For the Peeps in the audience: Turtle Swarm!! Massachusetts sues Federal Gov't over DOMA Interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Place of Women on the Court (both from
lcohen Wow. Ick. "If things are really desperate, it might be time for your other half to go under the knife. With the advances in medical science and the current obsession with celebrity culture, cosmetic surgery is becoming more and more common. While it isn't something to be rushed into, nor something to persuade someone to do, surgery can do wonders for the confidence of someone who is less than a sight for sore eyes. And you'll have the bonus of a parading around town with a stunner on your arm." Read the Never-Before-Published Letter From LSD-Inventor Albert Hofmann to Apple CEO Steve Jobs Vitamin D and Mental Health Sexism in Comedy -- this is one of those things that irks me consistently (especially in regards to the Daily Show, where I expect better)
Crisis of Deception: Fake Clinics Spread Misinformation on the Federal Dime Post-Abortion Syndrome: Anti-Choice "Researchers" Seek to Mislead and Intimidate Women House moves to lift bans on abortion funding, needle exchange, domestic partnership, and medical marijuana in DC The Case for an Anti-Abortion Violence Registry -- I need to reread this and ponder it for a while before I conclude where I stand on the idea. Overly broad registry requirements have destroyed a lot of people's lives needlessly (I'm particularly influenced by my view of sex offender registries that tend to include people convicted of consensual but illegal behavior).
How a Late-Term Abortion Saved My Life -- because I'm not going to stop posting about how important this access is until people really _get_ what late-term abortions are for.
Yendi's got so many fun links in this entry, I'm just sending you there instead of adding them all separately Why the FBI Squelched an Investigation of a Post-9/11 Meeting Between White Supremacist and Islamic Extremists -- Wow. Talk about groups I don't want getting friendly with each other. Although an interesting counterpoint to the white supremacists enlisting in the military in order to "kill arabs".
Learn to make your own household cleaners 10 Dangerous Household Products You Should Never Use Again -- I don't entirely agree with the tenor of the article, but there's a lot of good, useful links in it.
abortion pill use has increased to 1/4 of all abortions; infection rate way down What's the Connection Between Midwives and Health Care Reform? Quick Hit: Ukraine Outlaws Porn -- WTF?
On the new women's-only pharmacy in Vancouver excluding trans women *headdesk*
What does feminist urban policy look like? Adult Sex Education Look was a lovely stranger found for me:
This user on DailyMotion
http://www.dailymotion.com/tardismedia is in the process of posting the entire Classic series from his VHS collection. I had been trying to watch via Netflix too, and found his videos very useful in filling in the gaps where things haven't been released on DVD yet. It's easiest to watch via playlist:
http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/tardismedia (listed newest to oldest). (thanks to
treading