I am fuming fucking mad about the HHS decision to overrule the FDA's decision to lift restrictions on OTC access of emergency contraception. See, the FDA had decided it was fine to allow any girl or woman of any age to purchase Plan B OTC. The HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decided we just couldn't have this and overruled this decision ( Read more... )

S. is sick with some sinus thing and I was up with him until 4:30 this morning. Thankfully he finally slept and stayed asleep until 11:30. He cannot breathe when he is lying down so he doesn't want to sleep. Poor guy ( Read more... )

I could almost laugh at these idiots if I didn't a.) think there were far too many of them, b.) they weren't holding signs with things like "We came unarmed this time" and c.) there weren't palpable levels of racism present.

WTF?

Seriously, WTF is up with committing oneself to being so damned ignorant and hateful?

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Really.

This is just straight-up crazy, fucked-up, bullshit. The presence of confederate flags, blatant racism, and total disrespect for what actually happened under the Nazi regime just makes it all even more infuriating. Of course, every single person in those photos is white, white, white. It is all just appalling.

The ignorance just ( Read more... )

We voted during poll downtime, at around 10:30am today. Short line, but it clearly had been a busy day. There was a man standing the requisite number of feet from the actual polling place with "No On 8" signs handing out "No On 8" postcards. We explained we were already voting no and thanked him profusely for standing out there. He seemed so ( Read more... )

Aside from being disgusted that Prop 8 is even on the ballot, I am further disgusted at the "Yes on 8" television ads. In particular, I am disgusted by the one that basically tells us if Prop 8 gets passed then our precious children will learn about same-sex marriage in school and this is WRONG and EVIL and BAD. I hope my children grow up in a ( Read more... )

Sometimes people just scare me.

The bizarre not-even-thinly-veiled racism (and just plain crazy) evident in this letter to the editor of a newspaper serving the town I grew up in (among several others) just chills me. Sure, it is some random wacko who writes crazy letters to the editor, but you know what? I went to school with people who ( Read more... )

Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as "Shrub," died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62.

::sigh::

The US just keeps lagging further and further behind in granting equal rights to its citizens. Weren't we supposed to be the great leaders of all this? Oh, that's right, all that "equality" talk when the nation was founded was only intended for white, straight men. The rest of us didn't/don't matter.

Ireland to Legalize Gay Partnerships ( Read more... )

Molly Ivins wrote a great piece about the abortion ban in South Dakota:

South Dakota is so rarely found on the leading edge of the far out, the wiggy, the California-esque. But it has now staked its claim. First to Outlaw Abortion This Century. The state legislature of South Dakota, in all its wisdom and majesty, a legislature comprised of sons and ( Read more... )