Bingo. Thank you for that.

I'm a professor, and the mental health issues that I commonly encounter with students don't involve clear-cut diagnoses, they're situational. This, coupled with the fact that many of my students don't have health insurance, means that they end up waiting months to be evaluated by the university counseling center. De…

Judas priest, I'm sorry that happened to you. That was a douche move on your prof's part, they should never play something like that without some sort of prefacing/warning.

I heart this so frigging hard.

I heart this so frigging hard.

Eh, don't fret too hard about it:

I had a scare when I was in my late 20s, and got ultrasound and a bilateral mammogram, the results of which are that I apparently have fibrous breast tissue that form completely harmless lumps.

I dunno, a court in our fair state did just slap this motherfucker down, of which I heartily approve. I'll look at this glass as half full, just this once.

hearted so hard!

...so I suppose the moral of this story is to hit the bully in his kid-choking face instead of his junk.

*sigh* The fact that many people in the United States are Christian does not mean that the United States is a Christian country. Religious pluralism and and official separation of church and state in the highest legal document in our codified law means that even if every single citizen of the US converted to…

I got two words for you: peer review.

I cannot even begin to address some of the wackadoo "points" that you seem to think you're making. And claiming exhaustion as an excuse to not produce any actual evidence to back up your claims might work in whatever your job is, but it sure as hell doesn't cut it in mine.

Show me one scrap of evidence that the United States is a Christian country that doesn't involve your opinion. And that's not my point. The United States is an explicitly non-religious country, and that applies to all religions. I'm not going to back down from a fundamental American value just because a bunch of…

Well put. There is no need for that sort of ignorant, discriminatory bullshit in voicing concerns over this story. Recognizing that a clear violation of church and state is no bueno for anyone who enjoys living in a free democracy doesn't require anti-Semitism to back it up. If public funds are used to pay for that…

If it's alright with you, I'm gonna start using the word "militating" at every opportunity.

High-five!

It's a major concern to any American citizen such as myself that values the separation of Church and State. It's not a dick move. It's in the Constitution, and damn well had better stay there.

I actually love the exhibitionist aspects of Halloween; the US doesn't have enough Carnival-esque holidays, in my opinion. Granted, some of these costumes are just stupid (sexy Silence of the Lambs, for example), but I don't think of them as demeaning to women in and of themselves. I've loved wearing trashy-sexy…