Check with places like Walgreens or Krogers as well. I've gotten my vaccines for cheap there, and in the case of Krogers they put a $20 credit incentive on my Kroger's card for groceries. I wound up making money off getting vaccinated - it was weird.

I once read some really interesting stuff about how the brain is more inclined to rate things based on comparative information, rather than absolutes. So you have X, Y, and Z, and X is amazing, and Y and Z are lesser, but similar to each other. When Y is slightly better than Z, people will pick Y over X. Makes me…

The question of how to find out if you're being underpaid makes me wonder if the internet couldn't come to the rescue. Create a webpage where people could go register their age, industry, education, field of work, years at current employer, years of experience, gender, ethnicity, general location (midwest, east coast,…

My feelings on this sort of thing have been that if you care about an organization and believe it to be overall good, then you shouldn't feel compelled to leave because of one bad thing - rather, stay and try to reform it from within. But I'm an adult and I don't have kids, so it's easy for me to say that. Maybe you…

Whenever I read about these people I just have this mental image of someone running down the main street of some town yelling "THE GAYS ARE COMING! THE GAYS ARE COMING!" before swooning on the front steps of the courthouse.

I can't think of anything right now and I'm not sure I want to think of anything. This is the first mother's day since I came out to her and I'm just going to do the dutiful daughter thing, take her out for breakfast, and talk only about boring, safe topics. Then I'll go home and call my aunt and thank her for being…

So I was looking at that picture there thinking, 'what a happy picture to celebrate this!' Then I saw the guy in the background. Does he look like a super-villain to anyone else? I could see him in an Avengers or Batman movie.

I was raised in a 'gay marriage is wrong' household (though my father has really surprised me as of late to the point where I'm insanely proud of him). It's shit like this that first made me think that maybe there was something wrong with an anti-gay stance, then think that maybe I should be calling it bigotry, and…

I hate this meme. It annoys the hell out of me and people won't stop spamming it on their FB feeds.

This made me tear up. My girlfriend is transgender and it'd be nice to see more awareness and understanding about the issue. The reaction from my family when I told them we were dating was pretty ugly, I can't imagine having to go through that as the person who is transitioning. Laura is really brave and I hope she…

You doing the veggies CSA? I thought about that one, but I was afraid I'd get more than I'd eat and it'd go bad. How has it turned out for you? I figure with the meat, I can at least freeze it. Even with the one-person plan I'm going to have meat leftover when I get my next shipment. Mine was $295 for biweekly…

I'm slowly edging my way into that camp as well. Just got my first shipment of meat from a farming collective - oh my. Oooooh my. That stuff was killed the day before I got it and it is absolutely delicious with almost no fat on the meat. Having dinner at a friend's has spurred me to plant my own garden and I'm…

Wow. This should be held up as a glowing example of why voter participation is important. I wonder what the result would be if there was 100% turnout. (I'm an optimist, I'd like to believe it wouldn't have passed)

I'm not sure if I can stick to my resolve of controlling portion sizes with this coming out.

Auugh. This is so wrong. I saw a pastor on TV yesterday during lunch that was talking about this issue - I was ready to start cringing because I'm so sick of hearing people use faith as a cover for their evil. Then I realized the pastor was against the ban and framed the issue not as a moral one, but as the…

What I love is that Loki got his comeuppance repeatedly. We were talking after the movie about if any Avenger didn't get to beat the snot out of him. I think Captain America is the only one - yeah, they went head-to-head, but Loki was getting the upper hand until Iron Man showed up. Iron Man got to blast him, Thor…

I had to look up what the word means. The tone of voice conveyed it was something pretty bad though, and I must say that I'm not terribly bothered by its usage. Loathsome villain says vile thing to character, makes impending comeuppance that much sweeter. As much as I loved cheering for Loki (I have a soft spot for…

I will bawl the day I have to give up driving for myself, but yes. This. I love driving, I hate the idea of having an autonomous car, but dang. It's gotta happen.

I'm guessing that it doesn't actually take that much speed to hurt someone. I had a coworker that was hit while stopped at a red light on his motorcycle by a lady who wasn't paying attention and even though it was a very low-speed accident - not even above 10 mph - he still wound up on the hood of her car. …

The xkcd forum thread on PUA was brilliant a while back. So many people trying to intelligently defend PUAism. It all boiled down to, "I deserve to get laid." No. No you don't.