Antibiotics don’t kill viruses. Antivirals kill viruses. And yeah, there are some antiviral resistant strains of flu. And HIV is notorious for “escaping” from viral suppression, which is way HIV positive patients often need to change up their medication regimens.

Of all the weird shit in this article, I’m hung up the most on why someone would want to make Dominica into a white supremicist stronghold. Last I checked, banana farming isn’t really a great way to sustain an economy.

It’s not the soundest argument, I agree. OTOH, drafts are more likely to be driven 4 or 6 in hand which makes the potential for line-fouling disaster that much higher. It’s not that they aren’t used to having stuff under their tails, it’s that they can trap the rein and keep it there!

Thanks to the Font of All Horse Knowledge (and Ridiculous Arguments), a.k.a. the discussion forums at The Chronicle of the Horse, I learned something new about tail docking:

Speaking of societal pressure, here in the Netherlands Antilles (and I guess in Europe, too?) all the cigarettes are sold with warnings that take up half the packaging. SMOKING KILLS, SMOKING HARMS YOUR FETUS, etc... Doesn’t seem to stop anyone from lighting up, especially at the bars. Nicotine addiction is a…

This is a failure of classroom management, pure and simple. Don’t like students doing that? Tell them that. They are adults, they can deal. Personally, I’d pull a student aside and reprimand them in private - if they continue, by all means resort to classroom shaming. But good Lord, you don’t call the cops!

“First, do no harm.”

 He’ll probably “retire” and end up teaching at a Caribbean medical school.

Ha! I suppose she could have had resting bitch face, but her startled look, then her leaning across the table and speaking urgently to her husband, then glaring at us again was kind of obvious.

Believe me, I’ve had my share of “Oh, Americans!” glances my way when I’ve been out and about in foreign countries. This was WAY beyond that.

Hmm, tell that to the Italian lady who gave me and my husband the stink-eye all during dinner because we were chatting in English. She had no issues with choosing the table across from ours, until she realized we weren’t European. Mind you, this was at a cafe in Croatia - she wasn’t speaking Croatian either!

That is how they are trained to think. I got in a FB discussion with a friend of mine who is a sheriff’s deputy, and I wrote that when I got stopped for a traffic violation that even I, a white woman who was traveling with another white woman was terrified that I’d make a “wrong” move and be considered a threat by the…

Pretty sure that’s her definition of a false accusation (not resulting in a conviction). She’s not anyone I’d consider a friend - we have a friend in common but that’s all. But I do know she’s married to an abusive asshole and based on everything I’ve seen her post she is in that 53% of white women voting against…

Interestingly, a FB acquaintance of mine who is ALL over that actually posted this story as additional proof of false accusations ruining boys’ lives. She completely ignored the racial aspect of this (because she is an extremely Beckyish Becky), but hey, it’s something? Maybe?

These are good questions. No, we aren’t defenceless without vaccinations. We survived before them - we just lost a hell of a lot of people along the way. (See: latest Ebola outbreak). Also keep in mind that at least 45% of people hospitalized for flu complications last year were under 65 and otherwise healthy - some…

I hold a PhD in immunology. Trust me when I say that immunizations aren’t “supplementing” our “natural immune system”. (Does that mean you are arguing that there’s such a thing as “unnatural” immunity?)

White House/Black Market is a women’s clothing store similar to Ann Taylor or Banana Republic. (FTR, I love their pants) Michelle Obama got a lot of press for wearing some of their stuff (oh, the inhumanity of a First Lady wearing off-the-rack trendy professional clothing!) I think this was a “joke” more in line with t…

I watched this again a few years ago, fully prepared to hate on the “isn’t it so cute that a man can’t parent?” theme. And yeah, that’s definitely there, but I realized that the back half of the movie is really pretty progressive.

No seatbelts, nothing extra like side-curtain airbags, and a very long, not reinforced body that probably crumpled like an aluminum can on impact. It’s horrible.

Gah. At least three of those psycho hosebeasts smirking behind Trump look just like the wives of some of the players in my former beer hockey league. And these were the fine “ladies”  who would come and watch the games and shout insults at the women players. Most of them relating to us somehow all being lesbian, of…