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Apr 17 Kalakalot commented on Eden Foods President Responds to Contraception Controversy.

Example #558 of why having employers provide health insurance is just asking for trouble.

Apr 12 Kalakalot commented on Wisdom Tooth Weekend: Songs For Percocet and Pain.

Woman, I feel your pain. I got all four taken out at once a few years ago. I was in my early 30s, which is apparently old when it comes to wisdom tooth extraction. The conscious sedation was freaky -- I KNOW I must have said some weird shit -- and it hurt like a mother. I looked like the elephant man for days afterward, way longer than I thought.

You've got the soft foods part down. Now get yourself one of those freezer gel packs designed to strap around your waist for back pain. You are going to strap it around your head and it is going to make the swelling feel much better. A snuggly animal is a great comfort as well.

Apr 11 Kalakalot commented on Exciting Booze News: A New Bar from the Owner of Liberty!.

@1 and @4: A place that aims to be like "going to your friend's house and having a drink" has to got to called Fraternity. Though I can see how that could be misinterpreted.

Mar 28 Kalakalot commented on Now Open.

Harbour Pointe? Sounds like a shoddily-built McMansion subdivision or a highway-adjacent motel. Ugh, enough with the extra U's and E's.

Mar 27 Kalakalot commented on Will You Accept an Old Veronica Mars?.

Yes, I will accept an "old" Veronica Mars. (Jesus, I must be freaking ancient if 27/28 seems not particularly old to me.)

Other types of Veronica Mars(es) I will accept: lucha libre, black, disco, pregnant, riot grrl, pre-adolescent, Russian, flapper, fat, and steampunk.

I guess I'm just a very accepting person.

Mar 22 Kalakalot commented on This Morning a Man Told Me to Smile....

@50 We're not talking about smiling at a stranger because you're radiating inner peace or whatnot. There's nothing subservient about smiling because you're in a good mood. We're talking about a stranger telling you what to do with your body. It may seem innocuous, but trust me, after fifth or thirtieth or hundredth time a stranger decides they're entitled to comment on your appearance and tell you what to do with your face, you'd be pissed too. But that doesn't mean I'm a bitter hag. Believe or not, just because I get angry about something doesn't mean I don't "see [my} live in a positive and hopeful manner."

Mar 22 Kalakalot commented on This Morning a Man Told Me to Smile....

Assuming you haven't been asked by passers-by to take their picture, it's sexist and creepy as fuck to command someone to smile.

It may not seem like a big deal if you haven't experienced it yourself, but take it from somewhere who's been there many, many times: it's not cute and it's not sweet; it's a power play. You don't see men telling other men to smile, do you? Can you imagine? "Hey bro ... smile!" "Dude, you'd so much cuter if you smiled!"

However, one of the benefits of getting older is that men are a lot more concerned about the facial expressions of fresh young women than haggard middle-aged ladies. As a grumpy teenager, I was told to smile at least once a week. Now that I'm a grumpy lady pushing 40, it happens maybe once a year.

Mar 20 Kalakalot commented on Do You Want Me to Have Healthcare With That? Why Raising Restaurant Prices in Seattle Will Not End Society as We Know It.

Yes, a thousand times yes. But I'm not sure why the author assumes that the people he's serving "usually have 100 percent employer-paid health coverage." My employer is well-known for its excellent benefits package, but they don't pay anywhere close to 100 percent of my health insurance costs. An highly unscientific survey of friends and relations with "traditional" full-time jobs pay between 20 and 100 percent of their health insurance premiums; I don't know anyone who pays nothing.

No doubt about it, healthcare is especially fucked up when it comes to people don't have your standard full-time job with a benefits-providing employer. But it's also fucked up for those of us who are supposedly in the best possible position: insured, decent health plan, no congenital health issues, etc. It is absolutely fucking ridiculous that the majority of people who declare bankruptcy in this country due to medical issues have health insurance. This is important because it demonstrate that healthcare isn't just an issue for some people. It's an issue for every single one of us, and we should be all pissed when we hear a purveyor of $14 burgers say that customers should take the extra 3 to 5 percent on their tabs out of the server's tip.

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Mar 8 Kalakalot commented on "At some point in life, everyone has gambled on a fart and lost.".

A friend (no, really!) pissed herself on a first date. She was in the front seat of dude's car after a having had a few beers, laughed really hard at something he said, and then -- urine trouble now! -- pee all over the place. She was mortified, but he took it in stride, offered her some sweat pants he had in the back seat, and they continued the date. They've been married for almost 20 years now.

Feb 27 Kalakalot commented on Marshall Sahlins, Still Kicking Ass (Or, Shakeup at the National Academy of Sciences).

I remember reading Chagnon's famous book (Yanomamo: The Fierce People) in an undergrad anthropology class. Even though my bullshit detector was a lot less finely calibrated back then, I remember thinking, "Wow, this guy really thinks he's the shit" and "Hey, I didn't think anthropologists were allowed to be racist."