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moominmuppetDoing a lot better today. Feeling fine physically, and my mood is mostly back to normal too. I've got some stressful stuff I have to deal with on Monday (financial stress crap), but I've talked myself down from my usual freak-out/avoidance thing, and reminded myself that I've actually done things in the past year to minimize how badly I can screw up (separating household and personal finances was a huge element of that; takes so much stress off my worrying about my own personal fuck-ups). So, there's that. And once I deal with it I'll feel much better. *nodnod*
In the meantime, I can't do anything about it today or tomorrow, so I'm going to have good days and not wind myself up. I have tomatoes fresh from the garden, brazil nuts, and lots of other goodies. I've got all the Six Feet Under discs that finally arrived yesterday. As I said to NL earlier today, this particular mess may be stressful, and hit a lot of my anxiety buttons, but life doesn't suck.
Live updates on Occupy Wall Street
More: Dozens Of Protesters Arrested At Occupy Wall St. March (more links in the comments)
More: "Occupy Wall Street" Protest Has International Support; Setting Up for Long Haul
Texas GOP Rep On Cuts To Family Planning: ‘Of Course This Is A War On Birth Control’
Several brands of birth control pills are being recalled because they, uh, don’t work right. The brands included are:
Cyclafem 7/7/7 Cyclafem 1/35 Emoquette Gildess FE 1.5/30 Gildess FE 1/20 Orsythia Previfem Tri-Previfem
Basically, they’re labelled wrong, so you can still get pregnant even if you are taking them correctly. -- I posted about this previously, but please, please, please spread the word on this.
Miscarriage No Longer Considered "Emergency" For Medicaid Patients In Washington State
More: This is what health care rationing looks like
Anti-abortion protesters target clinic’s landlord outside child’s Md. school
Related: here's the site the clinic's landlord organized for volunteers interested in helping him -- I've signed up to send email and make calls for an hour a week.
Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald is a young African American transgender woman charged with “second degree murder” after an incident that began when she was violently attacked because of her gender and race.
Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone’s white. That’s what we have to change
Idris Elba
Root Sculptures by Kim Sun Hyuk
End-Stage Renal Disease and Celiac Disease: Link Proven
Getting Rich Is a Group Effort
UK Lib Dems Back Complete Repeal of Gay Blood Ban
Ikea’s Manland: Insulting Men, Upholding Patriarchy?
Flesh-eating Plant Inspires Slippery Science
Furniture for Reading -- OK, I totally want this. Even if it does remind me of the late and unlamented Groth (from college: a garbage-picked fuzzy-wavy-couchy sort of thing in a green that looked like Oscar with seasickness)
8 Strange Sea Creatures
Proscribed Printables (on 3-D printing and creation of gun components)
Teacher’s Urban Garden a “Nuisance,” Judge Says
Where Does the Racialized Pro-Life Movement Stand on Troy Davis?
9 Policies Conservatives Were For Long Before They Were Against Them Additionally, this makes very clear just how conservative many of Obama's policies are. I like him as a human, but didn't expect him to be other than a centrist. (I did expect him to do better on constitutional issues than he has, though, so I'm specifically frustrated about that).
Is the Near-Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Bubble About to Pop?
Marijuana arrests now comprise more than one-half (52 percent) of all drug arrests in the United States.
Yemeni President Suddenly Returns After 4 Months
Cost Of Raising a Child Increases 40 Percent, No Wonder More Women Are In Poverty
Erasing Bisexual Invisibility -- One last belated CBD article.
In three new ads featuring model Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian lingerie company Hope urges women to take off their clothes before breaking “bad” news to their male partners.
