I really do think that the lack of communication is a big thing. I have encountered MD's with the "God complex" and the attitude that I know nothing and they are all knowing, who don't take the time to engage my concerns and treat me as a partner in my own health care, who just talk over me and use the "you can't…

I love me some Phil Plait. He can usually be counted on to display some compassion and thoughtfulness where it is sorely needed.

I just lease them from Feed The Children. The rates are reasonable.

I understand. I used to think that most people were generally reasonable and willing to learn. I've never been more wrong. I wish it wouldn't continue to disappoint me though, I'd love to get over it.

I was one of the kids who had a severe reaction to the MMR vaccines. Had a pretty bad fever from the vaccination when I was one, and have permanent hearing loss in both ears as a result. It was one in a million, but it does happen.

No, that was her abortion.

"The state doesn't own your children, parents own their children, and it is an issue of freedom."

The state doesn't own your children, parents own their children

"...The state doesn't own your children, parents own their children, and it is an issue of freedom." - Rand Paul

Parents do not own their children. That's just a really weird and disturbing way of looking at parenthood. It's also not all that backed up by law or logic. I can sell my tv on Craigslist and yet those who have tried to do the same with children have found that the law frowns upon it and will put them in jail for it.…

GOD ISIS IS JUST GOING TO FUCK THIS SHIT ALL UP NOW ALL THESE FUCKNUTS ARE GOING TO BE LIKE WELL IF ISIS DID IT IT IS BAD

Please don't. People in the land of God, guns, grits, and gravy do not masturbate. Ever.

Any time I hear that one partner feels the other partner's sexual desire or functioning is gross or boring I know that relationship is going to end up being very difficult for at least one if not both of those people.

Really? You known the police get called on your friends for being too aggressive in their romantic pursuits? Tell us more!

as much as it pains me to say this: Johnson's right. this woman spends way too much time taking people - other women, specifically - to task for failing to live up to moral standards which she herself cannot uphold. if her online persona wasn't so relentlessly moralistic, Johnson wouldn't have even bothered with this.…

I'm glad that you mentioned the death penalty for drug smugglers being well pulicized in Indonesia, because that reinforces an important point about why death penalty is not only inhuman, but also useless: it doesn't work as a deterrent to crime. If it did, Indonesia, US, Japan, Saudi Arabia, China, etc., would be…

Ir's the 21st Century. there's nothing "racist" about pointing out things that should not be practiced any more. I agree that the United States should probably do away with the death penalty, but this article is NOT about the United States.

un, yes, we can still decry our own shortcomings while pointing out other's. Especially when the others are taking place in a country where the human rights record makes the ferguson PD look like the mother-loving justice league.

Well, and wasn't there a guy in Oklahoma recently who had a botched execution that took over 20 minutes before they stopped giving him drugs and about 40 minutes before he died? And a guy in Ohio who had pretty much the same thing happen also recently? A botched beheading isn't any worse than a botched lethal…

Definitely. This is awful, but the United States executed 35 people last year and 3 so far this year. Is state-sanctioned murder okay then if it's done behind closed doors with poison?