Oh so little time left between now and airline/family/airline doom. I'll be so happy once this stupid trip is over ( Read more... )

there has been much good today, but also so much bullshit that i'm beyond wanting to scream. sprog-free birthday? haha whatthefuckever ( Read more... )

I'm fucking LIVID. fucking idiots who aren't parents giving my child a fruit drink that they forgot had JD in it. "Oh, it wasn't that much...." meaning not much JD in the gallon-sized container of blueberries and mangoes. And we find out later that there were FIVE SHOTS of JD, which may not seem like a lot to a grown woman, but when you're 26 ( Read more... )

http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/06/inside_the_g20_eastern_avenue_detention_centre/Read more... )

Cattle and chickens were brought in off the pasture into intensely crowded and mechanized CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) where corn -- which is no part of a cow's natural diet, by the way -- could be turned cheaply and quickly into animal flesh. All these different products, in turn, rolled on down the new industrial food pipeline ( Read more... )

http://www.phdinparenting.com/2010/05/08/more-evidence-you-cant-believe-a-word-nestle-says/

Nestle sells babyfood in Germany. On the packaging, it says this:

ORIGINAL GERMAN: Strampeln, Strecken, Greifen - je aktiver Ihr ( Read more... )

Seeing the headline of the recent medical article on Canadian doctors performing pelvic exams on unconscious surgery patients without their consent broke something loose in my brain. The non-consensual part seemed to be the trigger.

Apparently, the universe thinks it's time for me to make more sense of what I went through when I had my son.

More ( Read more... )

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/time-to-end-pelvic-exams-done-without-consent/article1447337/Read more... )

those natural disasters are kinda on the rise, eh ( Read more... )

Dear People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,

In case you have forgotten, PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS.

And since you are hopelessly clueless, let me spell it out for you:

This is unethical.

So is this.If you cannot be true to even your own name, at least stop creating more hate in the world so that you can actually further your cause, rather than ( Read more... )