I realize it is completely inconsequential to the meat of this story but Holy Shit if that doesn't just add another layer of WTF.

But Mississippi is the state with the highest vaccination rates despite the highest poverty rates. This issue with unvaccinated children has nothing to do with the plight of the working poor. The source is wealthy people with easy access to healthcare - in fact, in California you have to have an MD sign off on a…

The communities with the lowest vaccination rates are high income. These are wealthy families obsessed with everything natural and organic and avoiding toxins and chemicals and thinking their special snowflake children shouldn't be jabbed with needles.

My kids were at that preschool - hence my own Paul Rudd anecdote. Less embarrassing but also less entertaining.

I'm Dorothy.

It was about 5 years ago and we had a mutual acquaintance and I ended up at his country house for a summer BBQ and he was grilling burgers. He also got my husband a Guinness from the tap in his basement. He's a solicitous host but I was incapable of any kind of dialogue with him because I was so star struck. I did…

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I love that this post has been up for more than 30 minutes and has zero stars.

I agree, but that's harder to enforce. But I feel like these loosey-goosey approaches to vaccination exemptions amount to tacit approval. We have to treat anti-vax the same way we've treated smoking and racist speech - completely socially unacceptable. I think it could go a long way in bringing vaccination rates back…

The only vaccine exemptions should be health related. If you don't want to vaccinate your kids then homeschool them. If I can't send my kids to school with PB&J, I damn well shouldn't be able to send them without MMR.

Many of the subways could have continued to run safely. That part was dumb.

The worst part is imagining these kids at their reunion BBQs laughing jocularly in front of their kids about the time they totally trashed that ski lodge, creating a new generation of entitled douchebags with no respect for other people's property.

Well he can be brainwashed and love LRH. That's what brainwashing is, after all. But we're on the same side. I've read many books about it and it is clearly a horrible organization. I'm sorry it has affected you personally.

I know they blackmail people, and worse, but I think he's in it for the love of LRH. KSW for life.

But it can't just be extortion that's keeping Cruise in the church. He believes in it. I know he's a professional actor, but I still think he's being sincere when you see him in that leaked Scientology video where he's getting an award for being the greatest Scientologist ever. I'm sure he thinks he's Scientology…

Birth control isn't 100% effective when used correctly, but no one uses that as a reason to reject the overall efficacy of birth control. Anti-vax makes me so mad!

Yeah, but MMR isn't until they are 1. Is it reasonable to ask a parent to keep their baby out of the library sing-a-long, or Disney, or school pick-up, etc until she is 1? Especially a second (or third, fourth, etc) child?