Even with no drinking involved, undressing is extremely common in cases of advanced hypothermia.

Yep. I know in Philly we’ve had a few cases over the years of a young person getting drunk at bar, then leaving by themselves in dangerously cold weather to just wander off somewhere and eventually pass out and die of exposure.

Sorry, at some point, letting adults make their own (even potentially fatal) decisions has to kick in. Someone leaves, they cease to be my responsibility. They’re an adult. They likely have a telephone. They can call someone. They can go somewhere. They can knock on a fucking door & beg to be let in while their ride…

There was a case a couple of years ago in northern MN on a similarly frigid night where college kids dropped off a friend at her house, then drove away before watching to make sure she got in the door. She apparently dropped her keys in the snow, couldn’t find them or get in, and was found the next morning on her…

Some hypothermia victims start to feel overheated as the effects of the cold progress.

As someone who lives in an area with similar winter temperatures, I truly don’t understand why her friends did not go after her. You never let your friend go outside in cold weather drunk if they are not bundled up. People die all the time in temperatures like that. I’m probably being too harsh on them, but you would…

*sigh* Winter in the Midwest you don't ever assume "someone picked her up" you call and freaking check! Mad at you or not, you keep calling.

There are many complicated things about the tax code, but the fact that regular people don’t understand marginal tax rates is a combination of stats not being a normal high school subject (because of course we all use Algebra II on a daily basis, don’t you know) and certain candidates being intentionally misleading…

A tax code shouldn’t be based entirely on the lowest common denominator, because a completely unnuanced flat-rate either takes too much hair off lower incomes or treats higher incomes as if they’re helplessly living on as fragile margins as the poor. Your first 9k is precious no matter who you are, and the 100k you…

I will never understand how people seem to think that someone saying "Black lives matter" somehow means "everyone else's life doesn’t" like what kind of mental gymnastics does someone go through to need to shout ALL LIVES MATTER in response?

Look, I’m with you. I agree! What’s infuriating is that some* Sanders supporters constantly ask for the benefit of the doubt when they never give it to Hillary. Bernie wants to change his mind on gun control? Great. He gets to be high minded and flexible. Hillary changes her mind on Keystone? She’s craven, or…

Some may bray with the “flip flop” trope - personally, I WANT a candidate with the courage and mental capacity to refine and revise legislation, unlike the ubiquitous adherents to dogma.

What sometimes gets left out of stories about the dangers of women giving birth at older ages is the fact that a lot of the problems have more to do with the age of the men than the women.

Isn’t ANYTHING compared to beans and whole grains going to be more likely to cause gestational diabetes?? Color me unsurprised.

“I felt my faith aligned with the Republican party”

ONE SIZE THEOCRACY FITS ALL

I don’t understand how BS has fooled so many people after we’ve seen the 7 years of President Obama’s battle with congress. It is literal foolishness and folly to believe that we will get single-payer healthcare within the next two years AT LEAST, especially with an anti-Wall Street candidate in a climate that fosters…

Yeah, please send me my dental patients to my house so I can clean their teeth with my butter knives I have in the kitchen drawer.

Giving men paternity leave would actually go a long way toward destigmatizing maternity leave. Right now we treat raising children, and particularly babies, as almost entirely the mother’s responsibility. Women are penalized for procreating and men are not because women are expected to make major lifestyle and career…

I LOVE how people just casually suggest that working from home is equivalent to maternity leave, like it’s so easy to work while caring for a newborn. The first three months with my second born were so intense that taking a shower felt like a major accomplishment.

Guys, if we’d just gotten our shit together, we could have had Wendy Davis.