If there were prn narcotics in the orders it's reasonable they would use them if the patient was showing signs of pain. Nurses can't change the available order list and it's not reasonable to expect them to pass a preference like that down by word of mouth from shift to shift. If the patient isn't supposed to have X…

I'm no expert on plumbing, but, um, seriously? You actually believe that the toilet is plumbed into an entire separate sewage system than the rest of the house's wastewater output? Really? You honestly believe that we have a whole third set of pipes so that poo water doesn't mix with shower water?

Not true! All your waste water goes to the same place. A septic tank is a rural thing, for those of us not connected to city water. We have personal septic tanks, dug on our properties, and we have them pumped every couple of years. A big truck comes and pumps out our sewage and sends it to the city treatment system.…

It saves water. In plenty of places, water is a precious and expensive enough resource not to waste on false perceptions of cleanliness. You're not a germ freak by any chance, are you? A little bacteria now and then is good for you. Maybe your brothers pissed up the side of the shower, but if you pee while under a…

I definitely see the point you're making and respect your clear, well written articulation of it. But I also disagree.

You say the statement hurts the rhetorical strategy by implying that she's a neutral party with no personal opinions regarding the topic. But as you said (and I agree with), everyone on the planet…

Nurses are required to treat patient reports of pain. Family members do not get to decide no pain medicine for a family member. I can only imagine that someone on "death's door" is probably in a fair amount of pain.

I've read some pretty awesome responses to this type of thing arguing that what they really are afraid of is being mainstreamed - that the idea of video game culture being a hated thing gives them an excuse to not be cool or to be disliked or not get women or to hate other people - and as it becomes more inclusive and…

You're arguing a tiny, negligible point but claim to agree with the article. Then why are you claiming this tiny, unimportant point is a problem? Is that really the hill you want to die on?

Concerned troll is concerned, guys.

It's not her neutrality in regards to this article. Here, she's obviously taking a hard, though I'd say pretty spot-on, stance. That was in regard to the process of her research, which is neutral, or as neutral as it can be, and peer-edited, to form the basis for the rest of her project.

I feel like this entire comment thread and the reaction to this episode is why some people get that (stupid) knee jerk reaction that the "yes means yes" laws getting passed will RUIN SEX FOREVERRRR. Because some of these comments and the fear that Mindy was somehow "violated" by her boyfriend poking her b-hole with…

And you know she was penetrated because...? So many of these comments reveal far more about the person posting them than I think people realize.

Yeah, that doesn't work. :( Figuring out why a student does things, or doesn't do them, is important. When classroom teachers want to use behavior plans just to bitch to parents about what their kid did wrong today, I try to get them to see that it isn't helpful, because a) The parent is not at school, you are, teach…

Of course it is normal, talking about things beforehand isn't absent from my own relationship. I am not saying this wasn't a valid conversation about consent. I think the real teachable lesson is that stopping to ask or discussing things prior to isn't going to ruin the sexiness of what is happening. Personally, I…

Dunham has never stumbled upon a topic of conversation that she couldn't turn within four sentences into a point about how clever/awesome/special she is.

You guys. I get why I'm supposed to stop hating Lena Dunham so much. She gets a disproportionate amount of criticism for being outspoken and not having Hollywood looks and being brave enough to present female antiheroes and so on. But why does she have to be so awful all the time? "I'm not crazy, it's the world that's…

And Sriracha Ranch is the bastard child of condiment abusers nationwide.

I actually just loathe Sriracha in all forms. One drop is enough to ruin whatever I'm trying to eat.

I maintain that there is nothing good about Sriracha, both because it just makes whatever you put it on taste like Sriracha (as you point out), and because the taste of Sriracha sucks anyway. I held a party to celebrate* when that Lays Sriracha flavor lost out on becoming permanent last year.