Thank you for this article. As a nurse, I dealt a good deal with people who had chronic pain, particularly during the 6+ years I was in home health. When I went back into hospital nursing, I frequently ran interference for a couple of my former patients who had serious pain issues and who were frequently treated like…

My mom always said “Dirt makes kids grow”. I subscribed to that philosophy and my kids were pretty healthy. My daughter followed my advice and her boys are too. I guess my mom knew something. You can always give the kids a bath when they get dirty.

He won’t be “unemployed” by American, he’ll just be put on a different route.

In the books, in future, she will make some proto-penicillin from moldy bread. However, you must remember that she’s from 1947 and the only antibiotics available at that time were penicillin and sulfa.

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It sounds much more like she has what used to be called “mental retardation”. That would be an “intellectual disability”. If that is the case, I am utterly furious with her parents for arranging her first marriage, which ended in divorce after just a few months (oh, you didn’t know about that one? Do your research—she…

Go live in the Dakotas and watch how they treat their Native American communities before you talk to me about racial disparities in education and income level, not to mention appalling racism. And they are right next door to Minnesota...and it’s been going on a whole lot longer. The Somalis (and for that matter, the…

Konrad Lorenz theorized that domestic dogs sprang from two different animals—the aureus dog. which comprises the largest share of domestic dogs, is descended from the golden jackal, while the lupus dog, comprising the large, curly-tailed breeds (mostly northern and/or Asian in origin) is descended from wolves. He…