NO!

I have 20 years on you and have come to the opposite conclusion. There's a real quiet, lovely satisfaction in knowing you are a good person who won't lie, cheat, steal or screw others over, and who, in fact, goes out of one's way to be kind and helpful. I see myself as creating the world I live in. Not all of it - I'm…

Maybe. If it helps, the police and FBI monitor the board and have also used the stupid boasting to catch bad guys and even stop crimes before they happen.

"It just hit me how fucked up this is. Some kid is going to come home and find his dead mom. Jesus. I feel sick."

It didn't hit you when you heard that a woman was killed? You only figured it out when you realized her son would be the one to find his dead mother? Yeah, it's an extra layer to the already fucked-up…

This gif. Is everything.

In regards to the history of witchcraft in the South: I think it's important to point out that the plantation South is just such a small part of our regional history. As opposed to the more monolithic New England, the region, even - perhaps especially - in antebellum times was made of a complex and diverse blend of…

I think you missed her point that witch beliefs WERE rational in the 16th century. Rationality is a culturally and historically subjective position. Witch beliefs were shared by those Oxford and Cambridge educated, as was a belief in diabolic influences on the world. Scot's skepticism was wholly conditioned by a…

It really is awful and I fear that Mr. Duncan has been so wrongly vilified. The pictures of him in his bright green shirt should remind us all that he is a human being, who was probably so excited to get here and marry his girlfriend and had hopes and dreams and treated a neighbor with fatal kindness. And we could do…

The NYTimes is reporting that before boarding the flight from Cleveland to Dallas, the second nurse reported to the CDC that her temperature was 99.5, but because that's below the 100.4 threshold the CDC didn't tell her not to fly. At that point the CDC had known for two days that the first nurse was sick, yet they…

Agree that this shouldn't have happened. Disagree that it means anything close to imminent pandemic or risk for more than a handful of people.

Yeah, it's probably not good.

Don't panic Auntie. It will be ok. The people who are currently being treated at that hospital have a far greater chance of catching ebola than any of us, even the people who flew with the nurse. Apparently the hospital really didn't give those nurses much to go on, and sent samples of Duncan's fluids down the tubes…

I hate to be that guy, but keep in mind that none of Duncan's family has been diagnosed yet. It sounds like nurses were cleaning up the fluids he was expelling from his body with minimal safety training, which is why health care workers — especially ones in this apparent clusterfuck of a hospital — are at a much…

So is the US gov't. They should have had a team from CDC in place. It appeared to me initially that only a few hospitals in the US were equipped to deal with this disease, why did they not transport him to one of them?

Exactly.

The last line of your comment is especially poignant, given that if I remember correctly, Duncan contracted ebola by helping an afflicted woman get to the hospital by taxi because she couldn't get an ambulance to come get her :/

Overall this was fascinating and eye-opening, and totally, I'm 100-percent on board with the idea that ebola panic is at least in part racist panic. However, I'm kinda turned off by the opening critique of the New York Times photo and story. Correct me if that is truly a skewed representation of what is actually…

If anything, we should be seeing more photos of the reality of Ebola in west Africa because it's way too easy for us sitting comfortably on this side of the world to shrug off the crisis as just something that's happening "over there." Yes, it's shameful that people don't give a shit until it lands in their backyard,…

A really interesting article with a lot to think about.

As a longtime bleeding heart liberal, this article is so unbelivably self-serving and disingenuous.