The US went from some 20,000 cases of polio annually to none in less than 30 years after the introduction of vaccinations. That's not attributable to changes in basic sanitation. So what's your next reason for not believing that vaccines are effective and useful?
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Miss Manners should be the only author available in the "Weddings/Etiquette" section of the bookstore, and should be required reading for prospective brides and grooms. Well, everyone, really, but especially brides and grooms.
Then you're probably not being interviewed by newspaper journalists.
Not so long ago, over at Tom & Lorenzo they were discussing some Hollywood article about stylists and the stars they work with. TLo commented that if stylists got too high-profile, fashion editors would react to preserve their status as the industry's arbiters. Looks like the smackdown is brewing.
It won't ruin the groom's honeymoon, so....
Leverage took on cheerleading in season 5: The Gimme a K Street Job. Those writers had spent a lot of time researching corporate scumbags, but the scumbaggery of the people who run cheer competitions really pissed them off.
People used to give Roger Ebert grief all the time because he'd give more stars to trivial little movies than big, "serious" movies. And he'd say, "It's not what the movie is about, it's how the movie is about what it's about."
"I just don't understand the complainers' thought process" — It's called analysis. Hmm, this thing bothers me. Why does it bother me when other similar things did not? How is this different from that? So this seems to be a pattern — what could be the cause. It's weird, I know, but some people just like thinking.
"I fucking WISH I could get sex whenever I want" — I suspect you could, if you didn't have any standards whatsoever, and were willing to risk your health and safety in order to get laid. It's a pity that rationality is so often rewarded with a lack of negative consequences instead of an actual positive consequence.
Or psychic. Many years ago, the tabloids (or at least The Enquirer) would publish psychic predictions for the coming year. I had a New Years tradition of going through the previous year's predictions and counting how many had a word or two in common with something that actually happened. I think the record was 4. …