I wonder if these other countries provide more physical therapy than we do. I think people in the US would use a lot fewer opiates if insurance here paid for physical therapy for routine pain management and not only while you were improving.

Calling Trump and his ilk mediocre is being very kind.

You win the cyber today.

60% of companies offer telecommuting and flextime options? Does anyone else feel there’s something odd about that figure? I can see it for office workers or programmers but we have switched to being a service economy and that generally requires people to be physically present. Nurses, beauticians, security guards,…

Ah, yes. The master race strikes again.

Cardiomyopathy and myocarditis can also be due to autoimmune disease. Lots of people die in their early 50s who don’t abuse drugs.

“Teachers and nurses have the kinds of jobs where you can’t just not show up.” Kinda the point. The world runs on women’s unpaid or underpaid labor. People were inconvienced and didn’t like it. That means it’s working.

The death of Fox Mulder. Fans will remember the unusable second bedroom packed floor to ceiling with Celebrity Skin mags.

Should someone check with Child Protective Services about that teenage daughter he likes to “embarrass”? I mean if pinching a woman’s genitals is a “joke”, maybe he “embarrasses” her by exposing himself or something.

I’m a nurse and my dad had an early onset frontal lobe dementia. I seriously think he has this and I’ve said so for months. Frontal lobe dementia is very different from Alzheimer’s. People with this retain their memory and verbal ability until far into the process, unlike with Alzheimer’s. It hit both my dad and my…

He’s not that smart. He got caught and arrested for something that usually goes unpunished.

She clearly thinks she will never get old and wrinkly. I hate to tell her that wrinkles happen no matter how much you pay for cosmetic surgery. Well, no, I don’t hate it, actually.

California has a rape shield law, which means the victims past sexual history can’t be used against her. So how the hell did this information get allowed at trial?

I had the same experience with an abusive mother. I say “forgiveness” is way overrated. It’s good if we can get to a place where we’re not carrying around the abuse and letting it determine our reactions to life. It’s a terrible burden that it’s best if we can just put it down. That doesn’t mean forgiveness,…

It’s not just that the U.S. takes so many. It’s also that effective pain medication is not legal or available in large parts of the world thanks mostly to international treaties relating to the war on drugs, and old fashioned customs. In India, which has 1/5 of the world’s population, a few doctors are only now…

Watch. The Republicans will fillibuster.

It does *not* imply that and only someone looking to argue would think so.

Not all men are emotionally capable of this. But they are physically capable and don’t carry signs telling us which they are.

This is about as personal as it gets for women. It’s not a theoretical issue you can look at somehow more “objectively”. That most men are physically able to kill or seriously damage most women is a fact women live with every day.

Until a woman knows a man pretty well, she doesn’t know if he is one of the ones capable of murdering her or not, or else not murdering but raping her, which is much more common. Women live with fear every single day. Most men are utterly unaware of all the precautions women routinely take. I often recommend to men…