That is the thing about a health screening. Everyone it catches does not necessarily have the disease in question. But it’s one of those civil society things. Society depends on the innate decency of humans to tell the truth, then those honest humans suffer personal inconvenience for the greater good. Without that?…

As someone who is immunocompromised, may I just say: I hope she gets an infected ingrown taint hair that doesn’t heal right for at least a month. 

All those unfortunate richies... it’s like Prospero’s masque all over again. They couldn’t even hide from the plague in their fancy French restaurant.

I may be screaming into the void here but I need to let this out.

I can’t with this woman.

The wild thing is that Paltrow is really having it both ways right now: here she is hosting an infomercial for her top-dollar snake oil (she knows it’s all a grift; she’s even joked about some of the ludicrous junk she sells); meanwhile, she just played a character that spoofs the vapid bourgeois types who are Goop’s c…

Watching it, even just to laugh at it, signals to Netflix that they should do more. They don’t care, and neither does Gwenyth Paltrow, that you’re only watching as a joke, eyeballs = $$$.

. . . a docuseries of sorts where employees are thrown into Goop-y experiences, like well-groomed lab rats in luxury cashmere.

The best message we can give to Netflix is not to watch this dangerous anti-science woo-woo BS, and rate it thumbs down.

Thanks for reminding me to put that on my to do list when I get home. 

Snake oil has been sold for a loooooooong time and smart people know that a sucker is born every minute as well as a fool is easily parted from their money. Paltrow is a wonderful grifter in a land where grift has unexpectedly become president king dictator.

Don’t pay money for plants. Ask your friends with plants if you can have cuttings and shoots, plant seeds or if you you’re ok with that, pilfer cuttings. Plants you buy 1) are needlessly expensive, 2) often carry diseases and will die soon after you bring them home. Besides, it’s nice to watch a cutting develop tiny…

On top of my sympathy for her and her circle of loved ones, I’m sad we will be denied an even more curmudgeonly, scabrous 95-year-old Wurtzel pissing us off from the comfort of a rest home.

I was diagnosed with mets dec 31st last week, after eight years cancer free. I know I should feel sorry for her, but I’m just scared for myself

The expression on his face reminds me of when I had a shoulder injury and people kept trying to side hug me or slap me on the back. I wonder if maybe he was in pain and it caused a bit of an over reaction. I had to tell one friend that I was going to punch him in the nuts the next time he grabbed my arm. Can you…

As I sit here writing this my 96 yo gm with dementia is laying in bed muttering to herself and I am feeling like this is a pretty good day..I havent had to clean up any poop yet. She has picked her nose until it started to bleed but ..meh..easy peasy. I cant leave the house unless someone comes to relieve me, I have…

My Mom has had a brain injury for 20 years and my husband has lung cancer that has spread to his brain in the last 4 years. I’ve been caring for people with dementia for most of my adult life and I myself have breast cancer.

I fall on the side of this not being a “great” way to handle cognitive decline but that I understand how one could come to the wrong conclusion to commit murder then suicide.

“people with little to no experience with the dementia population”  In my experience, people with no experience tend to feel quite the opposite. People who don’t know about dementia tend to think of it as early stages when a person is just confused about who is who and what day it is and keep having the same…

I scanned the replies and think this is actually a new albeit unsolicited thought for you. My partner was a pack a day guy for almost 10 years. I warned him that we wouldn’t be moving in together unless he kicked the habit. Don’t enjoy ultimatums, but this was a health-related boundary for me; secondhand/thirdhand…

I quit smoking, but the catalyst was to quit drinking by myself (great choice for me) as a New Year’s resolution. Smoking lost something from that, and then I decided I would switch to a vape because I thought it would allow me to be more physically active. The vape was good for a while, except for when I went out to…