Wow it’s my once-a-year visit to a comments section. First off the article is super clear that the flu shot isn’t always effective. It is, however, effective a great deal of the time. This is about HARM REDUCTION - not just for you, but for those with compromised immune systems around you. You know why in Japan and…

Then your healthcare provider committed fraud because it’s illegal to charge for administering the flu shot. 

You also, I take it, weren’t dealing with treatment that was discernibly different because of how you looked, which is what the entire piece is essentially about.

Lots of things can be true at the same time. Did you actually read the piece, or just the comments?

I'dunno. Even if it was an inside job, it might not be in Cheney's Top Five. Chief Executives of South American countries in the 70s set up rape camps, which is about as awful a thing as I could imgine. Why would our leaders be any less perverse if it served their aims. Seems naive to think otherwise, regardless…

My response was to the moron who seemed to think that in its infancy Gen X was capable of effecting a great deal of societal change and somehow failed to do that - the generation we we should all be pissed of at - if one needs to be picked out - are the baby boomers, who's fleeting brush with idealism ended in a…

"Your" a fucking moron. The whole fucking point is the we - X - are a tiny generation in comparison to that which came before and after us - so much so that is sometimes called the "baby bust". The way that voting works, bitch, is that they add them alllll up and whoever or whatever gets the most wins. So even if…

I think there was a slightly larger point being made here above and beyond the distribution of labor in fashion mags. It's about the manipulation of appearance (reality) in order to conform otherwise "inadequate" subjects to modern, often impossible norms of beauty. And it's kind of gross.

Trust me, they're not available to people making just $100K either. I've decided (all on my own) that for a couple with a kid here, $200K is the entry point to "middle class" if middle class is defined as having enough to own property, pay your bills, save a little, and send your kids to college. Which is nuts.

Right - beacause people in their 20s, like Gen X was most of the worst of this shit happened, hold so much societal power and clout. We really fucked up by not utilizing that and making everything good. You fuck.

But "potentially dangerous" people always existed, so your point is useless. There have always been ways to spy on people - the 4th Amendment was meant to limit such activity, wherever the person was, and especially in their home.

as one half of marc+mark, I will treasure this...forever. :)

In all seriousness, though, the Times piece didn't cover anything about our process. There is an extensive questionnaire for parents about how their kid currently eats, and from that we come up with recipes geared both to appeal to them (so they will eat it) and will also be a little healthier (so they will be…

In all seriousness, though, the Times piece didn't cover anything about the process. There is an extensive questionnaire for parents about how their kid currently eats, and from that we come up with recipes geared both to appeal to them (so they will eat it) and will also be a little healthier (so they will be…

thanks for the press. :) (one of the geniuses)

Wow - it's a precious gift to see naïvete in its pristine form.

I should note that I don't believe for a second that Monsanto would so much as lift a finger to help alleviate 3rd world hunger itself.

I've always been reflexively against GMOs. I saw "The Future of Food" ten years ago and it terrified me. I haven't quite jumped ship and decided to support GMOs, but after lots of talks with a friend whose intelligence I respect a lot, I couldn't answer his one central question - show me one peer-reviewed…

I'm so happy to recognize less than half of those names.

This is pretty fantastic.