Did you know North Korea is a republic instead of a dictatorship because their name is People's Republic of Korea? Its right in the name, dum dum!

No. Just no.

I had a (freshman) student who said that too. And I was like NO. NO NO NO. READ MEIN KAMF. IT'S VERY LONG SO LET ME SUM IT UP FOR YOU. HE SAID THAT TO GET THE WORKERS ON HIS SIDE. HE HATED COMMUNISTS. DID YOU SEE THE PART WHERE HE KILLED THEM ALL? I waved my arms a lot.

Ohhhh my God I quite literally had a film professor who said, "Everyone mistakenly believes that the Nazis were right-wing extremists, but they were actually left-wing extremists because they believed in big government and called themselves National Socialists."

Its strange how much this picture of nude WWII soldiers bathing together dove-tails perfectly into my life. I even posted it on facebook after I got invited to a pool party today.

Somebody reset the Gay Hitler counter.

With Chick-Fil-Et (or whatever) and Mozilla and now with Chilis - can we now begin to organize more fully around putting ethical pressures on corporations?

You know how sometimes mean kids in the lunch room will see cottage cheese or tuna fish in someone's lunch will make a whole show of saying, "ieeeew, how can you eat that?!" and then the recipient of the comment quietly puts away the food and spends the rest of the day in a stew of hunger and shame and never wants to…

...And I've never seen a vegetarian do any of those things, either. That's the whole point. Maybe you shouldn't believe every little story about vegetarians you read on reddit.

To be fair, can't that argument be leveled against anyone who refrains from anything for moral reasons?

Yes, and you will find several more studies that say the same, and several more that say the opposite. Nutrition science reporting is so fad-based.

No joke. I'm living in the Deep South now with my vegan partner, and I feel like it's our mission to prove that not all vegans are like Morrissey. But being a vegan diplomat gets exhausting in a place where crawfish and shrimp are considered vegetables.

I was going to go into the correlation/causation confusion, self-reporting, and selection bias, but I got distracted by the cross-sectional survey study and wild jump to an unsupported conclusion.

I cannot turn on the television, open a magazine, go online, or even drive down a road in my city without encountering meat culture. When I walk down the street, I smell cooking flesh, and I hear people say that it smells delicious. I see ads with people devouring blood-dripping flesh - and it's meant to be sexy. …

It seems more likely that people who suffer from disorders, chronic diseases, and anxiety/depression would be more likely to become vegetarians than the other way around. If you have health problems, you're probably going to be messing with your food intake, vitamins/minerals, exercise routine, etc. in order to see if…

Can we officially declare anti-vegetarians as more irritating then vegetarians already? I've witnessed vegetarians living up to the "smug, self-righteous" stereotype maybe once in my life. Yet hardly a week goes by where I don't witness meat-eaters making a bunch of shrill remarks about how insufferable vegetarians…

Grist had a good take on this by pointing out that the study divided meat-eaters into a group that also ate lots of fruits and vegetables, and a group that didn't, and it was the meat + veggies + fruit group that was healthier than the vegetarians. So, you might see a different trend if you split the vegetarians into…

Next time I click on Jezebel science analysis, I'll just cut the middle man and get straight to banging my head against a wall.

Eh. These are probably "vegetarians," meaning those people who were not raised vegetarian and therefore have no fucking clue how to cook vegetarian food. I could cite some anecdata wherein my Indian great-grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, grandfather's sisters lived well into their hundreds after eating a…