We pay more for all drugs, pretty much. The pharmaceutical companies have very good lobbyists. Drugs that costs thousands of dollars here can be had for very modest prices elsewhere.

The Iraq regime had the money to pay for food and medicine. The sanctions specifically excluded humanitarian goods. That it chose not to is Hussein's fault.

It doesn't change the fact the world is in fact safer and has been getting that way for a very long time. There was something of an uptick 1960-90, but we've been back on a downward trend since then. Read Pinker's "Better Angles of our Nature." Lays out data from a whole lot of sources.

This is a photograph of a smart, no-nonsense, gets-things-done woman (regardless of the movie, or what was meant here - that's the vibe I'm getting). Those ladies rule my world. :)

I know the internet war stories about him are garbage, but who cares? I love the idea of Mr. Rogers, Baddass.

Injuries? You don't say:

I have a friend who twice has posted pictures of food he was eating while having lunch with me and/or lunch with me and some other friends. I thought it odd and just a little rude to post pictures of the food you are with but not the humans.

My "Bacon number" with Fidel Castro is 1. So I'm a 2 with a whole lot of really big deal folks. That and a few dollars will get me a coffee at Starbucks, lol.

Just before the show "Nashville" was announced, I had lunch at Noshville (a Nashville pseudo-deli) a couple tables over from Hayden Panettiere (impossibly perfect skin, btw) and some guy with incredibly manicured stubble.

Not that I agree with you but, your comment reminds me of this: Why Women are Stripey (and why all Calico cats are female):

He's got like the most awesome band. Because he's awesome, and who the hell doesn't want to play in Weird Al's band?

More evidence that a) be yourself unless b) you can be Batman - and if you can't be Batman c) be Weird Al. Because only Batman is cooler than Weird Al.

Here's the thing - classic rapist or avant-garde rapist, doesn't matter. Still a rapist — put 'em in jail, regardless.

There are some new vaccines. Plus, most vaccines were reformulated some years back, from whole virus/cell to certain anitgens in the target pathogen.

Jerk.

One of the great things about soccer is that any able-bodied person can not only learn to play it, they can get better. Of course, only gifted athletes who work like crazy rise to the top - easy to learn, hard to master. And it takes no special equipment, just a ball - and people are pretty clever about turning just…

All my ancestors got here before 1700 - and Coulter is an idiot.

Take a look at a map of the world. Most of South America is east of Florida. Recife is on almost the easternmost point.

You missed the part where I wrote "IF we had to do that...." Sheesh, I'm not that dumb.

I know a woman who was a Tea Party ultra (and a state legislator) before the term was even coined, and she was 100% her son got autism from mercury in vaccines. It's an idea that doesn't link strongly to political belief.