Yup, and I was a drama nerd.

Smoking pot in school != substance abuse problems

An apathetic teenager who smoked pot? Color me shocked. This can't stand!

Yes, yes, yes! I am tired of the horrible oppression Christians from the Midwest have had to endure for literally CENTURIES here in America! Especially the *rich* ones. Oh, what a horrible existence to have endured. I feel such secondhand shame now.

You can stop now, Midwestern Christians are not an oppressed group.

I totally agree with you and even though I think it's upsetting in a lot of ways... an ad saying "domestic violence is scary and exists" is totally necessary. People actually don't seem to believe DV and IPT are as common as they are/don't understand how hard it is to escape those situations. It would be better if the…

I was just talking about this with our pediatrician a couple of days ago. She said there are some doctors in the practice who refuse to accept patients whose parents don't vaccinate. She said she doesn't do that because she wants the chance to bring them around. She said that she tries to get them on board starting…

Don't worry, it's becoming more and more prominent that pediatricians will not allow un-vaccinated families in their practices. They have to go find their own quacks.

I think what she's getting at is that she wants to make sure that her pediatrician has a hardline stance on serious, life threatening issues like vaccination.

No one is punishing anyone. What she is doing is trying to keep her newborn baby from getting a deadly disease.

Congrats on the baby — PS make sure you and your dh are up to date with your vaccinations. I didn't know that I needed a pertussis booster before my son was born. I am not sure what is and isn't okay during pregnancy, but ask your OB and make sure your spouse gets up to date, too!

That's how I picked our pediatrician. Someone else at open house night asked about vaccines, and he replied that while they can accommodate alternative schedules, if you don't vaccinate at all, then it's not the practice for you. Sold!

Lately, I've been thinking through where I want to live when I finish up school and become a complete adult (because I'm at the point where New York is a garbage city and I want a damn yard and a dog), and the bay area is one I've been considering because I have family out there. But then, I know it's likely to be a…

More than just feel strongly about— something you're right about, and in a really serious, meaningful way. It isn't something undefinable, unprovable, or subjective. It's very definable, very provable, and not subjective at all.

Good for you. I'm an acupuncturist and I've lost clients because I urged them to get adult boosters and the pneumococcal & meningitis vaccine after an outbreak at a local college.

Anti-vaxxers make me absolutely BONKERS. I just cannot handle these types of people! And sorry, but your tenacious desire to maintain your delusions is not so sacrosanct that you should be allowed to put others at risk.

True story:

She short circuited when Karl Rove collided with reality live on air.

I like to think she's just been a sleeper agent all these years and finally got the go-ahead to break Fox news. It's a happy little fantasy world I live in!

Either her contract is up soon or her contract is bulletproof.