I need a specific icon for these posts. I should ponder that.

Anyway, trying to wade through my inbox, and I've got entirely too much tagged as "to read/post", so here it comes:

Some impressively hideous racism on a local radio channel, link from meganj28

PolyMedia has some astute things to say about poly media coverage, and how it happens (and a bit ( Read more... )

Home with a damned migraine _again_. My paycheck is going to blow. I've got an appt set up for an eye exam so I can get myself some prescription sunglasses, though, which I'm hoping will make it a lot easier to continue to function with commuting and work when I've got a moderate migraine. I wish my glasses weren't so damned expensive; my last ( Read more... )

Call for Submissions- Double Edge: The Intersection of Transgender and BDSM

Thanks, abstinence-only education!

Thanks to a decade of misinformation masquerading as sex education, teens are having the same amount of sex, using contraception less, and getting pregnant more.

Cute and funny Rachel Maddow gifs

Bisexual Relationships Examiner on ( Read more... )

Cleaning out my inbox, trying to catch up on life:

Listening to the Heart of a Woman (I may already have posted this)

New York Times discovers that some women don't diet!

How are your orgasms, Mom?

Blurb.com -- make your own book -- haven't looked at it all that closely yet, but want to hang onto the link.

Hidden Passageways for your house -- ( Read more... )

Backache from hell woke me up around 2am. Finally got back to sleep at 5am. Ended up calling in ( Read more... )

So very not bored with life right now ( Read more... )

Excellent article on AAPS, JPANDS, lousy medical publishing, and worse science (if you've ever wondered where these abortion/breast cancer, vaccines/autism, and other recent junk studies have managed to be published, here you go...)

Also, a good article about the obnoxious abortion tropes in modern TV shows, and tribute to Bea Arthur's performance ( Read more... )

Update on current status federal marijuana policy

Why 'conscience clauses' are indeed a big deal

On informed consent, and the discrepancy between how women are treated around abortion and around delivery

Fortune Small Business magazine put out an article on transgender workers today, available on the CNNMoney.com site. Entitled "When a staffer ( Read more... )

This is from back in January, but it's awesome, and it's one of the big churches in our neighborhood. I love 'em; they contribute a lot to the area, and are all kinds of justice-lovin' lefty.

Clergy at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in Cleveland won't sign state marriage licenses in gay-rights protest

Hack your brain ( Read more... )

It's 6am. I'm about halfway through Mortuary, which appears to be a thriller about the creeping mildew of doom. Denise Crosby has exactly the same hairstyle as she did as Tasha Yar. I shouldn't talk. Mine's been the same for at least as long ( Read more... )