Pet rats are awesome! For people who haven’t encountered them, they’re pretty much like tiny dogs, temperament-wise. Tiny dogs who chew holes in everything.

Sometimes I get mad that English uses the Latin alphabet. Like, look at the letter “t”. Look at the letter “h”. Now look at “th”.

I’d bet decent money that there is either no widget, and “halogenerator” is the name for the salt they’ve covered the room in, or the “halogenerator” is a block of salt taped to a fan.

Damn, too late too edit. Okay, I’ve looked at pictures of salt rooms and read more descriptions, and I think they’re just describing rooms with enough salt in them that the room smells like salt in the most roundabout possible way.

That sounds…extremely painful? I must be missing something, because I’m just imagining a little salt sprayer throwing salt everywhere, and I see no mention of goggles.

If you want to read about some good old-timey stupid, look up the Cottingley Fairies.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

Please be very careful. This is for things that pass Phase 1 testing, which means basically nothing, just that there’s a dose that probably won’t kill you, and that’s not a guarantee. And unfortunately, if you’ll read the link I put in my first comment up there you can see that it does mean a loophole for quacks.

Ah, you underestimate the snake oilers! There’s a thing where people latch onto something that’s passed Phase 1 testing but still has no actual, like, proof of efficacy. Like the guy in the article I linked up there.

Not even that—the data’s not useful. Any actual healing or harm is a total side effect to this legislation’s goal of going around the FDA, because the FDA is evil Big Government.

Eh, if they want to publicly call desperate and dying people “dumb,” I’ll let ‘em.

Oh, and Jeb! down here is dismissing everyone who disagrees with him, so don’t bother.

Ha ha, I think JatH dismissed us! I thought they dismissed my rebuttal for getting more stars than him, but nope, you too. The dude (dude in the gender-neutral sense) does not approve of people disagreeing with him, I guess.

A local theater actually cancelled their reading of Assassins because they were worried that it would suddenly turn really tactless.

Oooooooooh!

And people who would have seen their kid graduate if the experimental treatment hadn’t killed them 3 months early would also exist, is a problem.

I don’t think pharma companies like it either. It’s a Goldwater Institute thing. USA Today article.

I can’t remember when you’re supposed to capitalize libertarian. Pretend I used whichever way is right.

About the right-to-try stuff: