Given (my Canadian impression of) American litigiousness, that’s entirely possible - in addition to the complete erosion of abortion rights and access, I bet that increases the risks exponentially, it wouldn’t be that easy for someone to get an abortion to avoid giving birth to a severely deformed child :/

I was on it in... 1997-ish? And I agree that the side effects are terrible, but still neither doctors nor the government should be forcing women into signing “pledges” to access appropriately prescribed medication - I also had my thyroid irradiated a couple of years ago and was told to avoid getting pregnant for a…

The focus on p-v sex is ridiculous as well, but as I noted in a few comments already, having been on Accutane as a 21 yr old uni student in Canada, I was informed, in detail, of *all* the potential side effects both to myself and to a potential fetus, and then my GP treated me like an adult and trusted me to make the…

Believe me, I totally get it, I responded in a couple of places (and to you I think as well, but comments aren’t showing up), but the iPledge is extremely problematic in terms of women’s autonomy and agency and a physician’s role in actual health *care* as opposed to draconian paternalism (health care should *not*…

The information you have provided is overall entirely accurate - the iPledge “promise” mandate is paternalistic horseshit however, because it assumes that women a) can’t make these determinations on their own without what amounts to medical blackmail, and b) that the morning after pill or abortion are not viable…

This seems very American to me. In Canada I was given Accutane as a 21 year old university student (aside: holy hell cystic acne hurts!!), the side effects as well as fetal effects were explained to me in detail, and I was sent on my way with my prescription, for Accutane only (with no paternalistic promisory arm…

Omigod I would have told that doctor to fuck off. If they were that concerned for the actual potential fetus that could have been affected by accutane, they could have simply recommended the pill or IUD if she were sexually active, or given her info on fetal abnormalities, or info on abortion, etc. Instead they went…

If your payments are reasonable and not subject to wild fluctuations, your income is steady and your job unlikely to be at risk...? I’d hang onto it. Part of the issue with bubbles is when everyone starts to panic and tries to buy/sell their way out and loses money and equity in one fell swoop. If you can sit tight…

ditto, that was a weeeeird mental image :)

I think paultoes’ comparison is a little fairer - I’d heard that Martin Short is a very nice, well-adjusted person in real life (as opposed to Jack Frost, Tim Allen or Joel Osteen).

ditto - smarmy and gross!

I first heard about this guy when I was visiting friends about 10 years ago and they had him on the tv on Sunday morning (in Canada... his reach is creepy). It... turned out I did not know these friends as well as I thought I did, I could NOT believe how enthused they were. Shudder.

Omifuckingawd fuck off both of you (not you Whitney).

I had pretty much the same reaction throughout the movie! I loved it (not in a gushing omigawd way), it was just so much fun, well-paced, well-balanced between action sequesnces and plain old-fashioned good storytelling. But every now and then I would be completely caught watching Gadot’s expressions, she really is…

That encapsulates it perfectly!

NO QUESTIONS about house hippos allowed, they’re totally a thing, I will not accept a world where they aren’t nesting in all my lost mittens...

To late to edit, but another commenter below provided a Guardian link that provides a less hyperbolic accounting. I retract “fucking asshole” and substitute “careless and clueless”...

Well this makes me double down on my defense of cyclists (at least those like myself who try to follow rules consistently, there are dangerous idiots out there...), and retract some of my comments on this guy :(

I’m on my bike (and I’m a lifelong cyclist, I have two bikes, I commute, I race, I leisure ride...), yelling at other cyclists all the time about idiotic and discourteous behaviour. Pedestrians are clueless (no the cycling lane is not a place for you to hang out!), but this guy is a fucking asshole (ETA: apparently…

This cyclist is clearly an asshole and a menace - he’s the kind who doesn’t stop at intersections and rides dangerously around cars and puts the rest of us at risk with his bullshit aggression and entitlement. Can you please ease up on the generalized disparagement though? It contributes to cyclists’ (and…