On Monday, 20 June, 2005, one Professor Ledger ("a leading UK fertility expert"), via the BBC, warned of a "reproductive time bomb" threatening the UK if women continued to put off having children until their late 30's or early 40's.

Last Sunday, he proclaimed the bomb detonated from the front page of the Observer. A staggering, frightening, ( Read more... )

This here dude, who has a refreshing theory about the causes and motives for Nadya Suleman's decision to give birth to octuplets.

It's not mental illness, as the usually pretty right-on Pandagon blog suggests. Slate's XX Factor desk, normally a pretty mealy-mouthed bastion of solidly middle class fem-on-fem judgementalism, essays a variety of ( Read more... )