He didn’t want to got jail because he feared losing his job. That’s some responsible shit right there.

New show on TLC! “Say Yes to the Duress!”

Traditional marriage is between one defendant and one innocent bystander.

What’s this about the sanctity of marriage?

Of course there is a Comic Sans one.

Who knew the internet had such a thriving dingus population?

How are this many people so new to the internet? And how did they end up on Kitchenette as their Orientation Day site?!

I work as an OT in a physical rehab facility for the elderly and medically complex. Polio is a bitch, man. Sure you can survive it... Just to get post-polio syndrome in adulthood. I’ve seen it twice in my short career and the (English) research on it is scant, at times contradictory and basically shrug emoticon…

Hmm, interesting. Luckily, I’ve been very healthy since then, but adult measles certainly wasn’t a joke back then. I can definitely see how it could be lethal to some people and it’s not very surprising if there are some negative after effects.

A-fucking-men sister. I’m so glad you were one of the “lucky ones” who didn’t succumb to those illnesses. There were so many more who didn’t make it.

I’m so glad you’re healthy now and here to educate us. You went through hell and have seen what anti-science can do to people.

Polio vaccination rates below that of much of the developing world.**

I’m 64 and had most of those childhood diseases they now vaccinate for. I still remember the delirium and hallucinations from my high fever due to measles. I was 40, just before the chickenpox vaccination became available and I caught it. The most miserable month of my life. Spots everywhere including my gums, inside…

Word. For some reason, my body can’t produce antibodies for chicken pox (I have an otherwise fully respectable immune system) so I get it over and over again. It is... less than ideal. I’m confused about why people who CAN get a vaccine and avoid something like that would chose not to (also it would benefit me if more…

My mother contracted polio a couple of years before the vaccine was released. She’s now in her late 60s and the polio is STILL trying to destroy her. Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate.

My father spent almost an entire school year in the hospital because of polio. He was similarly unimpressed with the anti-vaccination movement.

I have written this before, but I am a Baby Boomer born before the Salk vaccine. Polio was terrifying, for children and their parents. I went to nursery school with a girl who contracted polio as a baby. She wore heavy metal braces and could not run and play with the other kids. There is also a post-polio syndrome…

I had measles too and nearly died and nearly lost my sight and nearly had my foot cut off. I was 1. People have no idea. Thankfully I was taken care by the NHS staff in the UK here but with so much ignorance out there, infected kids may get bad care and live with the consequences that probably have a different health…

I’m up Western Washington, too. I’d offer a drink, but I’m not of age yet. ;)