Well, he cut his brother’s children out of his father’s will and reneged on a promise to pay for the medical care of his nephew’s sick baby:

I don’t see how the “he’s not a bigot, he just says bigoted things” argument even works — isn’t it even worse if he’s such a cynic that he’ll appeal to people’s worst possible instincts to get elected?

There was this lovely case last year in Boston; when asked about it, Trump said only that his followers were “passionate”.

My mom caught the measles and mumps at the SAME TIME when she was a child. Her description of that experience was enough to make me grateful to grow up with vaccines, and to get my own child vaccinated.

Huh. The term “Exalted cyclops” puts Jon Goodman’s character in “O Brother Where Art Thou” in a whole new light.

a.) As an alum, I’m both sickened and not surprised by Harvard’s institutional failure here. For all of its many strengths as a research university, it wasn’t great at providing many services - academic, social, medical or psychological - to undergraduate students when I was there 15 years ago. The prevailing attitude…

Yeah, it seems to either be great or awful, without much of a middle ground. I’ve only been taking it for a few months. With it, I’ve finally able to taper off of steroids after several failed attempts, and my liver seems to be doing okay. So my fingers are crossed. I hope you’ve fully recovered from its effects on…

Sigh. I recently learned that the phrase “America, right or wrong” has a second clause: “If right, to be kept right; if wrong, to be set right.” It’s a quote by Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who served both as a U.S. Senator and a general in the U.S. Army during the Civil War.

Yikes! If you don’t mind me asking, what do you mean by “damage”? I know about the potential for liver problems, but I’m obviously interested in what other risks it may pose.

Ooof, I’m sorry you’ve had to go through all that. I hope you have an awesome story - bear attack? Pirates? - for your scars. I’m currently on Imuran, which is sort of working - if my inflammatory markers don’t go down, though, my doctor wants me to try Humira or Remicade. I'm not thrilled by the prospect, but on…

Thanks for your kind words. The difference in outcomes might be due to delays in diagnosis — I imagine people tend to be diagnosed in more advanced stages of colon cancer than with lymphoma. And yeah, my grandma died relatively young of colon cancer. The family always attributed it to her work in a chemical factory…

Speaking as a person recently diagnosed with Crohn’s, immunosuppresants are prescribed to reduce your body’s inflammatory attacks on your digestive system, which in addition to causing all sorts of exciting problems like strictures (when your bowel narrows with scar tissue, usually requiring surgery) and fistulas…

“Though she received a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree and a law degree, published over twenty books and had a vibrant career as a speaker and activist, Schlafly rejected the idea that most women should be anything more than homemakers.”

I’m a blue-eyed WASP who took a nice Jewish boy off of the market. Our child has white-blond hair and blue eyes. We call him our Aryan nation baby. White genocide for the win!

I know, right?

I hadn’t either, but it’s the only explanation that makes sense to me at this point. The stakes are so high for him, and prevention so easy — i.e., stop sexting Donald Trump and NRA supporters — that I can only assume he’s doing it on purpose.

Public shaming is a hell of a kink.

They should just feed any internet comment section into a random word generator and broadcast the results through a jack-0'-lantern’s mouth.

She looks like she’s taking it very seriously. Good for her.

Now I wish we’d asked my husband’s cousin to get Tom Brady to officiate our wedding. He did make an appearance on the cousin’s son’s bar mitzvah video...