Im 33 and had a mammogram last week where they found calcification clusters so they’re like “you need a biopsy.” (They say chances of cancer are very low but obviously checking is ideal). My doctor was like “you’re very young but this lump is odd.” Imagine if she followed that up with “but you’re not 40 yet…

Woods began his press conference by saying “Earlier today we had a police-involved shooting,” and I’m going to stop right there and point out that this particular phrase—along with its cousin, “officer-involved shooting”—needs to disappear. It’s such a passive (aggressive) way to say the cops shot someone when the…

It would be an incredible stretch and require the very kind of distortion that GOP politicians are creating. I think the judge’s warning was broader than her exact words - politicians do need to be careful about what public remarks they make during high profile and politicised trials, because it can potentially be…

I wouldn’t be *shocked* if that formed the basis for overturning a guilty verdict, because he’s a cop and courts and judges go out of their way to protect cops. But it’s difficult to see how there would be any real basis to overturn a guilty verdict on that basis—it’s difficult to see how a court would be willing to…

Former prosecutor weighing in. While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that she “gifted” the defense with an appealable issue, there is certainly some merit to the claim. Even if an appellate court says otherwise, it has cast an unnecessary shadow over the proceedings and will be a constant talking point for Republicans…

It’s very doubtful this would cause a mistrial or a successful post conviction appeal. The key here is that she is a CA congresswoman expressing a nationwide common view. If she were a local or state politician and she said that there will be violence directly against the jurirs maybe there would be a chance of there…

I am also confused by this. Why would she choose to speak in these terms before the verdict was returned. I know there is a lot of political theatre going on here but this doesn’t seem like a smart play.

My understanding is that women under 50 have breast tissue that is too dense for mammograms to be useful. So its not about at which age women get breast cancer; its about at which age mammograms become useful tools. Women who get breast cancer before age 50 discover it other ways, even if they are getting routine mammo…

I was diagnosed with stage 1A breast cancer at age 43. It was caught during an annual mammogram. It could not be felt during a manual exam and I had no symptoms. I had rather large, dense breasts, so I do not know how long it would have grown in my unchecked if I did not have a mammogram. Because it was caught early,…

As someone who lives in Virginia, I would say VA. There is a ton to do here and a lot of history to see (Jamestown/Williamsburg/Busch Gardens, Presidential birthplaces/homes, national parks and forests). Beaches in the east and mountains in the west. We have all 4 seasons if you are into that sort of thing. The…

Virginia. You have a lot of options of things to do and places to go. And it’s now a Democratic state. That’s a general overview though. I can be more specific if I may ask, what’s prompting your choices?

There’s about a 10-15 year age gap between the average writer and the average reader on this site. The writers want to write about what they care about, understandably, but it’s not what is interesting to the people currently reading the site.

Yesterday I paid off my student loans, 5 years ahead of schedule. I’ve been making triple payments for the last 16 months.

One of these things is not like the others:

my 21 y/o son has special needs; his best friend has down syndrome. My partner is a significant special needs educator - if you have a kid with an IEP, you could only hope to have an advocate who cares as much as she does. Everyone in my family cares deeply about people with special needs, and the issues that…

I think they’re conflating a couple separate things - someone being closeted, or not having figured out their own deal is one, totally understandable thing.   Someone being shitty to their partner because they’re going through something themselves is another, less excusable thing, and one that happens all the time…

It’s fine if you don’t like my comment - I don’t have to like what someone says in order to have a respectful exchange. But in case it wasn’t clear in my first comment, I totally agree with you that the American healthcare system is fucked up. I’m not even American, I just live here, and after spending most of my…

so I assume all the dudes and right-to-lifers who made this legislation happen are busily working on establishing a comprehensive tax-covered support network that any parent of a child born with Downs Syndrome can access for the lifetime of help they’ll probably need? LOL just kidding, I know that’s not happening,…

That sounds likely. He was a mental mess because he had a girlfriend who he probably cared about, but didn’t want to get serious with because he was into dudes. Sending an angry letter about her treatment during that time seems pointless at best and mean at worst. If she really needs to get it out, write the letter…

Noone should be forced to carry a child, for any reason. Abortions should be no questions asked. This is a horrible precedent, and proof of the old adage that hard cases make for bad laws.