Yes, they are. My kids got polio vaccines within the last year.

I agree wholeheartedly, but let's also remember that the paranoia has some basis in fact. The United States used fake public health workers delivering "polio vaccines" to obtain the DNA of children in the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan. There has been an enormous backlash against legitimate public health officials…

Any discussion of a global resurgence of polio MUST include the fact that US intelligence officials posed as public health officials in Pakistan as part of their reconnaissance to secure Osama Bin Laden, going so far as to secure DNA samples from children in the compound under this ruse.

I genuinely don't think any of those coffee orders are particularly ridiculous. I mean, a half caff soy latte is a pretty standard drink order. Or maybe I'M the asshole?

That makes a lot of sense. If you had written a book about your experiences with FGC, though, and were on a book tour to promote that book, you would probably expect questions about it.

I agree completely that questions about bodies and surgeries need to end, but Mock's book is titled, in part, "My Path to Womanhood." The official book jacket says it is a book about growing up as a trans girl.

When you write a book explicitly about your experience growing up trans and transitioning to womanhood,…

I agree. I'm just waiting for this group of (geographically proximate) acquaintances to suffer a full-blown measles epidemic. I just hope no one dies or is seriously injured.

The vaccine denialists in my peer group think that getting "wild measles" is better for you because it confers lifelong immunity rather than having the immunity wear off and needing a booster like the MMR. I honestly do not know if that is true, but that's the line being given out in the anti-vax community.

I'm pretty sure it is Charles Manson.

This is strange to me, having been to Japanese restaurants where your only choice is to dine alone. You sit in a booth, and your ramen comes through a small door. Like this:

My issue isn't the religion, obviously. But his track record on "education reform" and union-busting give me pause.

So...how would you suggest Secretary Clinton participate in the presidential debates if you are only happy with photos from 2006?

Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars sums up the progressive beef with Booker: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/n…

I love how you capitalize CHILDREN even though this men are in their 20s.

Ah. He was an associate at some DC-based real estate thing, the Co-Star Group.

I hope that Jez and other outlets put their full names in the text of the articles, because right now they won't show up in a future Google search because the names are in .pdfs rather than in the text of the article.

These guys are wicked easy to find. I'm guessing this is one, judging by the age and the fact that this YouTube video is an application to Tufts in 2010:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sam-stern/…

This one looks promising.

Agreed. It's not that I doubt a person could have a miscarriage and not have other find out, it's that I doubt that this one person (a known addict in the middle of a relapse) had a miscarriage. It's basically the perfect excuse. Private, people give you the benefit of the doubt, and you don't have to show any…

Twitter is basically the only way to get help from Delta. They actively push their customer issues to that platform, rather than phone. The problem is that you have to Tweet at them with your problem to get them to "follow" you so that you can have a conversation and get a resolution to your problem. It's a pain,…