Recent Comments

1. about 2 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   This was a disturbing thread until I got here. Thank you. I just wish you were closer to the top.

2. about 2 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Newspapers and other media are not held responsible for anything they print unless they print libel and the subject of the libel chooses to sue them.

   There’s no law that requires the media to be truthful or accurate, except libel law.

   Section 230 protects the platform. It does not protect the user who chooses to post libelous content.

   Non-libelous falsehoods are up to the reader to discern in either case. This is why fact-checkers are in business.

3. almost 7 years ago on Mom's Cancer

   This. This. ThisThisThis.

   Oncologists are sadists. There’s no other explanation.

4. about 7 years ago on Freshly Squeezed

   Someone just needs to smack her.

5. about 7 years ago on FoxTrot

   They’ve been doing stuff like this since 1997, and for all that, some people still manage to believe it’s hostile.

6. about 7 years ago on Baldo

   Do they get paid for free subscribers?

7. over 7 years ago on Li'l Abner

   +1

8. about 8 years ago on Bloom County 2019

   @Night-Gaunt49

   Mayfly nymphs live for a couple of years in the water. The next stage is subimago, which is quite brief. The final stage is imago, which lasts just long enough to mate and lay eggs. (In one subspecies, about 5 minutes.)

9. over 8 years ago on Mom's Cancer

   Chemobrain is a brain injury. Think of it as a TBI (traumatic bran injury) without the physical trauma. While some people have marked improvement by the end of chemo or the first year after chemo, many others suffer the effects for 5, 10, 20 years and more.

   Moreover, chemobrain is not only caused by chemo. Surgery, radiation, targeted therapies and hormonal therapies also play a role. What is truly surprising, but backed by current research, is that cancer itself causes chemobrain.

   We, the afflicted, have to fight hard to obtain even minimal therapy for what turns out to be a devastating after-effect. Although there has been some improvement in oncologists’ group-think, they still don’t quite get the everyday impact of the brain damage caused by cancer and its treatment. Nonetheless, the research progresses, so we may eventually at least be taken seriously.

10. over 8 years ago on Angry Little Girls

    I’m not so sure about “propaganda” and “a lot to answer for.”

    Two of the happiest years of my life were spent living in a tent. (This was by choice, which is key to the joy of such a decision. Choosing to live reduce one’s lifestyle to a defined minimum is a far cry from enforced poverty. )

    I did have running water (showers, toilets) and a place to cook and store food, so I wasn’t exactly roughing it. I just didn’t have a lot of “stuff.” I didn’t miss the stuff, and I loved how its absence made me feel light and free.