Posts by Jason Mustaain

Most employers in the healthcare industry require all staff to be fully vaccinated against everything possible, for reasons that are self-explanatory. These same reasons are what mark anti-vaxxers as not only willfully ignorant, but completely apathetic to the fact that they are capable of passing any variety of illnesses to those with weak immune systems...

Nextdoor neighbors can be a pain. They can block your driveway, blare loud music, steal your newspaper, etc. etc. Luckily, one married couple found themselves living next door to to the nicest gay couple on the planet. People on tumblr can’t get enough of their hilarious attempts to outdo one another and it’s sending some...

Gun control has very much remained a staple of the news cycle ever since last month’s Parkland school shooting, and that is a wonderful thing. While it used to be a topic of conversation that immediately died down within days following previous gun massacres (Sandy Hook, Pulse, Vegas, etc.), Americans are finally refusing to let...

Last Wednesday, students across the country walked out of school to protest school shootings and push for stricter gun control legislation. Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and other citifies all had large protests, as well as localities that had suffered school shootings including Littleton, Colorado, Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida. In many schools, students...

Ignited largely by a now-retracted and scientifically flawed study claiming tenuous links between the MMR and autism, and fueled by celebrities (Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Alicia Silverstone, to name a few) and probably Russian bots, parental aversion to immunizing children against common, vaccine-preventable diseases is on the rise. The Internet is making things much, much...

Today might be International Women’s Day, but the existence of this holiday doesn’t mean that we’re even close to achieving gender parity (regardless of how many of its arches McDonald’s flips upside down). If you need any further proof, just read the recent series of tweets from a concerned mom about her young daughter’s hesitation...

David Foster Wallace once gave a commencement speech where he told a story about a couple of young fish swimming along. They pass an older fish who says “Morning boys, how’s the water?” After they pass on for a bit one young fish turns to the other and says “What the hell is water?” The...

Social media is a double-edged sword. On one hand it has allowed Russian bots to destroy our democracy, has caused children to grow up emulating the Kardashians rather than spending time outside, has directly resulted in an increase in cyber bullying and a radical drop in self-esteem for a large portion of our youth. On...

There are few times in our lives when we’ll try to text one of our friends and accidentally text the wrong number. When this happens, we usually get a short response saying “wrong number,” or, no response at all. It’s rare that we’ll get a full conversation or a sincere reaction to the stranger on...

I think we can all agree that life’s stressful moments would be vastly improved by the presence of a helpful drag queen in a Disney princess gown. And now that I’ve seen a video of this very kind of hero in action, I’m even more certain of this statement. A few months ago, a blizzard...

Probably one of the worst ways someone can break up with you is over text, but what if you don’t know the person? This is what comedian Mike Primavera has been doing over the last year. Here’s what he had to say about his fun social experiment: “Honestly, I started doing it out of boredom....

If you’ve ever played sports you know sometimes in the heat of competition now and then someone deals with a wardrobe malfunction. It’s inevitable everyone is focused on winning and things get physical, so you never know when the crowd might get a little more than they pay for. For the most part, professional athlete’s...

Every year during the Super Bowl, a well-known and talented artist is asked to sing the National Anthem before the game. This year, Pink was invited to grace us with her insane talent and kick-off the game. Many were looking forward to this performance and were heartbroken to hear that she had actually come down...

So often in society, women are pinned against each other to drag each other down. But, when we have those moments where women team up to support each other and it seems as though nothing in the world is more powerful than girls who have each other’s back. After navigating Twitter and finding women who...

The biggest struggle for most Millennials is when they’re first starting out and obtain that entry-level job out of college. Most people joke about it, but there are harsh realities to moving out and starting a life. We all end up living paycheck to paycheck. It sounds like a running joke, but in reality, it’s...