Can we please stop referring to this as a "fake scandal"? It's real.

1. - Hundreds of conservative groups were targeted
2. - Applications were delayed for months and years
3. - Absurd, intrusive, unusual questions were asked: for membership lists, readings lists, the content of prayers (WTF?)
4. - 100% of the 501(c)(4) groups audited by IRS were conservative
5. - The IRS audited 10% of all Tea Party donors from the lists provided to the agency
6. - Meanwhile, Obama's campaign org OfA smoothly became a 501(c)(4), and still runs his Twitter feed. No partisan politics there!
7. - Obama's skeezy half-brother had his "charity" fast-tracked to 501(c)(3) status, despite years of illegal fundraising, and had those illegal actions approved retroactively.
8. - And all along, administration officials lied repeatedly: it was a rogue activity of a few people in Cincinnati, etc., and most recently, Congressional testimony that the IRS has all of the emails.

Richard Nixon could only dream of using the IRS like this. By now, only the willfully blind can consider this a "fake" scandal.

And yet Mexico has over triple the rate of tuberculosis, which makes me question the efficacy of those vaccination rates.

Nonsense. He knows what he sees in his work. He wasn't making an epidemiological statement, he was making an observational one: the TB cases he was seeing were disproportionately illegal immigrants. Observation is not necessarily "observational bias."

No, I just assume he's an expert on the characteristics of his patients and their diseases, because that's his job.

He worked at a free clinic, and was speaking from personal experience. I don't think a doctor has to be an epidemiologist in order to note what he sees.

Are you sure? A few years ago when I was rather ill I went to a doctor who decided I needed a chest X-ray to rule out tuberculosis, which he described as (IIRC) "common" in San Francisco. I expressed surprise, and he said it was due to illegal immigration. Of course, it might have been due to illegal immigration from Honduras, Guatemala, etc., but most illegals around here are from Mexico.

Earth to AC: The "California Regulators" mentioned in the first two words of the headline are not Republicans.

Another way the Chinese evade censorship is to use oblique terms and references, many of which are quite funny. The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is a compilation of them. (In Mandarin, "grass-mud horse" sounds very close to "fuck your mother" and is a way of evading and poking fun at censorship of vulgar content.)

Wrong. Tablet sales are down overall, not just Apple's (though a few minor brands are up a little).

Indeed. In fact her statement "when it runs into something, it doesn't hurt that much" is oddly ignorant: your vehicle running into something is part of the issue, but something running into you is the other part. You do not want to be in a "tiny bubble" when a truck or SUV or bus hits you.

I totally agree, but there's an important aspect that's unspoken. It's politically useful for the SJW (social justice warrior) types to group and stereotype men (at the same time they protest against stereotyping women and minorities). Their ideology depends on "group justice," a.k.a. "collective guilt," a fallacious concept because it destroys true (individual) justice. They want the state to do more than use true individual justice to solve individual problems as they arise. They want to remake society, and seek to do that by inventing concepts like "rape culture" and trying to elevate favored groups and denigrate unfavored groups, individual justice be damned.

Oh, please, not this "men depict women in unrealistic ways" trope again. It absolutely cuts both ways. Look at the covers of romance novels, every photo of a man in an ad in a women's magazine, the men in daytime soap operas, and pretty much in any other female-oriented media: do you see a lot of homely, short, overweight, and/or bald guys? No, you do not. Even the old guys are in shape and not bald. There is just as much "unrealistic," "sex object," under-representation of normal men in media aimed at women.

Not only that, but blaming (straight) men for women's body image issues is also bull. Straight men do not control women's fashion and the media that lives off of it.

You are not the first person to suspect that. From the link:

Really? Huh. Based on what happened to Brendan Eich, I thought their job was to promote same-sex marriage.