Greetings from Chalmette, La.
Hi there — just a quick drop-in to let you know that I’m in Louisiana, at the base camp from where my Habitat group is operating to gut houses in St. Bernard Parish. I don’t get much internet time, so I have to make this quick. Very hard work, very tiring day. The homeowner was [...]
...read more“Sexist, Egotistical, Lying, Hypocritical Bigot Edition”
“9 to 5″ is finally coming out on DVD! Years after being fired for refusing to sleep with her boss, Jane Fonda — empathizing with harassed women everywhere — developed a popular 1980 film called 9 to 5, about sexism in the workplace. The comedy arrives on DVD Tuesday (Fox, $20) in what is being [...]
...read moreNervosa
So, as you know, Jill put up an interesting post about ED and obesity, and I wanted to reply. I had an eating disorder for a little over five years. I exercised compulsively. I starved myself. I binged and purged (by the time I was nearly through, my tolerance for food was so low that [...]
...read moreSuggestion Box
So I wanted to follow up on the post about better linking habits, but wanted to make sure I was alert enough to do it. Before I get started: I’m a big luddite. (“What is this Hy Par Text of which you speak?”) If something doesn’t sound right here or in future, it probably isn’t. [...]
...read moreMisunderstanding Anorexia
Writing about eating disorders can get frustrating when so many people just don’t seem to know what they’re talking about.
...read moreWhat I’m Reading Today
I finally set up an account at Bloglines, so that I can read all the blogs and news articles my little heart desires in one shot (if you’re not on my blogroll and you should be, leave your URL in the comments). Which means that these massive round-ups will be more common. There’s just too [...]
...read moreJews are all going to Hell and Muhammad was a terrorist, but John McCain really needs your votes!
So he’ll sacrifice the most basic decencies to be a front-runner in the Republican party. Anyone else think it’s pathetic that to win in the GOP, you have to embrace hate-mongers, homophobes, anti-Semites and racists? Full Krugman article below the fold, for those of you who (like me) refuse to pay for TimesSelect.
...read moreSaletan Wrong Again
William Saletan completely misses the boat on emergency contraception. Emergency contraception, also known as the “morning-after pill” and marketed in this country as “Plan B,” is a drug that a woman can take after sex but before an embryo attaches to her womb. If you don’t know much about this murky week in the reproductive [...]
...read moreGod and Abortion Rights
Like many people who hold religious beliefs and are also pro-choice — and indeed, who are pro-choice in part because of the emphasis on goodness and respect for human rights that are ingrained in their faith — I’m tired of the right-wing anti-abortion campaign claiming that they have a monopoly on God. Skim the Bible [...]
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