Vaccines are not money-makers for Big Pharma; if they were, we'd be getting vaccines constantly. They lose money on vaccines but make it on medicines for diabetes and other chronic conditions. I know that isn't exactly what you asked but just as an FYI.

In case anyone needs support next time someone says of measles, "It's only a rash":

Yeah, part of the problem is that these diseases have disappeared because we've done such a good job eradicating them and people have forgotten how awful and dangerous they are. It's incredibly foolish.

Yeah, I'm all about using natural remedies if they work and my very traditional psychiatrist dad encourages melatonin before klonopin but a chiropractor would be the last practitioner I would listen to regarding viruses.

Notice how he didn't mention polio as one of the diseases our kids have a "right" to get?

Wow-how cool!

I just posted a picture of baby Brooke Shields. She did OK.

I took a picture of my son doing a cartwheel in Holland Park, London a few years ago. Two weeks later, it had been geotagged by the London Hilton and was on their Facebook page. I lost my shit and they apologized profusely and of course, took it down. We weren't even staying there.

I looked like Winston Churchill as a baby.

The only thing funny about my story is where it happened so I won't spend a ton of time embellishing it with extra words. My fiance' and I were training for a marathon and were running through northern Baltimore city. I felt a gigantic one coming, as running often does, but there was NOWHERE to stop except the…

Is "-ghazi" the new "-gate"?

"my brother was growing more and more frustrated with the lying".

Shit, I would walked right out of the exam room and refused to deal with him. WTF.

I am already a little weepy at this news and I am way past child-bearing age.

I think there are already some resorts because Europeans and Canadians (and others) have been going for awhile. What bothers me is when I hear people saying they want to buy old, gorgeous buildings and use them for their personal vacation home. :-(

Well, Don Johnson has always been kind of a dick, right? I blame him.

Hold off as long as you can; it becomes pervasive and other parents will justify it, so it can be tough. My son has a cheap LG phone that he can take pictures with and text but he loses it a lot and could care less. I got it for him because he went on a school trip to Boston last March and I was also out of town and…

Sounds like the assault started well before the actual battery/haircut. I mean, what grownup does that?

Sister is a sociopath so cut off ties and let your husband visit her on his own.

Right? Who could do this to their own child? Forget it; parents have done even worse.