What is so touching. She comes off as sanctimonious and hyperbolic. Lead a lawful life, sir??? Yeah that would really touch my heart if an old friend said that to me.

I hope people keep taking it down EVERY DAMN DAY.

“I did it for all the fierce black women on the front lines of the movement and for all the little black girls who are watching us. I did it because I am free.” There are moments when living right here and right now are transcendental. For all of the sorrows and sadness and the unfairness that formed the forge from…

“First I roll over on the bed I built for myself
and look at the ground. If there are clothes I wore from the previous day and they’re not too dirty, that’s what I put on.”

This article is phenomenal!! I think one interesting thing about Poussey and Taystee’s friendship is how it shows the ways race trumps class in the prison hierarchy. Class is still extremely relevant - it causes the rift in Taystee and Poussey’s friendship - but in prison racial signifiers become class signifiers. In…

He and Jennifer Lawrence are tied for “Closest that a human can get to being a puppy while still retaining extremely attractive human form.”

I had one of the princess Di beanie babies when I was a kid. Lord only knows where it is now.

They don’t know what to do with their homo-erotic urges upon meeting, and since they can’t articulate their feelings, they break shit.

Yet another reason why you're so fucking awesome - you took the time out of your actual life to be gracious on the interwebs.

Nope - my tone definitely did not come across as appropriate or as I intended at all and lord knows I’ve encountered the kind of assholes that say “blah blah blah you can’t read studies.”

Turns out this became quite a politically charged issue 10 years ago. Hence the change in nomenclature - turns out you’re right at the consensus was delusional parasitosis, then political pressure lead to the CDC study and nomenclature change.

Right - they couldn’t find anything. Yes, most signs are consistent with delusion dermatitis. But researchers have not gone so far as to equate the two, or diagnose it as a subtype. As I’m sure your aware, delusional and somatoform disorders are diagnoses of exclusion. So infectious agent or vector has been ruled out,…

There’s certainly no debate in the medical field about this. The CDC actually commissioned a fairly comprehensive study on the phenomenon, and they could not find any virus, bacterium, fungi, or any other foreign pathogen behind the alleged symptoms. However, most signs do in fact point to delusional behavior on the…

Agreed.

Oh yeah, of course. In all likelihood the pain stems from something psychological rather than a physical phenomenon... once one person comes up with a possible theory, confirmation bias takes over and you wind up with a UFO effect, where once one person sees something, everyone starts seeing it as well. What were once…

Why do these sufferers insist on thinking that the disease is biological and not mental? We have a long way to go towards accepting that mental illness is illness, don’t we?

They love traditional hetero marriage. They think that the breakdown of the family is responsible for most of society’s ills. But they also hate that this couple decided to stay married to each other despite their problems.

“I have to tell ya–eight years of one demographically symbolic president is enough”

Anyone else remember when the right wing used to at least pretend not to be chiefly driven by bigotry?

I want to gently caress those shoes and tell them how pretty they are.