Well, maybe destigmatize depression and stigmatize a lot of the precipitants. Lots of people are chemically depressed, and that depression can be compounded by bullying, very public humiliation, workplace failures, etc. The signs aren't hard to read, but we often find it easier to simply ascribe frequent symptoms to,…

I must have the iron man of livers, because I took 3 Tylenol on top of alcohol throughout college, frequently more than 2x/week. It was, I thought, a miracle hangover preventative, because, well, Jesus, could I put’em down in my younger years. Fast forward 20 years later and desperately having my liver function tested…

We still seem to have a level of comfort paying $20 "service fees" for electronic tickets when there's really been no quantifiable "service" rendered, so this isn't much of a surprise.

I think the community has dropped the ball a bit in how it responds to this sort of attack. While it’s easy to note the homo/trans phobia implicit in the bill, it’s foolish to respond with statements that dismiss the concerns of aadvocates of the bill without proposing some reasonable accommodation.

The league is printing money thanks to the cognitive dissonance of American football fans, who simultaneously decry the danger of the sport and watch it unreservedly. I don’t think it can last as a massively proftabl entity.

When you consider that women carried not only snuff boxes, but also wore perfume lockets or buttons to buffer the odors of others (they were weird about applying perfume directly to skin, and perfume was far more oily and long lasting than present incarnations of the substance), it’s pretty obvious that the Victorians…

OF COURSE people smelled. Their outer clothes came into contact with things we can’t even begin to contemplate. Animal and human excrement mixed with mud...that’s what they walked through, all the goddamned time. There was no way to insulate one’s self from the great unwashed, nor any way to actively distinguish one’s…

The problem is that at 18, we’re not immediately gifted with maturity either. We can go to war and die, but can’t buy beer. We can vote, but might not be able to buy tobacco. We can become police and be charged with protecting the public welfare. But somehow, sex and intoxicants are considered a danger.

Sure. She was 21. She pursued him, We can argue the morality of his choices as related to his marriage and as an employer, but he did not make sex a condition of her employment. The sex didn’t matter then and doesn’t now. It’s worthwhile to note that the most vociferous critics of Clinton were themselves engaged in…

I rather hesitantly write this, prefaced by a qualification that I do NOT endorse men and young girls having sex.

Kanye West is a narcissistic asshole. Fuck him. Go Phils!

He’s an asshole who’s found out that his self-authored mythology can’t compete with reality. The narcissism required to ask for “prayers” in regard to debt he foolishly incurred is nothing short of astounding.

Since the first step of cleaning a gun is clearing it and removing ammunition, you should have just gone with, “He shot himself fucking around.” He wasn't cleaning anything.

We do have SLP to thank for Marco Rubio’s boots, even though they were knock offs.

Depending on where you are, there’s plenty of tribalism and ethnic stereotyping in Africa. It’s not a black Utopia, as any of the worst genocides and civil wars in recent decades will attest. Just like anywhere else, American black people are be treated differently in African countries because of their very…

Europe colonized Africa. Europeans were responsible for the slave trade. Africa wasn’t completely de-colonialized until the 1970's. So, racism manifests in different ways in Europe. It’s classist first, then everything else. Shit, Europeans don't even like other Europeans. American women are considered easy by…

I’m a pro-choice dude. Pregnancy is the default propagation method. Women evolved to carry babies; the physiologic changes a woman undergoes during (and as a result of) pregnancy are a direct result of that evolution. Knowing what they are doesn’t increase or decrease the risk; pregnancy carries the same endemic risks…

Without defending the city (at all) the pettiness of the process is precisely why it's automated. His was one of hundreds or thousands of line items that ran through a software platform.

It’s an Irish name, best suited to Irish people. I know all sorts of Liams that will never be considered hipster, and not just because they’re big and lack skinny jeans and beards; their parents’ didn’t name them Liam because it sounded cool.

You condition for your sport. But, tons of NFL’ers get into triathlons and other endurance sports after football to keep the motor running and the heart healthy.