I think sugar probably has a big influence?

I'm so sorry. What an awful way to treat someone.

Sometimes people do realize it, though. I have seen people fight (unsuccessfully) against the decline. After she was diagnosed my great aunt used to make jokes about forgetting who we were until she really started to forget. It just seems so utterly horrible.

Degenerative diseases are a little different, I think — if I were to get Alzheimer's, I think I'd want out before I stopped knowing who my family was (having seen family members stop knowing who I am, and seen brilliant minds fight against their own demise. It'd just be too much). That's different than a…

The reminder that you're never *really* out of the woods is so terrifying.

Very true. It seems like these dogs are all about the kisses, so this is cool and great! My old dog would have loved this; he was just a sweetie who loved everybody. My current dog is sweet and adorable but is also terrified of the vast majority of people.

This shit predates the Bush administration, though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Ki…, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_…

Yes. All this is true. But it also okay to feel anger towards people who've killed themselves. Four years ago, I lost a friend to a suicide, and beyond my own grief, my feelings towards him were, and still at times are, a mixture of utter heartbreak for the pain he was in and anger for the pain he inflicted on…

His daughter's tweet — a quote from Le Petit Prince — is what got to me. What an awful, awful way to lose a family member.

Yup. At the high school level, English is probably the most accessible way to teach critical thinking. At the college/beyond level, any subject CAN be taught critically.

I definitely learned critical thought in my humanities classes. In high school, my history, Latin, and English teachers were the ones who pushed me to really think critically, and where my own critical thinking skills flourished. That said, as someone who only took a handful of 101 science courses in college but is…

Yes! I've had this burner for 8 or 9 months now, and have been tryna figure out how to make it a real account.

Yeah, I think that — if Gawker's email gets flooded with this shit, then more people will care enough to do something.

Also I just noticed my intentional misspelling of "terrorist" got corrected to "tourist."

Or just not allowing burners to post images.

What defense did they even offer?

Actually I think he just outed himself as another burner, bc someone on here WAS talking about anal rape pretty grossly/extensively. And also saying really anti-semitic shit in another thread. (I'm guessing he's the same as gaschamber9000)

On a hamburger?

What? A victim of violence's relative inability to fight back is pretty damn relevant, regardless of gender, whether you've got an MMA fighter and a petite woman or an armed cop and an unarmed teenager.

Because the NSA only uses data for IMPORTANT things, like defending 'Murica from them tourists and those pot-smokin' liberals!