* In Arizona, they are pushing a bill to allow employers to fire women for using birth control. After all, whether or not a woman is sexually active is the employer's business, right ( Read more... )

* As hard as it is to watch or listen to the things going on in Syria, I think it is important to be a witness, to not forget that brave people are still risking their lives to report and smuggle footage out. It is easy to let this sort of news get lost in the shuffle of our own concerns, but I think it's important to not let that happen ( Read more... )

* I spent all afternoon doing preliminary stuff on the hand surgery. There is only a 5% chance of cancer, but it's rapid growing and in a really annoying location. It means most of a week with only my walking hand and crappy hygiene, but not having the growth will be worth it in the long run. Anyway, it's scheduled for the 13tth. No word yet on ( Read more... )

* The new pill should fit seamlessly into my existing med schedule. There are reasons to expect it will improve quality of life, so i am not particularly worried ( Read more... )

* I finished Late Eclipses. ( hardly any spoilers: )

* Libyan Government forces massacred demonstrators in Az Zawia, but the city still holds out. news teams trying to cover events there have been detained and beaten. They continue to fire on Ambulances and children ( Read more... )

* I'm too sick to sleep properly. I will not be on Trin tonight. hector's response to my illness is to howl at me. alot. "Stop falling over and making scary sounds! Stop lying still! Get up! comfort me!" Mache's response is also typical of her: come sit quietly on or next to her human, careful to lie so as not to restrict breathing. LM is ( Read more... )

* Gadhafi keeps pretending that rather than a huge popular pro-democracy uprising he's facing a handful of al-Queada insurgents. He's also lying about the death figures. His forces are trying to take out the principle opposition city. As I type this children are dieing in the indiscriminate attacks. Meanwhile, the opposition has formed an ( Read more... )

* In Ivory Coast, the armed forces fired into a crowd of peaceful women protesters killing at least six (The video is very disturbing, as it includes raw footage of the massacre): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12656451Read more... )

* A No Fly Zone would require bombing Libya. I do not think us fighting a war with a third country and likely bombing civilians is a good idea at this juncture. You can likely list the reasons yourself. Humanitarian Aid would be a show of support that doesn't involve us starting a third war, so I'm okay with that ( Read more... )