Nevada Makes Second Attempt At Banning All Abortions
LGBT Morning Mix: Lady Gaga Vows Action Over Bullying Deaths
When life gets you down, it's always good to be reminded of Tree-climbing goats
DOJ says Governor Rick Perry’s redistricting violates Voting Rights Act
Zappos: “Fits for Every Body Type”… or Something
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Men’s egos so fragile, the wrong friendships will lead to erectile dysfunction (dissection of lousy research)
More anti-Choice billboards targeting black men
Quick Hit: Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality Series -- I've already posted links to several articles in this series. It's a great one, and well worth exploring.
Rosanne Barr speaks at Occupy Wall Street protest
Created by Toronto activist and feminist hero, Jessica Whitbread, No Pants No Problem is the ultimate safe space: A sex-positive, anti-stigma, pantless dance party where people are encouraged to explore their sexuality while thinking about safe sex and gender norms. Proceeds from the September 10th party were donated the AIDS Committee of Toronto (via the AIDS Walk for Life) and the International Community of Women Living with HIV.
Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White House grew so intense during the first two years of the president’s tenure that he was forced to take steps to reassure senior women on his staff that he valued their presence and their input. -- Although I'm not averse to complaining about Obama, in this case I think the full article makes it clear that it was a problem, and that he was central in addressing it as it should have been, and helping to improve things.
A moment of silence
A new study out of the University of Michigan Medical School found that around 8% of women suffer from vulvodynia, a frustratingly mysterious condition whose symptoms include pain during sex. It’s estimated that 25% of women will have vulvodynia at some point in their lives. (another of those obnoxious "commonly comorbid with fibro" disorders, so I've had problems with it occasionally, although thankfully not very frequently.)
First Fines Over Wearing Full Veils in France
'Class Warfare' and Gender Politics in Massachusetts
Technically, science will be less lonely for women when girls are spurred early
Black President, Double Standard: Why White Liberals Are Abandoning Obama
'Men buy girls, not sex' and other myths of anti-prostitution moralists
Funny Ladies: Bisexuals in the Comics
How Doctor Who Became My Religion
Five Reasons New Who Fans Should Watch... The Curse of Peladon (part of a planned series of reviews of good old series eps for New Who fans)
On the downside, Howlcastle is ceasing new Pretty Smart posts about old Who companions (link is to the full collection so far)
Linking spiral arms, two large colliding galaxies are featured in this remarkable cosmic portrait constructed using image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive.
The 1 in 3 campaign is a grassroots movement to start a new conversation about abortion — telling our stories, on our own terms. Together, we can end the stigma women face each and every day and assure access to basic health care. As we tell our stories and support our family and friends as they come forward with theirs, we begin build a culture of compassion, empathy, and support...
Lady Gaga tells Jean Paul Gaultier she is bisexual but single
Netflix splits into two brands, DVD service to be named Qwikster
In which I am derailing and contrary and also unsupportive of the Market (a response to and critique of the YesToGayYA meme)
Squids are pretty kinky, but not into foreplay: study
Pleiades Deep Field
It's a continuous spectrum, not a stripy rainbow -- Interesting debates on this one in the comments.
It's "The Royale" with cheese -- Riker, Data, and Worf are trapped in a really really bad novel. Special guest appearance by Bernard from Lost.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz resigns from The Plain Dealer (updated)
Repairs from lightning strike could reach $3 million on RTA's Red Line, official says
Ohio Third Frontier gives grants for research in medical innovation in Cleveland
Port authority OKs strategic plan over developer's objection
“The best part about Convent is the very real, very sexy, and very tender relationship between a woman and the lover she can no longer have. While Portia is battling succubi and demons and mad scientists, the heart of the story is about two women who love each other so deeply that they’re trying to stay together even after life itself.”
Fair Elections Ohio: Protect the rights of voters!
Join us on the front lines to defend democracy!
Become a Fair Elections Ohio Team Member
When I discuss health care, people tell me, “I have good insurance.” I always reply, “Have you gotten seriously sick? Have you ever had to make a serious claim on your insurance for major surgery or a large-scale illness?” -- So very, frighteningly, true.
