I kinda wanna see the news report with the grieving parents of a child lost to measles. "Do you regret not vaccinating NOW?" But I may be an evil person.

The core vaccines for kids are cheap or free. Unfortunately the core vaccines don't include the HPV vaccine (I worked with someone who is losing her daughter to a cancer preventable by that vaccine).

I don't understand how anyone with a medical degree — who has a job based entirely around applying interventions to stop illness and disease — would come out in favor of not intervening to stop illness and disease.

Might be because a lot of anti-vaxxers are refusing the vitamin-K shot given at birth. Helps with blood clotting, saves 1 life out of 10,000 that has a clotting disorder. But it is a scary needle and not an oral. ::eyeroll::

I'm kind of surprised that medical insurance companies aren't all over this. If they want to hike rates for smokers, for obese, for any risk factor whatsoever — why haven't they hiked prices for kids who are not being given preventative care? I'm pretty sure measles care in the hospital costs significantly more than a…

It's deeply disturbing to me that no one thinks about what the pledge is, but that there is such insistence that it be recited by school children.

I would have thought it would be more disrespectful to say it under duress. But then given how early it starts, I guess nearly everyone is saying it under duress.

I'm Canadian. Prior to moving it was a once-a-week national anthem (first verse only) and when I was in grade school we did the Lord's Prayer too (I'm old). I'd been prepped on proper not-my-national-anthem respectful silence (they do it at the Olympics, right?) but the creepy chant was unexpected.

The pledge confused the heck out of me when I first moved to the states. Suddenly everyone in my history class is mumbling in sequence like some cult scene in a movie. The only bit I could make out was "We pledge ah-lee-jens to the FLAG". It seems pretty weird to give your allegiance to a dusty, inanimate bit of…

Babies feel, right up until they are born female and then those feelings should go away.

I get the feeling that 'females' was a compromise between the word he wanted to use and his chances of getting re-elected.

I kinda think Bill Maher is the Rush Limbaugh of the left. Maybe if we smashed the two of them together at high speed we'd get one reasonable person out.

I'm just hoping that it's the 'vaccinated but not 100% covered' option and not the 'measles incubated in unvaccinated long enough to change so that the vaccines don't work'.

Sadly, it's only the people who survived all those childhood diseases that keep saying it wasn't that bad. If we could get an unbiased sample I think the results might be different.

Or a uterine birth, for that matter. It ain't sunshine and lollypops either.

I would like to be surprised by this, but I was in the room for a veterinarian explaining to a client why filming a euthanasia isn't permitted. Humans are gross.

"I saw a medical procedure I didn't understand, performed on body parts I don't have, on someone I didn't know, for reasons I don't know. I decided that all similar medical procedures under all circumstances are bad and wrong." — Chuck C. Johnson Logic

Frying all your food does not necessarily make is superior to the practice of boiling all your food.

There is a theory that when there is no official division between church and state (official state religion or suchlike) it actually hurts the church. If religions are not competing (with each other, or for new members) then there is no reason to campaign or take official stances on issues. There is no reason for the…

Category 5: "OMG, I drove here in a minivan and I'm buying an Elmo toothbrush. What happened to my life? I need a change . . . . maybe a vibrating cock ring will make me feel young and sexy again!"