Every time I drive over the section of I-5 that collapsed onto the Skagit River I check around me for trucks with oversized loads.

Are your objections based on the absolute value of the wage, or in comparison to what others are making? What kind of work would you consider worth $15 per hour?

The other one I get is that they just need to move up into management. Really? Setting aside that not everyone is well suited for management, if everyone goes into management, who the hell are they supposed to manage?

Basically.

I remember a Republican representative said that he supported a minimum wage hike because it would get people off of social programs that they currently to pay for food and housing. I wouldn’t mind my tax dollars going towards other things like repairing our nation’s failing infrastructure.

At this point I’m sure I sound like a broken record, but why are some people fighting so hard to prevent others from earning enough money to cover basic expenses and you know, live?

Some of the new cancer drugs actually turn cancer from an acute disease into a chronic one. Chronic myelogenous leukemia is nearly guaranteed to kill everyone within three to five years after diagnosis if left untreated. A follow up study of patients treated with Gleevec found more than 95% were still alive eight…

Get your drink and antibody responses on.

The more you think about it the more you realize not vaccinating kids for anything other than medical reasons is an utterly selfish decision.

It doesn’t have to be that bad. As a kid I was hospitalized separately for complications from rotavirus and chickenpox. In recovered completely both times, and the only reason I wasn’t vaccinated against them it because those vaccines weren’t available at the time. Given the way health care costs have increased,…

On a serious note, this is something that pisses me off to no end. I’ve lost many loved ones to cancer and other diseases and I now work in drug development. Whenever I hear someone say that we’ve got the cure for diseases like cancer, but Big Pharma is keeping it quiet to make more money, I have to really work to…

I am such a killjoy.

Sadly this is one of those situations where people can be incredibly stupid and there’s almost no way to hold them accountable for their actions.

This person lived in Sacramento. It comes as a surprise to most people, but a lot of California’s Central Valley is very conservative. And insane.

I think I’m happier not knowing those people.

I haven’t had the joy of encountering the last two, but someone shared a page encouraging people to refuse to even fill out the exemption form, claiming that it would assign your kid an ID number that the NSA could use to track them forever more, but would also open you to a lawsuit if your child spread a vaccine…

They’re probably the same people who scream body murder about using fetal cell lines in the rubella vaccine while conveniently ignoring the fact that rubella has killed more fetuses than vaccine development ever did.

She’s not being fooled, shilling for big Pharma is like a pyramid scheme. The more people you recruit the more rewards you get. At the upper levels there’s even a fancy booze and vaccine filled cruise.

Don’t forget about the people who get vaccinated and never produce antibodies.

Eloquent or not, that pretty much sums it up. And for the most part, if you ask nicely restaurants are willing to bend over backwards to accommodate you. It’s the rude jerks that get servers defensive.