In Appalachia once for a service project, my group was painting trailers. We went to clean off the roof of one man’s living room - it was black with what we thought was grime. It was cockroaches. Wall to wall.

Yup, the NHS inoculation programmes had almost eradicated TB in the UK by the 80s, it’s considered that the only reason we haven’t acheived complete freedom from TB is because of travel to and from countries that haven’t got a hold of the problem. Luckily Americans haven’t been blamed for bringing their pestilece with…

We have pockets of TB here in California and it’s becoming resistant. There aren’t enough airborne iso rooms in our hospitals. We need to start vaccinating.

I watched a documentary on MDR-TB in southern Africa and it was fucking terrifying. The side effects of the medication are so extreme that it’s almost impossible to stick to your regime for the correct amount of time. THIS is the shit people need to be talking about. Fuck off with your gluten. Gluten is never going to…

It's infuriating how we have this dissonance— there is a couple I know asking people to contribute to their GoFundMe to do medical missionary work in Africa. Which is great and all, except there isn't any enthusiasm to help people on our own street who can't afford health care.

People truly do not comprehend how poor much of the rural South is. You’ll be driving along, pass a stand of rusted-out trailers, think, “Surely nobody lives in that,” and then you’ll get far enough to see the clothesline, or someone will open the front door.

part of what freaks me out about this story (and did when i was dealing with TB treatment myself) is that it’s so hard to treat active TB correctly even for a diligent person in comfortable circumstances — i had to take four medications every day for like nine months, couldn’t drink, had to go for tests all the time,…

Like Trevor Noah satire’d last week: it’s time to run commercials in various African countries asking that they give money to children in American cities have: clean drinking water (Flint - arrest the Gov).

Her cleavage looks like she has implants that have become encapsulated and are rippling, particularly on the right.

Year after year, event after event, she is flawless.

Kate Beckinsale

I first heard Tig’s routine about her diagnosis when someone sent it to me and all I could think bitterly was “Oh, great, just what I need.” I was flat on my back, 5 months into chemo at 33 for breast cancer. I was so goddamn sick of cancer and I wanted nothing to do with still more cancer.

I just finished Season 1 last night. So, so, SO GOOD. Ritter and Tennant were just phenomenal.

I know, I remember someone somewhere saying that she’d married up and another person responded, “he married an internationally renowned human rights lawyer, he’s the one who married up.” Still true.

Amal has more class in her pinkie finger than the entire group of republican nominees combined. I just want to sit somewhere with her and have a glass of wine

My heart breaks for Iman (this photo also from their wedding day), that she might have any exposure to this awful woman saying anything and everything to gain attention in the wake of his death. It’s really despicable.

I’ve never been to a baby shower that centered so heavily on how the baby was MADE rather than celebrating the goddamn people who bringing the baby into the world. It’s weird.

Re: Terry’s baby shower- That shit is disgusting. I’d like to think I’m sex positive, but come the fuck on (zero puns intended!!!!!). Yeah, let’s talk about sex and shit, but can we separate that discussion from celebrating the imminent arrival of children? I’m not a huge fan of conventional baby showers myself. I…

Sooooo, kind of like My Name is Earl? But without Jason Lee.

Maybe or maybe she is just that dickmatized. That photo made me roll my eyes so hard that I’m surprised they didn’t come out of my head.