Richard Nixon was a bastard, but he was also a smart guy. He understood that by resigning before congress would impeach him, he could set himself up for a pardon (which is exactly how events transpired).

Trump is cutting off foreign aid until the verdict is reversed and the man is given a cabinet post.

(But I daresay she thought that I had no right to weigh in, giving that I have no kids of my own ;-)

The room full of men thing seems plausible, but I also have no trouble believing that a (probably Mormon) mother of 5 could obliviously believe that all women are super thrilled about being pregnant as much as possible, even someone who had recently had a miscarriage would be eager to give it another go because God’s…

My main takeaway so far is that Ford screwing over French communities in Northern Ontario has blown up in Sheer’s face, to which I say: GOOD.

I’m assuming this was the winner of this year’s Jezebel Scary Stories Contest...

Ah yes, Schrodinger's Queer: Gay men aren't real men, but trans women are the manliest men.

Trump might use this 1-year-old speech tonight in North Carolina.

Depression is a disease that literally kills people.

Telling people with a fatal disease that they’re wrong and bad for taking medication that can save their life? That’s heinous on every single conceivable level, and especially reprehensible in the context of what depression does to our self-conception.

GFC this is so eerily similar to an experience I had when I was 13. The “just pretend that you’re asleep and he’ll go away” is exactly how I reacted. I ended up just rolling over and kind of making noise so he’d be scared his sister would hear. It was only after I was an adult that I recognized it as abuse. I had…

He has also argued against punishing men who hire prostitutes.

Also, the seat belt rides up to my throat and I have keep pulling it down (I’m only 5'3").  I don’t even want to imagine the neck injuries I will sustain if I’m in a serious car accident.

On a positive note...

Hey Happy Canada Day to all! Cheers!

Dude (or dudette) I’m outing your non-causal logic. Everybody knows that 1955, the year of the Salk vaccine, was the year that

Almost immediately, a man I’d seen before asked how I was liking the conference. I told him I was a journalist and had just been thrown out. He considered that for a moment, then told me he’s a former emergency room doctor who became anti-vaccine after his own son developed autism.

Interesting, but let’s not make the perfect the enemy of the good. If your baby is growing and your sanity is intact, you’re doing it right. 

Last year, our school district offered flu vaccine clinics at all the public schools. It was a very easy process — all I had to do as a parent was filling out permission slips with the insurance info. (It was free for us, but they must submit a claim.) I wonder whether schools could set up something similar for student…