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Not to be too much of a buzzkill here, but isn't the CDC's job sorta kinda raising the alarm on health issues in the first place?

Not to belittle a serious article, but "main vein"? I hate being the default medical editor on the site (what am I saying, I'm in the grays and my comments are usually ignored by the writers) but "main vein" is slang for the penis, and that's the only way I've ever heard it used. There is a rather large vein in the…

Ha! My husband never fails to pick mine up — microphone style — and say, "Hey, good lookin'! We'll be back to pick you up later!"

Playing Devil's Advocate here, she may be less a licenced nurse, and more a trained home health aide who cannot replace that car if it's damaged and wouldn't get reimbursement for cabs.

Chicago is the worst fucking city for this dibs shit. There's great public transit...but it doesn't go everywhere, and this is a city where you can get hypothermia if you're out for more than 10 minutes in winter. Also the public transit is bursting at the seams at the moment. Too many people and not enough trains, so…

No, I'd imagine her wondering if they will do that what else will they do. She is a paid professional, not a saint.

I see where the nurse is coming from. It's a personal safety issue. One day it's vandalizing her car- it's rational to fear things could get worse.It may be an unwritten rule that you don't take a shoveled out space but it's the law that spaces on a public street is first come first served.

The nurse's job is stressful enough, keeping a kid well and presumably other folks too throughout the day/night. It's winter and crappy weather. She's probably not making as much as she could. Having garbage dumped all over your car for no reason would put plenty of folks over the edge.

Hi, I'm an Aussie from Melbourne- Australia's coffee capitol (and some say wanker Capitol)

I meant Michael J. Fox. Stupid tablet autocorrect. Ugh.

You don't sound like a conspiracy kook. You just sound like somebody who doesn't really understand what they're talking about. Thousands of Americans die of the flu every year. The reason to get the flu shot is that it significantly reduces the risk of healthy young to middle aged adults contracting the flu virus and…

"And I hold my ground when the average luddite sheep gives me grief."

I have to agree, this wasn't quite the grossest thing I've ever read or experienced, but then, I'm a nurse with great experience in Interventional Proctology. But as first efforts go, it's not bad. Here's a pro tip for all: don't dig in your pooper with your fingers on a daily basis. It leads to prolapse of the anus.…

That's impressively reasoned and mature. What are you doing on Gawker?

Yes, there is always the possibility that someone is lying. But when I say "context", I'm not talking about the actual moment of the rape itself. I'm talking about all the other evidence that might point toward whether a crime occurred (whether either party was intoxicated, whether they knew each other, whether people…

Um... well, yes they do. My dad has stories of people who tried to stage a robbery of their own property or set fire to their own house in order to collect on the insurance. So cops routinely look for signals or clues that suggest the person's story is fabricated. For example, someone saying they were robbed, but the…

The police routinely try to prove robberies didn't happen before they believe the shop owner? They try to investigate whether the mugging was real before taking to the streets to find the perp?

I agree. The current norm is that rape victims aren't believed to the degree they should be. But if we're going to get to a place where rape allegations are taken more seriously than they are now, the process shouldn't be to silence or ignore skepticism. You have to confront it, and neutralize it with factual and…

Yet it was the lack of any skepticism by the reporter in this story, in the name of protecting Jackie, which has now ruined her life (which Jackie seemed to have felt coming, given the news that she begged Erdeley to kill the story) and profoundly damaged the ability for future victims to be taken as seriously as they…