Even they understand you can't let this stand, because then anyone with a so-called moral or religious objection can break any damn law they want. It would mean the literal breakdown of law and order. Bigoted though they are, they can see this isn't worth the total destruction of civil society.

So Kim will just use her and Kanye’s truckloads of money and buy it and wear it anyway, right? I mean fuck this guy and his “oh we don’t give out stuff to the poors.” I don’t have a ton of love for the Kimye, but they’re American royalty love ‘em or leave ‘em and they don’t need you to *give* them anything.

I’ve seen invitations to Jack and Jill parties- the *cover fee* of which was meant to pay for the bride and groom’s $30k wedding and honeymoon. *I* didn't have a 30k wedding nor did I get to go on any kind of a cool honeymoon. I'm sure as hell not paying for someone else to be a princess for a day.

Classical’s alright. I had my son almost two years ago via emergency csection with undiagnosed type 3. Other than needing the csection in the first place, I was totally fine and healed up nicely. It's the combination of vascular + 49 + pregnancy that's super insanely incredibly dangerous. I'm surprised she made it to…

Mahala! :-)

It's a heritable collagen defect that causes extremely weakened blood vessels in the case of the vascular type. Being pregnant at all at 49 is high risk. Being pregnant with vascular at 49 is pretty much suicidal. I have EDS type 3, for reference.

I try to remember that Esther and other folks her age are from a way, waaaaaaay different generation- who’s social struggles includes even admitting the existence of gay people, whether divorce was acceptable, and women’s lib. I don’t want to veer into moral relativism, but the fact that she’s trying sets her apart…

The Breaking Bad episodes of mythbusters were so instructive!

It’s interesting you mention this, because only recently we’ve started to hear about an emerging Westeros national identity. As opposed to noble lineages with feudal fiefdoms and loyalty as bannermen to whoever the big dog of the region is. We’re also starting to see the erosion of chivalric valor, as exemplified by…

Jem is Lady Gaga? But in a girl group like the Spice Girls? And not actually interesting in any way? This reads like some 80 year old studio exec rounded up the first five vague things he could remember about pop music from the last thirty years and then ordered the directors to slap some pink face paint on it and…

Thank you. The linguistics of disease, chronic or terminal, are riddled with implicit judgments about fault and individual character. Sometimes people choose not to treat their disease, and that's fine, but the people who try their damnedest to get well and can't aren't failures.

I just reread your top comment in the tone he said, “You are off the reservation!” Gotta admit, it made it even more awesome.

do you even Facebook? Half the posts on my newsfeed are whacko conspiracy theories. Which possibly says more about the people on my friends list, but I think it's a great time in history for some paranoid as hell science fiction. Edward Snowden and Prism? The surveillance state? Hell, the Koch brothers and their…

Holy crap, Mulder as a crypto-terrorist alien hunter. I would watch the HELL out of that show. I still will anyway, regardless of what they do, but I admit my heart leapt at the idea of Mulder being a badass and blowing shit up fairly indiscriminately.