I’ve had students like that. You catch them with a phone in the midterm, and they’ll deny it even while they’re still holding the phone. Then they’ll say they were just holding it. Then you look at the phone and they clearly were Googling the answers to a question. Then they claim they were looking at that BEFORE…

This story is such a great testament to both the emotional and the monetary costs of having uninsured people. It is cheaper to treat stage 1 colon cancer than stage 4. It is better for the economy to have people starting small businesses, launching successful freelance careers, etc. without having to worry about…

Wasn’t there a study awhile back that found that 99% of NBA players cheated, and basically Derek Fisher was the only one who didn’t?

Fentanyl is so, so dangerous. Where I live, it’s found its way into a wide range of street drugs to the point that the whole supply is tainted. They declared fentanyl overdoses a public health state of emergency last year but even after giving out tons of naloxone kits, 922 people died of fentanyl overdoses last year,…

I’m a person with a disability. I know tons of people with disabilities who are writers who have passionately written on this subject. Yet the only thing that ever seems to be published are the “my brother/uncle/mom is disabled” pieces. Not to bash the piece, but I really wish that Jezebel would publish posts by the…

Lindsay Lohan has one religion and that is getting attention.

There are plenty of good morning sickness treatments, such as Diclectin. There are also treatments that can be given in the hospital, along with IV fluids. Morning sickness can be really dangerous, so no one is telling women to suffer in silence. They’re just saying....don’t smoke weed, because it’s been linked to…

This doesn’t surprise me. If you lurk long enough on internet pregnancy forums, you’ll see tons of posts of women being like “Smoking weed during pregnancy is okay, right?” and everyone responds being like “Nope! It’s a bad idea!” and then the person gets super defensive, mentions thalidomide and how weed is better…

The prevalence of sexual abuse against young elite athletes is sadly so common. Several studies have found that between 20 - 30% of elite athletes will experience sexual abuse in a sports setting. Among all children participating in sport, that number is between 2 - 8%.

Aaaand, here’s what $14 million gets you in stupid Vancouver. I bet France has nicer weather!

“Wrong place” = the vagina of a woman who did not consent.
“Wrong time” = the time when she did not consent.
Fixed that for you there, pops. 

I think it deserves mentioning that there are different types of CST. I have an incredibly painful disease that causes my joints to lose blood supply and eventually collapse. When I was waiting for a hip replacement, my femoral head collapsed and started coming part way out of the socket (subluxing). I was in agony.…

I’m from Canada, but at our last provincial election I was listening to these girls who were trying to ask the polling volunteers what different parties stood for. The polling volunteers were not allowed to help them, so then they were trying to figure it out for themselves by name alone. For context, there are three…

I’d watch the hell out of this. But you know what I’d really watch the hell out of? More episodes of The Supersizers, featuring Sue Perkins and Giles Coran. God, I loved that show.

I’d rather just watch Episodes, where I could see him play ‘Matt LeBlanc acting in a bad sitcom’ on a good sitcom!

Putting aside the obvious ethical and legal implications of this, how do corporations like Subway and TLC think that this behaviour is a good marketing strategy? Once you get the 5th “this guy’s a pedophile” complaint, doesn’t someone in the room say, “Uh, hey guys, does anyone think that using an evil predator as…

I keep typing out responses and deleting them, but what is there to say? My heart breaks for that little girl.

Everything Dylan has done in his career has been built around giving no fucks. Christian album? Why not! Album called ‘Love and Theft’ that intentionally plagiarizes 17th century samurai texts? Why not! Stoned cover of ‘See you later aligator?” Sure! Art film with Joan Baez where everyone wears masks? Let’s do it!

In my parent’s house, there are framed photos of two very sad women. One is my great grandmother, who stopped speaking for 2 years when her daughter died after falling down a well. The other is my great great aunt, who died of a botched abortion when she was 17. It’s never been a family secret or a morality tale, just…

I find it so weird when someone read all about a time in history...and then wants to live in that time. Like, I love Victorian hair jewelry. I wish that I could gain some social capital by carving ice cream to look like a swan and serving it at a dinner party. But because I’ve read a lot about the Victorian era there…