La Bamba.

I love that article. Perfect cautionary tale for the anti-vaxx crowd.

Yes! I had a similar reaction from my son’s pediatric nurse. I had to stop by the doctor’s office to pick up my son’s immunization card for something. The nurse actually brought it out, sat me down, and congratulated me for making sure he had all of his immunizations up to date. Thanks dude, but I just said yes each…

Right? See also: public assistance programs. (“I don’t want lazy people who don’t want to work taking MY hard earned money!!! It’s MINE!!!!)

Oh, the anti-vaxxer crowd seems to have that covered. If a child dies from a preventable illness, they can always claim the parents didn’t feed the kid enough fruits and vegetables/protein shakes/supplements made from ground yak horns. And if that child had been immunized - well, that’s clearly because vaccines are…

There is legal precedent for ‘wrongful life,’ but generally these cases involve plaintiffs were told after genetic testing that a fetus did not have a particular condition when it actually did.

Kitchenaid stand mixers are the shit. They last forever and mix/knead/whip everything perfectly. My mom had one while I was growing up and she still has that same damn perfect-working mixer (in full 70s harvest gold!). I asked her for one when I got married in 1997 and it still works like a charm.

I’ve never been able to master the art of texting and walking simultaneously. I’ve tried, and I automatically stand still. I hope this makes me a hair safer, although I’m sure I have 500 billion other bad habits that put me at risk.

So...Noah was a woman in her imaginary version of this book?

My brother had a Tonka SUV that fit Barbies perfectly. Fuck that pink convertible - my Barbies went off-roading in the rugged terrain that was my backyard.

Oh, ugh. :( Which IUD did you get?

Is it weird that I’m a tad jealous over how little she bled?

There’s also Lt. Hawk, who is a gay character in some of the novels. In Star Trek: First Contact Hawk was played by Neal McDonough, although his sexuality was never brought up in the film.

So kids got a mulligan when it came to pregnancy? Dayum.

And here I thought Breaking Bad was the best possible use of Jonathan Banks.

...you mean it isn’t a documentary? Huh.

Um. I guess kudos to him for mixing up the usual “uber-conservative blowhard dickwad politician gets caught with a male prostitute” scandal up a bit? An A for effort and creativity?

This Taco Bell is right by a Wal-Mart. Coincidence?

My mom used to work near this Taco Bell, and it’s the one closest to her house. She was telling me last night that she goes here whenever she has a taco craving.

I’m interested in politics. That said, I’m so so so so so so so so glad I no longer live in Iowa. Between the caucuses and its status as a swing state, the political ads and news never ends.