Do you choose online delivery for bills and financial paperwork ( Read more... )

( discussion of omgbeesity epidemic )

Kiera Wilmot is a 16 year old black girl who attends high school in Florida. While at school (not during school hours) she engaged in an extracurricular chemistry experiment that produces a small explosion and some smoke. No one was injured and no property was damaged. She was expelled from school and will now have to attend an expulsion program. ( Read more... )

This is not OK.

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/19/aclu-discovers-illegal-debtors-prisons-in-ohio/

Excerpts:A new report by the ACLU reveals that “debtors’ prisons” in Ohio. The phrase refers to the ( Read more... )

Imagine the subject line sung to the tune of "Chain of Fools."

( Contains mockery of fat hatred and sexism. Also contains the marvelous neologism ’thinsplain’. )

( contains mockery of the omgbeesity epidemic )

http://www.babybariatrics.com/

I just tried signing up again for Second Life. The first time, quite a while back, I gave up early in the process because I couldn't find a "last name" that I liked among the offered choices. Today I got farther into the form, but I ended up not signing up, because the form required me to specify a gender.

Why the fuck does SL care about my gender

NPR, All Things Considered, November 22, 2002:Despite its possibly deadly side effects, the diet aid [Metabolife 356] has racked up $1 billion in sales and remains a popular supplement for those looking for an energy boost or trying to lose weight.

November 5, 2007: Read more... )

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure9nov09,0,755599,print.story One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved ( Read more... )