Exploded flowers
WISE mission captures black hole's wildly flaring jet
BBC reveals details about the Doctor Who Christmas 2011 Special
Calling Espenson fans
Google adds South Sudan to Google Maps
How my shirt flummoxed the TSA
NumbersUSA announced that they will air television ads during the next GOP presidential candidate debate that advocate further restrictions on the level of documented (so called "legal") immigrants. As IREHR recently noted, some national nativist groups appear to be changing course, and preparing to launch a campaign to restrict documented immigration. If this shift in nativist strategy fully materializes, it is likely to alter the terms of discussion by policymakers and the public.
8 Adventure Tourist Destinations That Respect Tribal Peoples
A recent article reveals that the work of well-known Islamophobes permeates the FBI's training culture and the internal reference resources available to FBI agents.
By fusing genes from goats and spiders, researchers have made sheets of human skin bulletproof. (to a .22 and won't prevent your organs from being pulped)
Steven Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man, published in 1981, was a formative book for me. I’ve always thought of it as two books at once: first, it’s a book about the history of IQ studies and the false belief that Africans have smaller skulls (and thus, by inaccurate extension) less brain capacity than white people. Second, it’s a book about how scientists’ biases affect their results, even when they are working in complete good faith.
This story of the history of menotoxin, by Kate Clancy, is exactly the same kind of doubled account. She recounts the scientific history of the belief that menstruating women secrete toxic substances
Silence From Rep. Bachmann As Vaccine Challenge Expires
Offenders In Ala. Town Can Choose Jail Or Church -- *rage*
Journalist Is Detained in China for Article on Sex Slaves
In the meantime, I can't do anything about it today or tomorrow, so I'm going to have good days and not wind myself up. I have tomatoes fresh from the garden, brazil nuts, and lots of other goodies. I've got all the Six Feet Under discs that finally arrived yesterday. As I said to NL earlier today, this particular mess may be stressful, and hit a lot of my anxiety buttons, but life doesn't suck.
Live updates on Occupy Wall Street
More: Dozens Of Protesters Arrested At Occupy Wall St. March (more links in the comments)
More: "Occupy Wall Street" Protest Has International Support; Setting Up for Long Haul
Texas GOP Rep On Cuts To Family Planning: ‘Of Course This Is A War On Birth Control’
Several brands of birth control pills are being recalled because they, uh, don’t work right. The brands included are:
Cyclafem 7/7/7 Cyclafem 1/35 Emoquette Gildess FE 1.5/30 Gildess FE 1/20 Orsythia Previfem Tri-Previfem
Basically, they’re labelled wrong, so you can still get pregnant even if you are taking them correctly. -- I posted about this previously, but please, please, please spread the word on this.
Miscarriage No Longer Considered "Emergency" For Medicaid Patients In Washington State
More: This is what health care rationing looks like
Anti-abortion protesters target clinic’s landlord outside child’s Md. school
Related: here's the site the clinic's landlord organized for volunteers interested in helping him -- I've signed up to send email and make calls for an hour a week.
Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald is a young African American transgender woman charged with “second degree murder” after an incident that began when she was violently attacked because of her gender and race.
Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone’s white. That’s what we have to change
Idris Elba
Root Sculptures by Kim Sun Hyuk
End-Stage Renal Disease and Celiac Disease: Link Proven
Getting Rich Is a Group Effort
UK Lib Dems Back Complete Repeal of Gay Blood Ban
Ikea’s Manland: Insulting Men, Upholding Patriarchy?
Flesh-eating Plant Inspires Slippery Science
Furniture for Reading -- OK, I totally want this. Even if it does remind me of the late and unlamented Groth (from college: a garbage-picked fuzzy-wavy-couchy sort of thing in a green that looked like Oscar with seasickness)
8 Strange Sea Creatures
Proscribed Printables (on 3-D printing and creation of gun components)
Teacher’s Urban Garden a “Nuisance,” Judge Says
Where Does the Racialized Pro-Life Movement Stand on Troy Davis?
