At what type of establishment can you walk in and sign for and drive away with an item that’s worth 20 to $50,000 and the person you just got it from didn’t check any ID to see if you were the actual person signing the documents? Really I didn't know you could buy a car without proper ID and I worked at a dealership…

Or a dealership with a 70's Porn star name.

As if selling Chrysler products wasn't enough of a scam already...

I have kids and my only thought is that I hope the child is not suffering, and that maybe it’s time for the parents to let him go and grieve. After all, the experimental treatment won’t cure him. As a parent, the best you can do is the best for your child. Not the best for yourself. You often have to put your feelings…

I think the answer is that media can help shape what we like and what we dislike, and it can help define what is cool and uncool, but it can’t override our basic morality.

Presently there is no treatment. Cost is not the problem.

The kid is functionally dead and even if the treatment allows him to breathe without the equipment he will remain a vegetable. Frankly, I find the parents prolonging his life as utterly selfish. Call it love all you want but keeping someone alive when they should be dead (Terry Shaivo) is selfish.

This kinds thing burns my buttons. They used to do experimental proton-beam therapy at Harvard, just down the street from my house. The doctors knew from the first few cases that blasting the little children’s skulls with massive amounts of radiation wasn’t going to save them, but they wanted to “refine the…

It’s sickening how the GOP have latched onto this case as evidence the universal healthcare system doesn’t work. “Death panels! See!” they shout, while their healthcare system would kill millions, as insurance companies determine who can and can’t get insurance and medical care.

I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in these parents shoes, but I also find it disturbing that people will happily crowdfund the millions of dollars in care that this baby will need but balk at providing comprehensive medical care for free or at an affordable cost to people who need it, or provide a decent,…

Exactly. The parents don’t know what kind of pain this kid will have to endure with treatment. So, why do that to him? Ugh.

So, what’s the purpose of the treatment they want to get? Is it intended to just prevent his condition from getting any worse? I understand that of course the parents want to do something, and I can’t imagine being in their position, but even if the treatment were to work, against hugely impossible odds, their poor…

The judge took a swipe at Trump, stating that he had to decide the case on the basis of evidence rather than tweets. And a bunch of evangelical Christians flew in from the USA “to support Charlie and his parents” and made themselves look silly by praying in the street outside the High Court (creepy to British eyes)

Horrific situation, but the general mainstream UK opinion is: most parents would do what these parents are doing, but that’s why courts exist: to make sure the core concern is the interest of the child and the vast weight of medical evidence, and not overwhelmed by (natural but illogical) desperation.

Republicans gave Jimmy Kimmel so much shit for asking a simple question about if his baby gets care why can’t everyone elses. This happens and they are like OH! Save the child. So much goddamn hate.

Fuck off, Cheeto and “Cool” Pope. Your interference in this is just making it harder for these poor parents and especially this poor child.

So per the Catholic church, reproductive care like IVF and artificial insemination = evil, but prolonging the suffering of an infant who will never lead a healthy or long life is totally fine?

I used to love the anti-smoking full-page ads that were so prevalent in comics after the settlement in the big tobacco litigation. “Tobacco is Whacko!” and then under that, “If you’re a teen.” Most. Ridiculous. Qualifier. Ever.

Noooot happy with this. You would think that big tobacco has enough profit from tageting and killing third world people.

“We’ve known for a while that the more you see smoking on screen, the more likely you are to see youth smoking cigarettes in real life,” author of the report and public health analyst for the CDC told CNN.