Also, vaccines are not a “false” sense of security, they are an “actual fucking sense of security because they fucking work.”

Pay as you throw never works, anywhere. All it means is early mornings, people swing by their nearest creek and sling their waste down it. Subsidized no-questions-asked and actual paid-to-dump, they work far better. Not perfect because there is always someone who just wants to crap up their creeks, but far better…

Hah...you say this:

Every time someone brings up vaccinations, it should go HAND IN HAND with drunk driving laws. We’re not worried about you deciding to fuck up and fuck yourself over. We’re worried about you deciding to fuck up and causing OTHER PEOPLE harm in doing so.

I think it probably has to do with the perverse incentives that have developed as the imaginary poverty brought on by income inequality has hamstrung state and local governments. I mean, municipalities didn’t used to depend on the income from seizures of assets to make ends meet. States didn’t used to depend upon…

Sen. @RandPaul on vaccines: “I still do not favor giving up on liberty for a false sense of security.”

It’s weird, because his neighbor gave him a big dose of personal freedom and he didn’t seem all that in to it.

Someone should really tell him that Franklin was literally, explicitly arguing in court for the right of the government to tax their citizens and the duty of the citizens to pay those taxes - and excoriating rich people for trying to fucking dodge their tax bill.

More importantly Rand Paul, an actual medical doctor, does not understand herd immunity.  Vaccinating your kids is great.  Letting everyone else skip it is a terrible idea as the current measles outbreak shows.

And Rand Paul demonstrates that he—like so goddamned many others—is capable of completely misinterpreting the point of Franklin’s oft-quoted (and oft-misused) aphorism concerning the relationship of liberty to security (or the appearance thereof).

We know vaccines work. Choosing to not vaccinate a child because of a(n…

You have thirty seconds to comply.

Most of us think of recycling as a service our city provides, but in reality it’s a business.

This is bull shit.

Conservo-fascists are the real fifth column and America is doomed if we can’t root out and destroy their insane creed.

Don’t have your kids watch this, which presents demonstrably false skeptical views as co-equal with the actual science. Journalism 101: if one person says it’s raining and the other says it’s dry, you don’t present both sides and throw up your hands, you open the window and see which is true.

Yeah, gotta agree with the folks in NY who reacted by saying the kid needs counseling and education, not incarceration.

There should be no tolerance for hatred or bigotry, whether it’s anti-Semitic, homophobic, racist, or what have you—but arresting and formally charging a twelve year old kid for scrawling awful shit…

For what it’s worth, people who use the term “white guilt” are racists who want to drag white people who feel a responsibility to understand their own privilege and the context for its existence.

Pictures of these people should be posted at every opportunity. If they can buy their way out of being prosecuted for murder, it is up to the friends and families of their victims to make sure they get the proper social greeting whenever they dare show their faces in public.

You’re not wrong. I didn’t really start to learn the horrifying details of what we did to the Native Americans until I was in undergrad.

I mean, I can kind of understand why a K-12 institution wouldn’t want to tell a bunch of kindergarten kids “By the way, children--did you know that we systematically slaughtered…

“White supremacists are American citizens. The illegal immigrants are people who shouldn’t be here.”

I will not presume to speak for our Native American citizens, but if I were Native (and I am not), I’d be so goddamned hacked off at this statement that I’d probably spit fire. Every single time some dipshit howls about…