YES! I've taken a cosmetic chemistry course with one of the writers on that site, and it makes me happy to know that people use the site as a resource!

The fact that he made his VOLUNTEER CAMPAIGN WORKERS spend $5 on water or "soda" (we say pop, asshole) at his campaign party tells me all I need to know about his regard for the citizens of IL.

Holmeag is right! 100% of humans who come in contact with it die.

You know, I wish we could go back to a simpler time when natural ingredients were in our beauty products: lead, mineral talc, barium. All of nature is gentle and completely harmless.

You know what's interesting? There is almost NO regulation on "natural products" that can actually be pretty harmful like tea tree oil, but a lot of regulation on things like salicylic acid. I'm more scared of using the natural products because they can put pretty much anything they want in there.

I've always felt like these anti-chemical whackjobs are the same people who talk about how vaccination is harmful to children. Fearmongering types are the worst.

THANK YOU. I'm so sick of journalists reposting the rantings of chemophobics. Want to know about science? Ask a fucking scientist. There are lots of them around! They love to dispel falsehoods.

To whatever end, can we stop using "chemicals" and "toxins" as scare words? I mean, the word toxin isn't accurate for this situation, and everything is a chemical. And what the hell is a "chemical activist?" I know that "chemicals" are super scary to the earth-loving types, but even natural things are chemicals and…

A million likes. But fear mongering is popular and makes a lot of cash. The "food babe" has no expertise and sells her premium sugar water and ad space quite effectively.

As a 19 year old who voted, I'm absolutely disgusted at the voter turnout. It took me less than an hour cumulatively to register and vote on the days that I had completed those tasks. It is our damn civic duty to vote. It doesn't take any effort to express our opinions, but doing so defines this nation as a whole.

I could not be more disappointed in my state if I tried, and that's saying something considering the long history of Chicago politicians' corruption.

A fun fact: In illinois when you vote, your employer is required to allow you to go but is not, however, required to pay you for the time you've taken off work to vote, effectively making voting cost anywhere from 1-3 hours wages depending on your polling place. I can see where anyone working a minimum wage job would,…

Holmeag, that is one depressing chart. I have already said this to everyone I know about two weeks before the election: Bruce Rauner will be our next jailed governor. No, I don't know anything I didn't read in the paper about this guy but I just have that one-more-governor-in-jail feeling. Ugh.

I am really sad. I had three friends over to watch the returns, we had planned on it for a while. Two of whom also remembered sitting in my apartment two years ago, hearing cheers from another apartment a minute before the election was called for Obama on the network we were watching.

"Honestly, Taylor Swift should hit a real bodega, get a greasy egg and cheese and a coffee that she shakes up while unsuccessfully covering it with a napkin—spilling some of it on her outfit—hop on the train or, even better, a bus, while reading the Page Six, and stop by and take a selfie in front of Chico's last…

I look forward to when Rauner walks into office ready to make his sweeping moves and is met by a cadre of union guys ready to inform him who REALLY runs the state.

I've met her and Durbin several times for work and both are really delightful humans who have always treated me (a lowly helper) with respect, called me by name etc. I tend to lean way way further left than most mainstream Dems but I really appreciate sometimes being able to vote for people who I also like as people…

I grew up in Illinois and this was the only election result that I found truly shocking.

Like, I said this yesterday. I'm from Missouri and our politics (especially St. Louis/St. Louis County politics) are trash, but I was genuinely shocked at how Illinois voted. Like, genuinely shocked.

I'm so fucking mad at Illinois right now. Sometimes I forget how red this state is, though, because I live in dark blue Chicago.