Pepin has continued the Cooking at Home series on YouTube through his foundation, proceeds of which go to train folks like the homeless, the formerly imprisoned, recovered addicts, etc., for culinary jobs. Super fun to watch, and you learn stuff.

Comparing human women to the cattle that we use and abuse for to exploit their biological reproductive functions for our own gain is probably the most honest thing a Republican has said about abortion in decades.

This is all true, but it doesn’t change the reality that these nurses did not remotely consider the absolutely terrible fucking optics of maternity nurses publicly clowning patients for how they behave in these incredibly important and vulnerable moments. It’s especially galling to people who did have bad experiences,…

A “good price” on ad-supported content is $0.

uBlock Origin is on the list to replace AdBlock Plus because a while back ABP started accepting payment to exempt ads from getting blocked. A good chunk of the masses have switched to uBP.

I see it exactly like one of the community meetings on Parks and Rec. Nobody who’s there actually understands anything, and all the people who do had something better to do. Your dumbest and most confused neighbors get to decide whether you were raped by your uncle or not, just as the Founding Fathers intended.

Are these the deaths panels I kept hearing about when the ACA was announced?

I’m sure this would be a timely process and not dragged out at all to end up with “Oh, you passed the 15-week mark, too bad.”

I still haven’t seen evidence that colonoscopies really prevent colon cancer.

This is a great idea for anyone who wants to buy Viagra or a firearm! I’d totally volunteer to serve on that board!

starting to think this trump guy might be racist

Yes, along the same lines, mammograms and Pap smears and low-dose CT scans don’t prevent breast and cervical and lung cancers, respectively, either. But they help catch those cancers at early stages so that it’s more likely to be treatable and not a death sentence.

Prevention isn’t the actual intent of the procedure — it’s early detection and the earlier commencement of treatment. It’s exactly why pre-cancerous polyps are usually removed during the procedure itself. It also sets a baseline condition of “everything’s OK as of this date” so that if future conditions develop,…

Know your family history. Talk to your parents and see if they’ve had any polyps. If they have had large ones you should be screened at 40 instead of 45. Try to get information on how their colonoscopies went and relay that information to your PCP, they should be able to see the guidelines to determine if you should…

True, there are women who have killed their male partners or who they wish to have. Jodi Arias is an example. However, way more women are killed by men than the other way around. There are always exceptions to any “norm”.

There is likely a parade of evidence leading directly to his door.  I doubt getting a conviction will be difficult.

I’m often tempted to grumble about people who only change their minds after an issue personally affects them. It’s hard to be charitable in these cases. I find it helpful to fall back on the sentiments of one of my favorite columnists, Connie Schultz (and I’m probably badly paraphrasing her here): “We can’t ask people…

I saw an article today that touted how the federal deficit has been cut in half in the last year. IN HALF!!! How is this not in 1500 pt font on the front page of every news outlet? How is it not huge news across the entire country? Oh, because it occurred during a Democratic administration, so it just gets ignored by…

You don’t have to feel sympathy for her. Having people, doesn’t matter who, telling their stories like this is something that unfortunately needs to keep happening from now until election day because the American public has the attention span of a two-year-old, apparently.

The reality is that people like her are the only ones that actually have a CHANCE to change the minds of those around them. The voice has to come from inside the house. Conservatives have done a perfect job of created sealed echo-chambers and creating voters who automatically reject anything said by anyone they…