Sadly, medical education these days seems to place far more emphasis on memorizing things (disease symptoms, drug names, etc.) than on thinking critically and scientifically.

My husband’s cousin wanted to treat her father’s cancer with canned asparagus. O_O

I’d give you more stars if I could.

I moved from the Northwest to the Midwest 15 years ago and there is no teriyaki here. In fact, I’d be surprised if anyone here even knows what it is. I recently figured out how to make a decently similar dish at home, but it’s just not the same.

Exactly. The entire 19th century is one long story of people being killed because of things that were preventable with just a little bit of knowledge and planning but persisted because of capitalist greed and religious fear. The idea that anyone would want to take us back to that era is mind-boggling.

I doubt he even knows there are separate tribes.

I’m not that old but I’m obsessed with history. This has definitely happened before. Doesn’t mean we have any idea how it will turn out, though. Sometimes things have gotten better and sometimes they haven’t. Knowing that, the question becomes: what are we doing to try to make sure that things actually get better?

As the refugee of large extended family Thanksgivings in my childhood, I whole-heartedly agree with this. My husband’s family (who we always do Thanksgiving with since they’re not thousands of miles away) is small. We get together, eat some skin off the turkey, watch some football, chat, and my daughter and her only…

I once found myself playing Cards Against Humanity with several women, some cis and some trans. Suddenly it wasn’t so funny anymore.

I’m allowed to hate her because I live in Oklahoma so I know that her accent is totally fake. She doesn’t even represent real rural Oklahoma. Hers is basically the Duck Dynasty of food shows.

Same.

You might be surprised. My daughter’s best friend’s parents are typical Midwest Republicans; I just avoid talking politics with them as much as I can. But a particularly loud-mouthed liberal friend brought up the subject at my birthday party and before I could even cringe, they were talking about how much they…

I don’t think you’re crazy at all. Proof is a request to objectify the subjective, but in this kind of thing, where it ultimately doesn’t effect anyone else, the desire to do that strikes me as insecurity. Science doesn’t have to explain everything, and it can’t. Ghosts are something that some people, like you and I,…

I’ve had multiple experiences with ghosts (never actually seen one but heard and felt them). I’ve also had hallucinations. They were not the same thing.

These also fail to explain things like the house I lived in where I heard footsteps and my name when no one was around, woke up in the middle of the night with the…

I believe you and agree with you. I used to experience ghosts as a child and young adult. I don’t anymore because I’m generally too busy for them. I recently had a bad experience in a hotel that I barely talk to anyone about because so few people around me believe the same way I do. The surety that so many people have…

I was thinking the same, except replace Texas with Oklahoma.

I agree. I even did a huge chunk of the babysitting for my little brother when I was a teenager, and I still didn’t get it until I had my own.

I’m only sort of out, but I’m okay with wading into the ocean step by step. I would say that all of those things that felt like they happened because of your sexuality were actually because of people’s prejudices about your sexuality. That it is scary but it is worth it because you will find people who love you for…

My mostly-Scandinavian grandmother did this. We thought it was really morbid at the time, but now that I think about it (and am trying to help move another grandmother out of her house), it makes a lot of sense. She lived in that house for 50+ years so there was tons of clutter. For instance, I remember her cutting up…

Exactly. It’s really easy to say, “My understanding of X is blah blah blah. Is that your understanding too?”