9 Policies Conservatives Were For Long Before They Were Against Them Additionally, this makes very clear just how conservative many of Obama's policies are. I like him as a human, but didn't expect him to be other than a centrist. (I did expect him to do better on constitutional issues than he has, though, so I'm specifically frustrated about that).
Is the Near-Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Bubble About to Pop?
Marijuana arrests now comprise more than one-half (52 percent) of all drug arrests in the United States.
Yemeni President Suddenly Returns After 4 Months
Cost Of Raising a Child Increases 40 Percent, No Wonder More Women Are In Poverty
Erasing Bisexual Invisibility -- One last belated CBD article.
In three new ads featuring model Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian lingerie company Hope urges women to take off their clothes before breaking “bad” news to their male partners.
Nevada Makes Second Attempt At Banning All Abortions
LGBT Morning Mix: Lady Gaga Vows Action Over Bullying Deaths
When life gets you down, it's always good to be reminded of Tree-climbing goats
DOJ says Governor Rick Perry’s redistricting violates Voting Rights Act
Zappos: “Fits for Every Body Type”… or Something
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Men’s egos so fragile, the wrong friendships will lead to erectile dysfunction (dissection of lousy research)
More anti-Choice billboards targeting black men
Quick Hit: Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality Series -- I've already posted links to several articles in this series. It's a great one, and well worth exploring.
Rosanne Barr speaks at Occupy Wall Street protest
Created by Toronto activist and feminist hero, Jessica Whitbread, No Pants No Problem is the ultimate safe space: A sex-positive, anti-stigma, pantless dance party where people are encouraged to explore their sexuality while thinking about safe sex and gender norms. Proceeds from the September 10th party were donated the AIDS Committee of Toronto (via the AIDS Walk for Life) and the International Community of Women Living with HIV.
Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White House grew so intense during the first two years of the president’s tenure that he was forced to take steps to reassure senior women on his staff that he valued their presence and their input. -- Although I'm not averse to complaining about Obama, in this case I think the full article makes it clear that it was a problem, and that he was central in addressing it as it should have been, and helping to improve things.
A moment of silence
A new study out of the University of Michigan Medical School found that around 8% of women suffer from vulvodynia, a frustratingly mysterious condition whose symptoms include pain during sex. It’s estimated that 25% of women will have vulvodynia at some point in their lives. (another of those obnoxious "commonly comorbid with fibro" disorders, so I've had problems with it occasionally, although thankfully not very frequently.)
First Fines Over Wearing Full Veils in France
'Class Warfare' and Gender Politics in Massachusetts
Technically, science will be less lonely for women when girls are spurred early
Black President, Double Standard: Why White Liberals Are Abandoning Obama
'Men buy girls, not sex' and other myths of anti-prostitution moralists
Funny Ladies: Bisexuals in the Comics
How Doctor Who Became My Religion
Five Reasons New Who Fans Should Watch... The Curse of Peladon (part of a planned series of reviews of good old series eps for New Who fans)
On the downside, Howlcastle is ceasing new Pretty Smart posts about old Who companions (link is to the full collection so far)
Linking spiral arms, two large colliding galaxies are featured in this remarkable cosmic portrait constructed using image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive.
The 1 in 3 campaign is a grassroots movement to start a new conversation about abortion — telling our stories, on our own terms. Together, we can end the stigma women face each and every day and assure access to basic health care. As we tell our stories and support our family and friends as they come forward with theirs, we begin build a culture of compassion, empathy, and support...
Lady Gaga tells Jean Paul Gaultier she is bisexual but single
Netflix splits into two brands, DVD service to be named Qwikster
In which I am derailing and contrary and also unsupportive of the Market (a response to and critique of the YesToGayYA meme)
Squids are pretty kinky, but not into foreplay: study
Pleiades Deep Field
It's a continuous spectrum, not a stripy rainbow -- Interesting debates on this one in the comments.
