If only there were a less onerous, more direct way to get addicts to use condoms.

This is a slightly ridiculous comment given that prescription-drug users are exempt from this law. This is the crack baby scare all over again, and you're acting like the problem with this has to do with your mental health and relationship with your doctor!

This is so obviously "crack babies" all over again.* And yet, people are falling all over themselves to explain why it's not. Apparently the targeted drug is amphetamines. So now it's "meth babies." But go on and enjoy your Adderall, folks.

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Methamphetamine is prescribed to treat ADHD in the form of a patch — it's called Desoxyn. My ADHD diagnosis cost about $2k - they were very thorough, so you can be assured it was legit. /saracsm

Former adderall user here. It's absurd the number of people on this board who insist that being legitimately diagnosed with ADHD inoculates you from the physical side effects of taking amphetamines. Yeah, I took that damn computer test too. It doesn't make a desoxyn patch not meth.

Well, as a white girl I'm going to avoid calling prominent POC women racist - heh...talk about toeing-the-line — but she IS the worst. (Although Babs had her moments). Even the much-maligned Sherri Shepard came from a place of kindness and exploration. But you nailed it there with Whoopi, she just wants to get paid…

See also, racism.

Not to be completely dark, but my answer to that question usually makes people pretty uncomfortable. Are people really so unaware that unwanted children can have very sad, lonely childhoods? Is the bootstrap ideology so secure that the chance of existing is the best we can hope for — it's our problem after that?

I find the Five slightly fascinating too. I think Perino is there because that crazy one just says the craziest, most offensive stuff you can hear on tv, and then she'll do some mental gymnastics to try to make a conservative viewpoint sound slightly less nutty and stupid. It took me forever to figure out the…

The fact that every comment isn't this comment makes me wonder if we saw a different version of this story.

I'm on my second week in. Honestly it's okay so far because my firm is much, much better than the shitty firms I've worked at, so the case is pretty interesting. But of course I'd be doing public interest if I could. The work is pretty absurd though. I've never been so bored in my life. How long have you been doing…

Well. I do this with legal documents all day long — I think I'd rather do it with tv. Can I listen to podcasts while I do it? Is there free coffee?

No.

At least awful is mildly, mildly interesting?

I switched from vegan to pescetarian when I moved to a place that culturally eats a lot of fish and some seafood. It would have been pretty easy to be a vegetarian here too, but my partner's family is Alaska native and full of commercial fishermen/women and food is a good way to relate. I think a lot of people assume…

Hell, I had a good job and looked forward to my coworkers' white board notes.

Yes, bad after the scroll-down.

Mr. Awesome or whatever? I dated a guy like that once and I wasn't interested in him and it blew my goddamn mind. I actually called him "Awesome" in my mind because it was so absurd. This isn't really an interesting story, just more that the exception proves your point.

The Madden brothers are going to be my go-to example the next time I'm dumb enough to engage a troll whining about how loserly-seeming menz can never get status women or whatever. Although that will probably lead to an explanation of why Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz aren't even that great.