i suspect that being jailed for truancy would be part of her school transcript

if you don't want to stop drinking entirely, sarah — and, given the stress of our lives and the social organization around it, and can't blame you — maybe you can set ground rules for yourself? like no drinking before a certain hour ... no drinking alone ... maybe even no mixing booze with narcotics (specifically that…

hells, yes ... why not congratulations and a hand shake, knowing that they are being responsible? in a world full of stress, sadness, and pleasures that are few and far between or hard to afford, sex is something we can freely enjoy, reaping myriad physical and psychic benefits ... we are programed to want it and like…

yes, i should have used the quotation marks, and usually do ... but i'll admit that i am starting to get a little cheesed off at american christians in general, because they are financially supporting organizations like the catholic church that are doing grave harm to women's lives and the sexual well-being of us all…

thanks, miriam

since i was wearing a d-cup by the age of 12, i'm pretty much an expert on street harassment ... by the time i was 16, i was pretty tired of feeling like a bulls eye for creepy old guy lust, and i segued from scared little girl to angry little bitch ... a girlfriend of mine and i took to driving around town and…

all i can figure is that christian kids are out of control ... i mean, none of us can talk about, read about, or see anything sexual, because christian parents simply cannot stop their kids from doing the same ... and if a christian kid is exposed to something sex-related — gay, straight, it doesn't matter — then…

it's simple: guys who have risen from the dead, yes ... live guys rising, no

if you cannot deal with a .1% risk, i do recommend abstinence after all ... you are not prepared to deal with the realities of your biology and the possibility that a woman you may inseminate is not on the same parenting/abortion page as you

screw you, lady, but my concept of god totally loves it when i lie to people who have placed their trust in me and paid their hard-earned money for my services, causing decades of misery for all but me! you're life is hell, but i'm going to heaven!

if a law indemnifying doctors and techs for lying to their patients about a fetus is on a state's books, i doubt that that same state would then have grounds to revoke a physician's license

if you don't want to be a parent because some woman dickishly insists upon incubating the product of your sperm and her egg, you should take responsibility for your birth control ... i'm not keen on abstinence, so i won't recommend that, but using a condom + spermicide has failure rate of .1% ... pretty much fool…

i am shocked — but not really, given the economic realities — to hear that the IHS would require you to apply for medicare before giving you coverage

the indian health service (IHS) is a federally-funded single payer health care system, to which all native americans in all states are, in theory, guaranteed access ... there is considerable uncertainty, however, over who is a "native american" ... and because it is underfunded, the IHS relies heavily upon medicare,…

actually, i did some more research and discovered that the indian civil rights act was amended to allow tribal courts to hand out a 1-year sentence ... so, if the federal government feels like giving a native-american hospital rape kits, and the tribal police resources to investigate her rape, a native-american woman…

for clarification: tribal courts have no criminal jurisdiction over non-indians, so if a native-american woman is raped by a non-indian, she must seek justice from a federal or state court ... if she is raped by another native american, tribal courts are limited to sentences of 6 months in jail and a $5,000 fine ...…

we have seemingly-unlimited resources to hunt down, prosecute, and incarcerate medical marijuana users and undocumented immigrants but so little for these native-american women, whose welfare we have grossly and irrevocably damaged? yeah, we're number one!

tweeted by Jillian yesterday: "i'm really happy to share that my daughter is finally home & my son was born on 5/3"

alas, women seem to have forgotten that bras were once burned so that they could be free to flaunt their natural, floppy boobies

at my appalachian high school, we had country-fried steak and collard greens and fresh-made white cornbread ... weee-doggie!