Yes, in the UK, very sunny Scotland to be exact (seriously, it hasn't rained in 3 days, I may expire.)

I never knew my reading of the Handmaids Tale would prove so useful! The fabulous cognitive dissonance in the seperation of the wives, the handmaids and then the brothel/party chapter. Keep your women in nice easy boxes, to be taken out when required. Male sexuality excused and indulged by other men.

Is this what that congressman meant really when he said obama 'wasn't really an American in his heart?' ie he's black (and half foreign) *said slightly tongue in cheek*

And this is why Peter Tatchell keeps trying to citizen arrest him.

I thought abortion was the black baby holocaust? Or were they (dare I think it) being disengenuous?

Yes, you are right, she will likely do it with all that support behind her, plus the financial motivation.

it's so deliciously West of Scotland. I'm thinking Ewan McGregor right now...

I live in the UK, so I do pay for a lot of these things, through my taxes. There is still room for improvement, and by the way I vote I have already indicated that I don't mind my taxes going up further in order to improve health and social services more.

Oh yes I know, Terry Pratchett for the win, although Lost Continent not one of my faves. I do love it for the 'some of the sheep' line!

This made me wake up one of my children, I laughed so loud!

OK you know what? They think abortion is amoral, fine. Do you know what the most moral and christian way to try to stamp out abortion would be? Try to create a world where no one would ever need one.

Again (I apologise for being a broken record) but here is where the situation in the UK is happily, much better.

Also chlamydia is endemic in Koalas

There are several passages in Watership Down about rabbits reabsorbing pregnancies if the warren was overcrowed. That book was a lot darker than the film.

I guess it could happen with an accidental pregnancy. In ER (fiction I know) when Chen-Mae (sorry, I don't know how her name is spelled, became pregnant her family were annoyed but couldn't understand why she wanted to have the baby adopted. Then they found out the father was black, and at that point I think there…

I worked for a lovely paediatrician (god damn you american spell checker!) who used to talk about his observation that everyone loves a child with Downs, the younger the better, cute and affable and socially disinhibited so they give hugs to everyone.

Spider influenza is the next big zoonosis, get your shots now...

Odd, I have always wondered that, especially when kennel cough and rabies, leukemia for cats etc and so preventable with vaccination.

Got to love a well placed 'shite.'

Can some nice democrat put forward a 'Women's Right to Know Bill' that states -