I suppose how I started my entire career? It wasn’t really shady, I was honest about it.

The holdup is over the status of Northern Ireland. Remember, the island of Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state and member of the EU whose capital is Dublin, and Northern Ireland - a province in the United Kingdom whose capital is in London (normally it is administered by an assembly…

Intro: there’s been drama.
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Journalism drama
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Coworker drama
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Email drama
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Twitter drama
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Conclusion: there’s been drama.

Canadian here, my wife gave birth last year... We received free ultrasounds and prenatal testing throughout, free access to midwifery care, free access to a birth centre that was like a hotel suit with a fireplace and a tub. My wife had complications, we were transferred to a hospital (for free), had an emergency…

I’m so sorry.

Staff or The Root has been shredding it in print and on the air on the Unearned Presumption of Merit that White People Get

The difference is you articulated that much much better than he did and didn’t erase or invalidate entire parts of society when doing so.

Saying every child needs a mother and father is the drum that conservatives have been beating for centuries. It’s baked into racism-based incarceration. If you jail black men, you…

She is next Kardashian

Yeah, when I saw she was in her first year at a top MATH PhD program, I wondered about this...sounds like she was immensely talented, and it takes a very high achiever to accomplish what she did by the age of 23. PhD programs can really exacerbate existing mental health issues, especially in the first year, when…

Job update: I had my interview Wednesday morning at 9:30, so I went up the night before. This is the view that greeted me from my hotel window:

Hi Jezzies, a few of you will remember that I was homeless and then finally got rehoused by the council into a flat last year. The block the flat is in is awful and full of drug dealers and that I am the only female in the block. I posted last year that my doctor had written to the council to say that I needed to be…

In her brief, Goessling cited a researcher who wrote, “Women who are confronted with a sexual assault are significantly less likely to experience a completed rape if they resist with a weapon.”

I have a constant problem with strange criminals showing up and doing unwanted yard work on my front lawn.  It’s gotten to the point where I’ve had to hire a full time good guy with a rake to keep them away!

Gun hands are the answer. Clearly until we’re all outfitted with one hand that is a gun that can be fired at all times we will never be a safe society. Will there be misfires causing easily preventable deaths and wounds? Almost certainly! That's just the price you pay to eliminate rape.

I just want to say speaking from someone who works in maternity (albeit not in the US), you have options for a breech baby but often vaginal breech delivery if this is your first baby is not a safe one. All obstetricians I have worked with would not do a breech delivery on a first time mom. The reason for this is…

No you are not being unreasonable AT ALL. I am sorry that your family hasn’t been better to you. You deserve to be heard & respected and so did the child that you were.

Job update: Two week after learning that I didn’t get the job I wanted at the Cleveland Clinic, I put in applications for three other CCF pharmacy positions. There was radio silence for several weeks, and just when I was about to give up, I got an email that my application for a regulatory position was under review.…

I GOT THE JOB. I GOT THE JOB. I GOT THE JOB!!!!! We just have to make it through March and we will be OK. I am about a week out from being able to reclaim unemployment but I am not sure how that will work. I am assuming I won’t qualify but I am going to try. I did a modest means application but you have to be working…

Thank you. It was sort of a defining moment for me. It was probably my first exposure to cruelty but I knew I wanted no part of it. I don't know what became of her. I hope she grew up happy and strong.