I'm bemused by Christmas and the beginning of Chanukah being the same day, for the first time in my memory. I've got a couple of actual Christmas things I'm going to today and tomorrow; hopefully it won't be taken weirdly if I bring my tow truck menorah ( Read more... )

1) theferrett posted, some while ago, actually, your partner is not a backstop, which is actually a kinda odd title to me, because my takeaway from the piece is more that sometimes there's stuff that's not important to you but it's way important to the other person, and it may seem totally illogical, but do realize that there's some love language takeaway in ( Read more... )

I didn't write this first part first but it's the more inside rather than outside. Firstly, OMG it's weird to have rehearsal 3 days a week for well over a month, and then 7 days in a row with the cast (last week - 3 run throughs and then a preview with audience and then 3 official performances) and then . . . M, T, W, T no rehearsal. I'm of ( Read more... )

1) Well, I feel entirely pessimistic about the budget 'negotiations.' Here's Krugman today Let’s talk for a minute about what Republican leaders are rejecting ( Read more... )

[Edit: I started posting b/c of the biopsy article, but really, the the stuff on various bills after the divider is also very important.]

Usually I don't have rage against medical providers. But this front page NYTimes story was enough for me to buy the actual paper: Study of Breast Biopsies Finds Surgery Used Too ExtensivelyA study in Florida ( Read more... )

I didn't think it could happen.

Here. Read about Title X. And the preventative services it pays for.

Planned Parenthood has an open letter they're asking people to sign and to share the link. The U.S. House of Representatives has just voted to bar Planned Parenthood health centers from all federal funding for birth control, cancer screenings, ( Read more... )

1) So I wandered over at like 9:30 to my local polling place and was #218. Given that the Mayor was pretty much decided in the primary and our congresscritters don't have a vote in Congress (though Norton does get a vote in committee) I guess this isn't all that surprising ( Read more... )

From a British news comedy commentary show...

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A certain someone who prefers to remain nameless has created a transcript behind the cut, but comedic timing is of course better if you watch. (Helpful if accents are troublesome)
( here be transcript )

Since I mostly live under a rock, I'd never heard of Krystal Ball until today ( Read more... )

Had I had more energy and less coughing, I'd have spent some time over the weekend making campaign calls via https://call.barackobama.com/ . I'm reminded of this, strangely enough, by the reports that President Obama will be on an upcoming Mythbusters.Anyway, I'm seeing a lot of prep for ( Read more... )