Yes, Jesus would totally have left a lady stranded by the side of the road if she planned to vote for someone he didn’t like. Bingo! That was the Lord telling you that. Oh wait, nope, that would be your ego and the devil making that choice. Piece of shit.

Ahhh parents. I’m surprised my mother-in-law hasn’t chimed in about travel limitations yet. My mom didn’t say anything. Until she practically cheered when I told her that we decided not to go to Central America this summer.

They certainly need to be gentle about it but they are able to deny boarding to anyone they think has a medical condition—from pregnancy to whatever—that could force a diversion or otherwise put other passengers in danger.

I think you need to work through whatever chip it is you have on your shoulder. YOU are the one who brought it up in the context of microcephaly. I, and others, pointed out that appearances are not the main concern of microcephaly and why people are afraid of passing Zika on to their fetuses. Yes, we live in a vain…

Yeah, you do know that this isn’t just cosmetic, right? It’s not just a lack of a fully-formed skull, the brain isn’t fully-formed, either. Plus they’re finding that at least some of these babies in Brazil have eye problems that may mean blindness.

I’m so sorry you’re in this position. Personally, I would skip it. If it were me, I wouldn’t even enjoy the trip very much because I’d be worried the whole time and then I would have horrible anxiety the whole rest of the pregnancy.

Oh, plenty of states are already into forcing women to carry non-viable pregnancies to term since a lot of the time you learn about serious problems at the 20-week ultrasound.

Suppose it ever occurred to a single one of these dips hits that if they have wives/daughters this would save them money, too?