Hormonal birth control actually increases the risk of breast cancer; the article’s a bit ambiguously worded on this type of cancer in particular, since they’d have to be actually having kid(s) and breastfeeding to reduce *that* risk.

How about a bill banning non-medical exemptions, instead?

I may disagree with it personally, but: her body, her choice.

I guessed immediately from the headline that the unnamed autism charity would turn out to be Autism Speaks.

But if you have unvaccinated (by parental choice) kids in your practice, you’re putting others at risk.

I’ve been sadly expecting Lexa’s death for some time, too. If she’d gone out like the badass, noble warrior she is, it wouldn’t have left such a bad taste in my mouth.

I think David Cameron and the pig is still my favourite sex scandal of all time, though.

If you hate to be that person, then don’t be that person.

If you dislike peat, try Glengoyne!

Oh, I see. You’re a troll.

Mental illness is not license to hurt others without consequence. You don’t have to be “responsible” for your actions in order for the people you’re hurting to be justified in protecting themselves by avoiding you.

I’m sorry you feel we’re not being sufficiently charitable about men’s desires to pretend they’re fucking underage girls, Mr Male Feminist.

“It’s unfortunate that such events could happen...”

Wow, yeah, that’s pretty messed up. Even if you’re perfectly at ease with it all, nobody wants extra/drawn out medical procedures.

I was in NYC maybe 5 years back, and a young girl (8-10) got separated from her family when the subway car’s door closed before they got on. So I offered for my friend and I to stay with her at the next stop until they came; the parents didn’t seem to find anything weird about it, and just said thank you once they…

I’m sorry. Do you have access to counselling to help you sort through it all, maybe?

I tend to think he did, if only because “he tried to steal a SIGN!!” is the weakest fake accusation imaginable.

There’s also a great little implicit assumption in there that she couldn’t possibly have this many women employees in a situation where she simply hired the people best suited to the jobs.

Best potential explanation I’ve seen for this is that she had general talking points - “say something nice about record on Alzheimers’s” - but was tired out from campaigning and literally did just misspeak, substituting one disease for another. I’ve made enough dumb similar mistakes that I can believe it.

If you have a conscience you won’t be throwing women and minorities under the bus by not working to stop the Republican candidate getting into office. You want Trump nominating people to the Supreme Court? Or Cruz?