A few links, mostly political

[moominmuppet]

Your Own Private Ohio: Seven Ways Your Vote Might Not Count This November -- Good practical information and links.
Relatedly, from a few weeks back: Ohio's Election Stolen Again? State May Face 600K Voter Purge in Coming Weeks

Greta hits it on the nose about what's so cool about other people's hobbies and obsessions (bec76, you'll be particularly

Comments

[lunatickle]

this has given me too much to look up! i have to go home from my work sometime!

thanks for the Mr. Rogers support -- I personally loved Sesame Street more, but he really is a wonderful soul and teaches kids, especially really young ones, how to be peaceful within themselves and in their world.

but Electric Company did rock. I trace the fall of American youth to its demise.

[recoiling]

I went to a new gynecologist for a colposcopy last week and he could not for the life of him understand why I would use latex gloves as part of my safer sex repertoire. It was not comforting to know this was the person who was going to be scraping a chunk of my cervix out

[moominmuppet]

Ack! Just found this sitting in my inbox, awaiting a reply. I'm so scattered these days...

I went to a new gynecologist for a colposcopy last week and he could not for the life of him understand why I would use latex gloves as part of my safer sex repertoire.

*sigh* I wish I were surprised. You wouldn't believe what the residents I evaluate generally don't know about safer sex.

I've heard that doctors get bonuses when they get women on medicaid onto long-term hormonal birth control such as depo or implanon or when they sterilize them. Do you have any knowledge of this happening?

I don't have concrete knowledge of it happening, but I certainly can't dismiss it as paranoia, either. It's also, however, entirely likely he's going off some overly-rigid and overly-simplified mental flowchart, given what else it seems he doesn't know.