If there's a silver lining to all this ugliness, it's that there's a discussion taking place about consent in Canada, or at least it seems so in my circle, among those who I can't imagine having that conversation otherwise. My dad of all people said last night to me, "people who are kinky must be angry to have their,…

She shouldn't have to die on November 1st to prove a point. The important thing is that she has the choice.

I've spent the majority of my afternoon taking people to task who have said this was an attention ploy of "all she wanted was fame". This is a serious matter that she has helped bring to the public. In four states people have the right to determine with their doctor when they can die. Medical autonomy is an area that…

Exactly. It's her choice, still. And that was the point all along.

"My dream is that every terminally ill American has access to the choice to die on their own terms with dignity."

You know what? I ain't even mad, unlike some of the people on my Facebook.

Women's workplace dress code is such bullshit. I kept sneakers in my desk in case of an emergency. And a first aid kit. And a flashlight.

Yes, this is the place where you can complain about that. I like a 2-inch heel—nothing more. It's really had to find! Also, there doesn't seem to be any recognition by shoemakers that a 3-inch heel on a size 6 foot results in a steeper slant than a 3-inch heel on a larger foot.

I told this story once under another name (in a galaxy far, far away).

I feel so badly for those men that think that they have so little self-control, are so un-intelligent and animalistic, that they are only capable of seeing a woman's body and "reacting to it." They have no self-control. They just simply cannot help it.

She lives in Fort Kent, a small town of less than 5,000 people on the border with Canada. What are we afraid is going to happen, exactly? That she infects a Canadian and they make us look bad with a prepared, reasonable and rational response?

Ugh, my uncle has been posting on FB about how Kaci "needs to be bitch-slapped" because why can't she just shut herself in for three weeks to make us all feel better, GAWD.

I think what's reasonable is asking people to follow a protocol developed by the organization that's been on the front lines of this problem since it started, not protocols developed by people who are being scared by speculation, their own or that of others. This virus has been around for decades. We know how it…

Comparatively few returning health care workers have become infected. Among the hundreds of MSF staff, there have been just over a dozen cases of Ebola, and most were caught while the person was still in Africa. The worst problem with infected health care workers was within the US itself, the two nurses in Texas who…

I was, weirdly enough, recently briefed by a doc coming back from the hot zone. They usually check temperature twice a day. It generally takes a few days after a fever to begin spewing bodily fluids, and apparently a person becomes more contagious as the illness progresses and as the symptoms peak. Human remains are…

You can see why quarantine should be a standard of care from a place of ignorance of how the disease develops. I don't how how fast the disease develops either once symptoms start to show either, but that's why neither of us should be making public health policy and why our trust or distrust of self-reporting is…

In what way? People keep insisting Spencer was irresponsible, but there's no evidence that he spread the disease to anyone, and it seems extremely unlikely that he would have.

100%. The solution is for mutual respect to come forth. How hard is it to educate and then leave them with, "We ask that you please try to minimize your time in public during the next three weeks, however we realize that life goes on. The most important thing is to remain at home and call emergency services if you…

Good for her. The 4th Amendment doesn't cease to exist because people are scared.

Only a couple times in my life have I asked a woman who was otherwise a stranger for her number. My romantic/sexual encounters have exclusively come through meeting a friend of a friend, and something developing from there.