Health alert: Spring and hayfever go together like, well, sex and sneezes. All those flowers. All that green grass. Kachew ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

This came through one of my mailing lists; I haven't had a chance to check through to see how good or bad the statements are yet, but I figured folks would be interested either way ( Read more... )

I MUST have these "Teach the Controversy" t-shirts!
Franz Kafka's porn's been found
Real-life zombies, just around the corner! *nomnom*
Kansas politician who crusaded against abortion loses big

So my linkety-linkety post went unposted.

Teen With Broken Back Tasered 19 Times for Not Standing Up When Ordered

Whistle-Blower: Agency Tasked with Protecting American Workers Fails to Protect its Own

The Killing of Rachel Hoffman and the Tragedy That Is Pot Prohibition


Has Big Pharma Corruption Suppressed Effective Treatment Options?

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Article: “Female Bisexuality From Adolescence to Adulthood: Results From a 10-Year Longitudinal Study,” Lisa M. Diamond, PhD, University of Utah, Developmental Psychology, Vol. 44, No. 1.

This study was the basis of her fascinating book, Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire, which I've raved about multiple times in the past ( ( Read more... )

Using the bone density measurements or "T scores" of a 30-year-old woman as a standard, the new condition, osteopenia, had "boundaries so broad they include more than half of all women over 50," writes Kelleher. And it didn't hurt that 10,000 bone density measuring machines appeared in doctors' offices to detect the new disease -- only 750 existed ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned fundiepharma? If not, it's a new community following attempts to limit contraceptive access, and attempting to compile lists of places people have had problems accessing service.

The platypus is so wonderfully bizarre -- apparently down to the genomic level

My brother posted some great Muppet clips on his public journal

Oh, no! Candye ( Read more... )

The email I received is an image, not text, so I can't actually copy/paste, here, but here's the general info ( Read more... )

Part of "practical day" is posting all the links I've been meaning to, and which have been clogging up my inbox while waiting:

Bush abortion furor takes down Nancy Pelosi's website -- I posted about this the other day; glad that all indications are that it's pissing people off enough it's becoming less likely to sneak through unnoticed.

A bit of ( Read more... )