It's "The Royale" with cheese -- Riker, Data, and Worf are trapped in a really really bad novel. Special guest appearance by Bernard from Lost.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz resigns from The Plain Dealer (updated)
Repairs from lightning strike could reach $3 million on RTA's Red Line, official says
Ohio Third Frontier gives grants for research in medical innovation in Cleveland
Port authority OKs strategic plan over developer's objection
“The best part about Convent is the very real, very sexy, and very tender relationship between a woman and the lover she can no longer have. While Portia is battling succubi and demons and mad scientists, the heart of the story is about two women who love each other so deeply that they’re trying to stay together even after life itself.”
Fair Elections Ohio: Protect the rights of voters!
Join us on the front lines to defend democracy!
Become a Fair Elections Ohio Team Member
When I discuss health care, people tell me, “I have good insurance.” I always reply, “Have you gotten seriously sick? Have you ever had to make a serious claim on your insurance for major surgery or a large-scale illness?” -- So very, frighteningly, true.
Exploded flowers
WISE mission captures black hole's wildly flaring jet
BBC reveals details about the Doctor Who Christmas 2011 Special
Calling Espenson fans
Google adds South Sudan to Google Maps
How my shirt flummoxed the TSA
NumbersUSA announced that they will air television ads during the next GOP presidential candidate debate that advocate further restrictions on the level of documented (so called "legal") immigrants. As IREHR recently noted, some national nativist groups appear to be changing course, and preparing to launch a campaign to restrict documented immigration. If this shift in nativist strategy fully materializes, it is likely to alter the terms of discussion by policymakers and the public.
8 Adventure Tourist Destinations That Respect Tribal Peoples
A recent article reveals that the work of well-known Islamophobes permeates the FBI's training culture and the internal reference resources available to FBI agents.
By fusing genes from goats and spiders, researchers have made sheets of human skin bulletproof. (to a .22 and won't prevent your organs from being pulped)
Steven Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man, published in 1981, was a formative book for me. I’ve always thought of it as two books at once: first, it’s a book about the history of IQ studies and the false belief that Africans have smaller skulls (and thus, by inaccurate extension) less brain capacity than white people. Second, it’s a book about how scientists’ biases affect their results, even when they are working in complete good faith.
This story of the history of menotoxin, by Kate Clancy, is exactly the same kind of doubled account. She recounts the scientific history of the belief that menstruating women secrete toxic substances
Silence From Rep. Bachmann As Vaccine Challenge Expires
Offenders In Ala. Town Can Choose Jail Or Church -- *rage*
Journalist Is Detained in China for Article on Sex Slaves
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Date: 2011-09-25 04:56 am (UTC)I love nudibranchs.
I am in complete agreeance on the Obama was always a centrist, though he's drifted further right as he's tried to be a "uniter" or "bi-partisan". I'm equally disappointed in how poor his constitutional record has been.
(sigh) We've create a lot of "false" money in this nation with four major bubbles. Two have burst, one has a serious patch-job, and we're waiting on the fourth. (Stock, Mortgage, High Finance, and Loans).
Um, those ads would seriously destroy any romance with any sane guy. Most guys stop dead in their tracks when the mention of their car being wrecked. Instant boner-be-gone. It's probably do some major long term damage to the relationship. To say nothing of the message that's being sent in the ad. Disgusting. And the mother-in-law? Yeah that would probably result in divorce papers if he wasn't consulted. Seriously, bad bad bad relationship idea.
I don't think I'd compare Barack's record to Clinton's. Very different economies and world issues.
*fumes over religious favoritism and violation of separation of church and state* Isn't AA bad enough? As for the pastor, I cite the numbnuts that blow up abortion clinics as people who "fall in love with Jesus" who are a MAJOR FUCKING PROBLEM FOR SOCIETY!