In the US?

Because of decades upon decades of more costly and expensive medical care with no hope of being able to cope with the rising costs. This puts people into desperate straits and they latch onto anything and everything that they heard “works”.

Stressed out people who are to busy fighting the fires of trying to…

Richard Dawkins did a wonderful miniseries on this, called “Enemies of Reason”. It’s on YouTube, really worth the watch.

A lot of the organic food you eat today wouldn’t exist without human/scientific intervention.

I’m not a crazy anti-vaxxer or anything, but I paid $250 for the pills. I was terrified of PPD and had read that the pills would not only help with energy and healing post-delivery, but also reduced chances of PPD. My partner and I went into it knowing we may just be paying for a placebo but both agreed we could…

I posted this down in teh grays when I meant to post it here. Sorry for double post.

I did this and I am no anti-vaxxer. Looking back, I made this decision in my 9th month of pregnancy, maybe a little crazy hormonal/stressed, and after doing some minor research online, I decided this couldn’t hurt me and why the fuck not. So I did it. I would say nothing noticeably bad/good happened. I shared my…

But they cry when we mail them dildos and end up getting shot by law enforcement, even though they’re white.

“However, the insistence that the only healthy way to drink is a small glass of wine with company at dinner, and anything else is self-medication, is puritanical nonsense. Some people drink a glass every night because they genuinely enjoy the taste of wine. Sometimes, those people are women, and sometimes, those women…

I’ve been to vineyards in France, California, New York- it’s something I’m interested in. I love wine. My husband works for a wine distributer. But I don’t drink it every day and I’ve found wine hangovers to be the worst, so I moderate. The brands that pursue the type of marketing people here are talking about- that’s…

It seems like the rule of thumb might be whether you are able to skip it for a day whenever you want (once a week might be a good test of that.)

But wine is cool. It’s a beverage that literally changed human history and that we’ve been drinking for thousands of years. The differences in winemaking techniques, grapes, regions- it’s all really cool. Not to mention that wine has health benefits if you don’t have a drinking problem. America’s problem isn’t wine or…

The wine glasses aren’t as big in Europe as they are here

That certainly wasn’t my experience in several parts of Europe, where a glass of wine every day seemed pretty typical, often at lunch. But it is hard to judge the daily life of europeans, as I didn’t live there. And, I don’t disagree with you re:the “mommy juice” BS, which is just a small way for women to buck the…

You aren’t being judgmental, but you are concern-trolling like a boss. Drinking within the recommended daily limits (which would be a glass of wine every single damn day for a woman) is the slippery slope to addiction? You will “pay the price”? Never, ever, travel to Europe. The wine industry has tricked the shit…

Oh yeah! My favorite relationships are Charlotte/Harry and Smith/Samantha. I feel like they are the only ones who grow as people. Miranda is just so unpleasant 90% of the time (now, to me) although the very, very end when she is taking care of her MIL you can see a glimpse of what Steve sees in her.

It doesn’t age well because it succeeded by putting a veneer of contemporary style on the old-fashioned practice of husband-hunting. The nineties are no longer contemporary, so it has become all too clear just how dinosaurian the show’s basic spirit is.

She was thst perpetual 14 year old who is obsessed with boys and love. It boggles my mind her friends sought HER out for advice.

Yes to all that. Very much not even fucking in New York during that time, and didn’t particularly care about rock, being about to turn 30. The Strokes and the White Stripes were pretty much where I stopped being excited about “new music” at all, at least by people younger than me, which is how that should happen,…

Read “Please Kill Me”, enjoyed it well enough. I’ll read this book, too, eventually. I don’t expect much based on the Jez article, though. But I’m older so I’m less enamored of that time as a defining moment. In fact, I don’t consider the 2000s bands of that time, whether in NYC, London or, elsewhere, to be defining…

Wait, I thought you just HAD to be in New York in 1977?