Mumps, Of All Things?
Pretty big mumps outbreak in Iowa. I had the mumps as a baby, according to my mother, as did most of my siblings (in fact, we had to leave our trip to Florida early because the twins, who had been left with my grandparents, spread the disease to Grandpa). But past 1970 or so, I [...]
...read moreYay Me
I’m *finally* sending off my application for evaluation of my legal credentials by the Canadian bar. With any luck, I’ll get off with only a few exams and be able to take them in August instead of January. Now I just need to schedule my physical and get my FBI record back. Whee!
...read moreWhitened Sepulchers
I’m not the only one who associates tooth decay with moral failure, am I? I have no problem telling a doctor that I last bothered to use my nasal spray approximately six months before allergy season started, or that I’ve been getting less than the required minimum amount of sleep for, oh, five years now. [...]
...read moreWombs for Rent, Cheap
Women in India are being paid to serve as surrogate birth mothers for Western couples. This is one of those stories that makes my feminist-meter go all wonky: It’s a reproductive freedom issue, but it’s paying a less-privileged woman to use her body in the service of another; I’m not sure that paying for personal [...]
...read moreWho Matters?
Consider these high school graduation statistics. Assume that students can be divided into groups. These groups can reflect gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, economic status, or some other characteristic that we’re dividing into categories (I realize this is problematic in itself, but let’s go with it). Now when we evaluate the whole pool of students [...]
...read moreSpeaking of Panty-Sniffing
Digby has a post up about a NOW program on the forced-birth movement in South Dakota that features the very insane Leslee Unruh, who is not only spearheading the effort to ban abortion in South Dakota, she’s pushing for abstinence-only sex education in the state. And Unruh, of course, is one of the “abortion for [...]
...read more“Panty-Sniffing” Kansas AG Thwarted
A federal judge has ruled that sweaty little bastard Kansas AG Phil Kline, who sought to obtain the medical records of thousands of women and girls who sought abortions and justified it as an effort to enforce child-rape reporting laws, has no power here: WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — In a victory for an abortion rights [...]
...read moreAt Least Someone Agrees With Little Ricky
Problem is, it’s Tony Soprano. Contains strong language. But you knew that.
...read moreWhy I Do Not Take The Tram
‘Cause I don’t want to be stuck for six hours hundreds of feet in the air suspended from a little wire. Plus, Roosevelt Island.
...read moreWhite House Shake-Ups
Scott McClellan quits. Karl Rove scales back his duties. Can’t blame McClellan. Must be morally troubling to be paid to lie, deflect questions, and not give information which should be public knowledge. As for Rove, well… the less he’s doing, the better.
...read moreBreaking: College Students Smoke Sheesha
The New York Times is really on top of it. Apparently college students smoke flavored tobacco out of hookahs. Who would have guessed. We have a hookah in our apartment. It’s blue and silver and pretty. Interestingly, we have never smoked out of it.
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