Yeah, Hale just basically gave a completely justified excuse for reviewers to use fake names.

Well, that explains why the blogger was anonymous. Because apparently authors are fucking nuts.

I've seen that video. Hot dudes, poor production value.

I like how the cubs pretty much IMMEDIATELY figure out the ladder. Bears know climbing opportunities when they see them!

Okay bears, don't say we never did anything for you

We are most certainly not supposed to be blind to race.

OK but don't tell that to the people who come in to my "practice." That medical degree I drew on the back of a Star magazine is totally legit, too.

Right? As a pediatrician, my least favorite is when they claim that list includes being a "nurse" or a "pediatrician." No, you're not. It took us a lot of time and money and licensing to get those degrees. Putting a bandaid on a cut =/= health professional. STFU.

You're very right about that. I think the most compassionate coverage that I've seen from this outbreak so far was in the Frontline episode that aired a few weeks ago about it. They interviewed a married couple who were both infected and quarantined together and the level of concern that they had for themselves and…

To be fair, I think that he point of the picture of the little girl that was referenced in the original post was meant to shock readers and inspire compassion. I don't think that the photojournalist was taking those photos from the standpoint of a higher moral plane or arguing that the people of the region deserve…

I look at that picture and don't see the colonialism, racism, or any of that.

I know it's easy to say, "Oh, the West is the worst," but these kinds of "outsiders carry disease" attitudes aren't unusual to the big bad West. Japanese even today believe that HIV is a "foreigner disease" even though the HIV infection rate in Japan is on the uptick among Japanese themselves. These problems are…

Well, it's also fair to note that African countries, which are rich in resources but poor in government, have suffered under repeated invasion and pillaging from Western Imperialist nations, leaving them crippled in a way that has prevented them from developing as Western nations were able to.

As a longtime bleeding heart liberal, this article is so unbelivably self-serving and disingenuous.

Seriously. These images of children and dying and medical interventions and "invisible suffering" are not convenient metaphors for some writer, comfortable in her desk chair, to craft some moralistic allegory: they are the realities of this disease, of how it is handled in the US/Europe vs. Africa, of how medicine has…

It really is funny when they try this, isn't it? It's like watching me trying to write left-handed.

THIS IS WHY I KEEP TELLING YOU GUYS TEAM PIE. TEAM PIE FOR ALWAYS. CAKE IS BULLSHIT.

Troll harder.

Really? I'm probably two shades paler than her. I think she is gorgeous and I give her credit for embracing her natural skin tone. It continues to amaze me that fake tans are coveted. Melanoma is the fastest growing cancer in young people, by far.

As a guy that lives and breathes Cardinals baseball, I should've loved what happened there, but that was one of the most gut-wrenching things I've ever had to endure. I feel the same about the whole Cubs/Bartman thing too.