Love AAA, but make sure your auto insurance doesn’t already cover emergency road services in your regular plan (Geico’s does, but I’m not sure about others).

Look at this fucking thing.

OMG...what if he IS Steven King cosplaying as a hipster? It would explain so much.

Ha! I thought (and posted) the same thing.

Separating the art from the artist doesn’t work for me when the artist’s ego clearly comes pounding through on every page, as it does with Franzen. Perhaps the responsibility of separation shouldn’t lie solely with the reader/consumer; perhaps the artists should work harder to keep their egos in check.

CACAO

So... he’s describing a rape scene here? This is a rape scene?

So because we can’t have hard data on what precise percentage of parents honour requests to help prevent germs or allergens in the classroom, we shouldn’t bother making requests?

‘K...

Never change, O Canada.

I think that you are seeing this as an all-or-nothing, black-and-white proposition, rather than a perfectly ordinary preventive measure. Of course no parent of an immunosuppressed child can be sure that their child is 100% safe from germs at school, nor can any parent of a severely allergic child be sure that their…

You’re shifting the goalposts, a common tactic of the anti-vax crowd.

No link between autism and vaccines? Shift the goalpost by relabeling an autism diagnosis “vaccine induced neurological damage [mimicking] an autism diagnosis”, never mind that so-called “vaccine induced neurological damage [mimicking] an autism…

I think we are mostly in agreement, actually.

When parents immunosuppressed children ask other parents to keep their sick children home, or parents of severely allergic children ask other parents not to pack lunches with allergens, they are making a reasonable request that cannot be legally enforced — as distinct from…

Yes and I agreed with Tabby Gevinson when s/he remarked upon the stupidity of anti-vaxxing parents, and liked those posts.

I just do not understand this bashing of parents (pro-vax, anti-vax, whatever) for protecting their children with severe allergies.

That was sarcasm. I was being sarcastic.***

(Psst. Your username is a burner account. You have no history of posts. Maybe you don’t realize that posts are not the same as comments? Maybe you don’t understand that comment history can be found under Kinja’s “discussions” tab now? Or maybe you’re just thick?)

***[ETA: Oh…

In the US life-threatening food allergy is a disability with corresponding legal accommodations and protections. Allergen-safe classrooms and lunch rooms are perfectly normative recommendations under CDC’s guidelines: http://www.foodallergy.org/cdc

(Is this meme still in fashion? Will it ever be out of fashion?)

It doesn’t! But to anti-vaxers autism is a fate worse than death.

Vaccination saves lives. So do school policies that ban allergenic foods when a student has a potentially fatal allergy.

Where’s the bubble for defense/Skynet?

Apparently it’s to do with old laws in the Wild West pitting farmers against cattlemen.