Well...someone, it sounds like, essentially dropped her off at the front of an airport for a Skycap and kept on rolling themselves. They may not have been real attentive about her.

Did you read the explanations above about what, why and how? Your comment indicates you didn't.

Also make sure you know how the enrollment rules work for different departments and classes. I've taught a small writing course for years now and the department made a rule that all of the enrollment happens automatically based on the online system. Once the class is full, the only way to get in is to be on the wait…

It's not exactly Virginia's appeal. The AG and Gov aren't defending the law that prevents same sex marriage and they're arguing in favor of allowing same sex marriage. A clerk of one courthouse in one jurisdiction in the commonwealth appealed.

Leaving aside the problematic language there, and even if it's true, that doesn't mean the current policy is good or helpful.

I posted this elsewhere on this comments thread in response to someone else, but had really been reading about risk and about how this policy plays out. Here's a paper which compares the relative risk of reducing the lifetime deferral to a 1 or 5 year deferral with already accepted risks involved in donation: http://w…

The issue is not whether gay men have higher risk for certain infections the issue is whether the FDA lifetime ban policy helps people by keeping them safer. Given that, in the case of organ and blood donation, many of the people who do not get them will die policies that significantly reduce the numbers of organs and…

While it is true that blood is discarded every day it's not true that blood is in good supply. There are often shortages of particular types and of platelets. In fact, we're currently facing a shortage as noted in this piece which also discusses the ethics around the FDA policy referenced in the article here. http://…

I'm not entirely clear what you mean about "the more formal definition of risk" (and again, I mean that literally, not in any snarky way). And nothing about HIV being less communicable in gay blood....just that blood donation is also affected by this notion and a lot of potential blood donors (who are men who have sex…

I am truly not being snarky....but there's nothing about organ/tissue/blood donation on that entire linked page. I am completely open to having my mind changed on this, but I still haven't seen any study showing the risk.

With organs there's something called the "socially high risk" category. People who are going through the process to be listed can decide what they're willing to accept. (This varies state to state and center to center as each center sets their own informed consent process.) When I was going through the process I…

Could you link to studies showing that it cuts the risk that much?

Yes. Yes they can. And yes, yes they are denying life changing and life saving (blood donations) procedures every fucking day. It's galling. (I had a bi-lateral lung transplant coming up on 5 years ago....this is very important to me.)

When you deprive people of basic, normal, medical care you endanger their lives. That's how it works. The people passing these laws either don't care or are happy with that fact.

The NFL portrays them as noble warriors, valiantly.....and on and on and on. It's the same bullshit spun slightly differently.

Ah...neither. There was some dipshit who commented earlier and it appears to have been deleted. I don't recall quite what the person wrote, but it was trolling...something about her arms being chubby or some other nonsense.

Caution, troll at work up there.

While I also agree that those are issues and I generally don't like doing the one-ups thing on what the larger problems are....my biggest issue with all of this is that he has a platform on television as an expert in medicine, health, food, fitness and so on. He's not qualified and he's an asshole. But still,…

My wife makes a killer salmon cakes and cabbage noodles. Salmon cakes are canned salmon, shallot, mustard, an egg yolk, crushed cracker crumbs, salt and pepper....pan sauté. Cabbage noodles are butter, shredded cabbage, lots of pepper and some salt and when it's sautéed a bit, add cooked egg noodles or linguine as…

Oh hell, that sounds fantastic.