Fellow Washingtonian here. We have amazing sex ed statewide, compared to much of the country. I worked with Planned Parenthood as a peer educator for all 4 years of high school, and helped lobby Olympia to pass laws stating that if you're going to teach sex ed, it has to be comprehensive. This ought to be a national…

"The Rhythm Method." Known in my (Catholic) household growing up as "Vatican roulette."

I'm starting sex ed early. My son isn't yet four and I've been reading him a kid-geared facts of life book called "Who Made Me." (I censor out all the God parts, and hedge all the wedding prereqs by say that sometimes the moms & dads get married, but not always). I figure if I start young and frequently, it won't be…

Just nobody tell Fox News that the commemorative quote on the 9/11 memorial is about two gay terrorists ... or, if you do, give me time to heat up some popcorn first.

I approve of the quote. Most viewers will understand it to be a kind memorial to the victims, and there's a darker - but important - message for those who are more informed. We should never forget the devastating consequences of mixing fundamentalist religion with desperation.

Canterbury is lovely this time of the year. And you can get your friends together to tell saucy stories on your way there!

Carl Sagan once said, "Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood."

No, it means confirmation bias. What about all the bad stuff that doesn't happen on your birthday? What about all the good stuff that does?

I guess I don't travel that much, I'd say I take RT flights 12-15 times a year, but I haven't really seen things get too terribly worse. I have a few "rules" I try for the post part to stick with, which tend to help me with travel stress.

I'm sorry, but I will take this "bride wars" shit seriously the day men's media outlets release a million competing articles nitpicking groomsman duties and mocking men who ask their friends to do too much/too little or who throw overly conventional/quirky/cheap/expensive/whatever weddings. Weddings are optional and…

I think it's okay for someone to be "led" to feminism after a shitty relationship that causes her to re-think her place in society. Her feminism is real - it doesn't end up just as revenge against Joey or anything. Also I thought she dumped him after they had sex but she didn't really want to (but everyone else was?)

This article cut off at 50. I was expecting 1 million things. I await the next installment.

"Parents need to look out for their kids before anyone else's"

If you don't understand the science, how in the world could you possibly estimate that 49 vaccines is excessive? YOU ARE BASING YOUR DECISIONS ON ARBITRARY THINGS.

I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with you here. It's the responsibility of the physician to promote and protect public health. I wish we lived in a world in which it was the law to vaccinate, because we wouldn't see the numbers of infants dying of pertussis and measles. We wouldn't see outbreaks in largely unvaccinated…

Didn't you know? The International Association of Industry Moguls for Forcing Vaccines on an Unsuspecting Populace is having its annual conference next month! Lex Luthor is its chairman.

If you're concerned about data, Kenet Lansman's numbers look very good: she says that in the 16 years she's been open, she's never had a child come down with "a serious, life-threatening, vaccine-preventable illness."

Feel intellectually superior?

No.

But shit like this perpetuates unscientific thinking and holds us back. It's kind of funny that usually the people I see talking and doing things like this are usually the first to attack things like organized religion. They are functionally equivalent.

"Does it make people feel intellectually superior to show up on articles like this and immediately declare it to be bullshit?"