movie."

Yes! I was about to propose Janice Dickinson as a cautionary tale, but fine. Be that way, Cindy Crawford.

It might be years before I'm able to actually watch Prometheus, since my brain has been conditioned to fear and loathe prequels. Will I ever be able to trust again?

I owe you a debt of gratitude for inspiring me to look up the GoT one. Hee.

That's interesting! I hadn't even really thought about the rabies vaccine for humans. I guess the plus side of that one is that it can be administered after exposure, so the risk of paralysis or blindness seems somewhat less horrifying than dying of rabies.

Ooh, that's interesting. Thanks for that info.

I do know about the Tuskegee experiment, but it wasn't about vaccines. They were exploring the natural history of syphilis, which meant that they were just recruiting people who already had it without explaining their condition, treating those who were treatable, or informing their families or sexual partners... which…

That slogan is a winner. Someone make it happen. I gotta go vomit though.

No, you're right. The ad itself is pretty off-putting. I was just noticing that it's one of a few times that women menstruating is mentioned at all without a resounding "GROSS" or some blue-water-in-a-cup euphemism (confused me for years). It's not a great thing at all that it replaced it with an "ew,…

I've witnessed this phenomenon a few times. It is amazing in its predictability.

What you said! It's not that all guys are like that, but if you're picking them at random, the safe bet is that he'll be visibly squeamish or worse.

I would probably feel worse about this if it weren't the norm for many heterosexual men to act like menstruating women are "EW OMG GROSS," even though that's a really standard feature of being biologically female.

Oh man, don't I know it. To never have a UTI again would be The Greatest Gift.

I was taking possibly the longest piss of my life in a bar bathroom at midnight. I am going to interpret this as a sign of impeccable bladder health in 2012.

Wow. They didn't even tell her what was wrong with her? And then she got a secret brain swirl? Eff you, 1950s.

I feel like Sandusky and friends are actually doing everyone a public service. Apparently anyone who voluntarily comes within 50 yards of them reveals him or herself as a raging asshole contributing to the active destruction of all that is good in society. So... that's good.

I can't personally and never implied that I could, but that's the perception for a lot of people, and seems to be a pretty major influence for people who really want to do home births. Enough so that there's a documentary about it, a couple of lectures on midwifery that I've attended, and a conversation with a doula.…