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4:17 PM

blip commented on The Wednesday Morning News.

@33, "a sensitive and clinically practical diagnostic indicator of obesity remains elusive" =/= "we do not even have a real measure to define obesity"

2:11 PM

blip commented on The Wednesday Morning News.

@26, Calling something a disease does not imply one cause / one solution (see: cancer, heart disease). And we have legit ways of measuring and quantifying obesity (and I am not referring to BMI).

I am sure there are plenty of valid reasons why it's problematic to call obesity a disease, but you're way off course here.

12:59 PM

blip commented on GOP Congressman: We Have to Ban Abortion Because Fetuses Are Masturbating In There.

Would it br fair to assume that these people are cool with abortion before fetuses start touching themselves? No?

Okay, how about publicly funded birth control, so it is accessible to women who can't afford birth control (or, you know, babies)? Or mandated coverage for health insurance? Those are bad too, huh? Hmm.

What about welfare then? You know, government assistance so women can feed and care for these children they weren't planning for? I seeeee....

Sorry, ladies. Keep it zipped!

5:10 PM yesterday

blip commented on The Song I Listened to Over and Over Again After I Had My Heart Broken for the First Time.

There was no specific incident that triggered it other than the general angst of pre-coming-out queerness, but The Smiths really delivered the goods for a couple years in my late teens. Almost their entire discography is applicable, though "How Soon Is Now?" captured the awkward / outsider weirdness of those days, while "This Charming Man" was vaguely empowering, like feeling *this close* to letting go and being free, or at least accepting it as a possibility.

3:48 PM yesterday

blip commented on "Is abortion a social good?".

@4, If anything the Freakonomics guys took heat for their methodology. This is a different shade if the Freakonomics question, and addresses it more directly.

Freakonomics linked abortion laws to crime stats by time -- i.e they noticed a drop in crime about 20 years after Roe. This is much more rigorous in that they are looking at maternal outcomes for individual women who got abortions vs women who were turned away, which is the ideal control group, albeit one that is difficult to identify and recruit since there aren't records of these things.

2:08 PM yesterday

blip commented on Gun Nuts and Chickpeas.

@10, See @9. They want the police to frisk the brown people without cause and confiscate *their* guns. Technically the Constitution wasn't meant to apply to them anyway, so.

1:58 PM yesterday

blip commented on Are You Fucking Kidding, Kanye?.

I was intrigued by his SNL performance, which sounded obnoxious live but hinted that the studio recordings might be interesting. I suspect his lyrics will remain insufferable tho.

1:22 PM yesterday

blip commented on NOT EVEN JOKING: Michelle Shocked Is Playing 2013 San Francisco Pride.

She's not part of the official lineup (hail satan) but she is most certainly gunning for professional victimhood status here. She is already mocking SF Pride over the Bradley Manning / Grand Marshall thing. Negative attention is what she seeks. And this Vogt twerp is insinuating there is nothing in it for him because his papers are all free. These people are the absolute worst, co-opting pride for their own publicity in the tackiest manner imaginable. Fuck 'em all to shreds.

12:56 PM yesterday

blip commented on NOT EVEN JOKING: Michelle Shocked Is Playing 2013 San Francisco Pride.

Gross. Just gross. This is being coordinated by the same media conglomorate that just bought the ultra-progressive Bay Guardian and ousted its editor of 30 years. That was bad enough but this little stunt makes me even more queasy. Fuck these people forever.

Jun 17

blip commented on When Domestic Violence Becomes a Mass Shooting.

@78, What? If you want to actually understand this topic on its own terms, go to www.pubmed.gov, type in "domestic violence" and have at it. It is not my responsibility nor my concern to educate you.