Clicking through those ideas, I'm reminded why I bring too much stuff when I travel. No one thinks adding a belt to a dress makes it look like a different outfit.

Squalor appears on Jezebel and Deadspin on alternating weeks.

I have read that when Jonas Salk announced that he had a polio vaccine that worked, church bells were rung in celebration. I cried when I read that. I cannot imagine the fear parents lived with.

Mom got polio a year before the vaccine came out. Had to have both hips replaced, limp her whole life, and she was incredible lucky. Hate those fucking anti-vaxxers.

Josh Brolin is a handsome dude but all I see now is this is the guy who beat Diane Lane.

Don't some areas in TX have anti-discrimination laws above what most states have? I heard a few larger cities had ordinances against discrimination based on sexuality.

"But the first thing we can do as consumers is to properly plan our diets according to our needs, rather than winging it or relying heavily on restaurants and eating out."

I remember being a kid in the 1950's. I remember that Jonas Salk was revered.

Awful, awful story. I don't care what the orientation of the girls was or where it happened. My daughter is gay and I love her more than the world, trying to call out Texas as something it is not to make this tragedy seem more poignant is wrong. The asshole who killed them will get something he deserves in Texas.

I just kept clicking through the pictures and being like, but that's the same outfit...

The things on her list add up to over $1800. For that amount of money, I could afford a different outfit for each day, plus the checked baggage fee. Also, she seems pretty confident that there aren't going to be any food spills on her three tops. And that it will be cool enough for a sweater or a jacket. Otherwise,…

Let's pretend for a moment that vaccines do cause autism (they don't but we are pretending to make a point.)

That would really have a lot of negative consequences, and largely end up hurting people further down on the socioeconomic ladder. There are actually a lot of systematic barriers contributing to this: people not having the funds for vaccines, or not having access to pediatricians who will give vaccines for affordable…

I really wish you'd structured that sentence in way I could've understood without having to read it over four or five times. Really helping your cause there.

The fear of measles and polio is gone from the anti-vaxxers. They're not scared that their children will end up needed crutches their entire lives, or an iron lung. But that's what's going to happen if we don't keep vaccinating!

yeah i'm sure that book you read debunks decades of medical science.

Vaccine PSA:

That's precisely WHY we vaccinate. Those kids who are too young and who contracted the virus did so because of kids who could have been vaccinated but whose parents refused. The kids who should be vaccinated are detracting from the herd immunity that keeps kids who are too young to be vaccinated safe.

Did you bring more cheeseburgers? I'd rather not climb all the way down and back up.

They tell me it'll catch up to me eventually, but for now I'm just going to sit up on Mount I-Eat-Garbage-24/7-And-Exercise-Maybe-Once-A-Week-And-Am-Still-Below-Average-Weight-For-My-Height with my stack of cheeseburgers.