Good for her? This is a very young woman who is making a (for her) huge change because she believes in something. Why would we belittle that?

Death dolls and other momento mori are not uncommon artifact. They exist in multiple cultures world wide. It’s only in the weirdly puritanical modern western culture where death and mortality in general is considered such a taboo topic that people find such things “creepy”. People die. remembering the dead through…

at this point isn’t America’s collective refusal to learn science the biggest public health issue?

This obsession over eating correctly is hilarious to me. FFS, humans spent most of their evolutionary time eating bone marrow out of carrion and most of their historical time starving to death and doing hard labor. Humanity managed to carry on. So I’m guessing that, as a species, we’re probably realllllly not that…

Eating cereal is the same level of public health issue as smoking?

Yup. And there’s the whole crew of “you haven’t gained enough, your baby is going to be too small and jaundiced and wrinkled, blah. Here let me show you Ph.D. I got from WebMD and internet forums.”

I’m a man but I can guarantee that Cap’n Crunch and Fruity Pebbles is one of the best things you can put in your body, ever.