I was in a blur of finals and papers when this news broke, but I can't believe I missed it: "Proposed Colorado Measure on Rights for Human Eggs."

Yes. The EGGS. The itty-bitty, teensy-tiny egg that you shed out every month in your Tampax and your pads, that get flushed out in the toilet with your dead goldfish, the eggs are now brought into the ( Read more... )

I think I was grinning, open-mouthed, ear-to-ear grinning, this morning when I watched Hillary Clinton's video, in which she said that she was "IN IT TO WIN IT"--it, of course, being the 2008 Presidential Elections. She's got her Exploratory Committee up-and-going, and is starting live WebCam conversations about politics for Viewers at Home to ( Read more... )

The world of women in politics is doing quite impressively these last few days. Yes, Nancy Pelosi, I'm looking at you, but also at Ms. Ségolène Royal, who is making her way up the French political ladder. American and French Revolutions, Part Deux? Perhaps, perhaps. And if not a revolution (though it is an interesting connection), then an exciting ( Read more... )

So it seems, at long last, a majority of our country has got their heads screwed on right. I don't necessarily mean my fellow, voting-age inhabitants of NJ District 7, who voted in incumbent Mike "I'm Bush's Super-Conservative Parrot" Ferguson over progressive Linda Stender. However, though we lost the battle, we won the war (in the House, at least ( Read more... )

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Dear Gov. Michael Rounds,

Hey, there. We need to chat. Now. Yes, mister, this is what you think it's about. I'm sure your Inbox has been absolutely flooded in the past few days, and that's got to be a handful. Oh, and that front page story on The New York Times this morning? Probably added to the constant hum of annoyance from protestors, Planned ( Read more... )