God, what an awkward name. Anyway. I needed to get rid of coffee stains and whatnot. My dentist's been trying to get me to do something about it for a while, but I hate him and we don't have such a great relationship. I need a new dentist ( Read more... )

So on boingboing etc. there's this story floating around about Kos of Daily Kos fame being all pissed off about health insurance..well, you know where that's going. (link http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/1/145625/234So I'm trying to go to sleep for barcamp tomorrow morning but I'm reading through these comments. Here's two particularly good ( Read more... )

So, I watch a LiveJournal group that has rather controversial posts - it's about debating abortions ( Read more... )

i'm sorry if i'm posting way too many posts about how much i hate this person or that, but this one..this one is just unbelievable.

http://digg.com/health/Feds_Approve_Birth_Control_Pill_That_Eliminates_Women_s_PeriodsOkay, so finally a digg story with a title that isn't misogynistic. but have any of you actually read through most of those ( Read more... )

I can't wait.

First, this lovely thing about the FDA being set on approving Lybrel, which is the birth control pill that stops your period for an entire YEAR ...maybe I should make this more clear...it stops your period indefinitely, not just one year (that was one of the trial periods). I've been on Seasonale before (the one where you have 4 a ( Read more... )

i left in my last nuvaring for way too long, my body apparently didn't like it too much, and then i didn't put in a new one in time, partly cause the cup and the ring hate each other. bc isn't much of a big deal anymore thanks to a certain someone, so i'm not worried about that at all...except ( Read more... )

If this post (hell, if the first link) doesn't convince you about the failures of abstinence-only education, ...wow, please get yourself sterilized now.

Some things to keep in mind as you read the links and the post: this government has spent almost $2 billion dollars in the past 10 years promoting these kinds of programs, and has earmarked $200 ( Read more... )

Okay, this is probably another TMI post, but...please, hear me out ( Read more... )

I know I recently posted that link to that site that had quotes from fundies saying all sorts of stuff..well I saw one in the rss feed about xenotransplantation.

I had to reply to that guy's post, of course, but looking at some of the numbers I got made me think a bit...

Snippet from my reply, lacking formatting and stuff:
Almost 100,000 people ( Read more... )