Time out, in psychology literature, is actually called “time out from reinforcement”. Which basically means you ignore the child until they display prosocial or calm or otherwise productive behavior.

We are taught from early childhood to be terrified of strangers. Yeah.

Service dogs are a very big deal, and seizure alert dogs can be hit or miss on accuracy. Hopefully she does have access to one if that’s the route she wants to go down, though.

They were originally playing cards, not divinitation tools :p

This means their incessant ads stop now, yes?

I read the Simmons article as there was probably some health issue going on (physical, mental, or both), or he’s just burnt out. From what I’ve seen, he seems to always be “on”, which I can imagine can be draining.

So I had pneumonia last month, ended up in the hospital for a week after the antibiotics utterly failed, and was pretty much miserably sick from the end of January to a week ago. I had severe pleurisy, which basically means every breath felt like I was being stabbed. For two weeks straight. Still hurts if I breathe…

Pretty sure we could find out NDT eats kittens and he’d still be awesome.

I support decriminalization- I don’t think sex workers should be charged. I would support legalization *if* it was done carefully and thoughtfully, with many safeguards for sex workers.

I can understand people who go oversees to provided a needed service that isn’t otherwise available. And some missionaries are oversees primarily providing medical care, quality education, etc. Unfortunately, even with *those* missionaries, at least part of their mission is to gain converts. Which is gross.

Isn’t it awful? :p

I don’t think what he says jives with the headline. I mean, the guy is a douche, and I dislike christian missionaries as much as the next liberal atheist, but I don’t read this as saying “muslims are great if they convert”. I do think too many conservatives need to hear things like this, though. They need their…

Great idea! You tell this to your fertile friends, right? You will be sacrificing biological procreation to adopt, too?

I respect her choice and am sad it wasn’t successful, but also strongly agree with this. I am always a bit amazed that elective transplants get through ethics committees.

I think it really depends on the person. I never really benefited from antidepressants, and the side effects were no fun. But I know other people for whom they are miracle drugs.

Oh man, going off Effexor is HARD. I was on a massive dose before they diagnosed my hypothyroid. You have my sympathies.

1.) Correlation does not equal causation

I have hypothyroidism, and not taking the meds makes me depressed and forgetful, so it is really hard to take them properly once I forget a few doses. You have to plan the doses for an hour before breakfast.

They’re not allowed to marry currently and for the last few years (because Jeffs is in prison). Actually, this fact is likely to be what kills the sect. But don’t worry, it won’t kill their beliefs, unfortunately....