The Boomers are solely responsible for the gerrymandering that exists today. Texas being my fave and most personal example. They are also responsible for gutting education while I was growing up, and also for gutting all the infrastructure that allowed them to be so successful via reaganomics. So yeah, my demo might…

Yeah it’s not the “home” part of this that is horrifying. It’s the “alone” bit and the prohibiting of any other options or interventions. 

The thing is? Bodies don’t really know shit. We die from literally countless things and in the main it’s because the body cannot recover from whatever it was that damaged it. 

Even giving birth COMPLETELY alone has got to be a historical anomaly for women who just happened to live exceptionally isolated lives (I’m thinking pioneer women of the American west who maybe have been homesteading some remote patch of land, for example). Even before births were attended by trained and licensed…

this radical work of healing the deepest wounds on this earth

I get mistrust of the US health care system. I really do. But it wasn’t THAT long ago that childbirth was a leading cause of death for women. Forgive the expression, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I wish that my three children didn’t require surgical intervention to enter the world. The havoc those C sections have wreaked on my back and abs can’t be overstated.

Home birth can be great for some women, but the fact that this group deletes any advise that counters their beliefs and doesn’t make room for other treatment options makes them a cult, and a very dangerous one at that.

WTF is the point of living in modern times if a person doesn’t avail herself of some of its luxuries, like a freaking pre-natal appointment to a midwife or something? Yet she will chatter on FB about the “primal instinct” that takes over. Guess what? Birthing can be pretty deadly, just look at history. But no, the…

The 2 judges that were responsible for incarcerating 1/5th of the Texas juvenile prison system (95% of whom were minorities) both lost their seats yesterday.

Peter Roskam (and his big pile of NRA money) lost in Illinois. I know I should be excited on political grounds but right now I’m thrilled that I will no longer have to deal with his smug and unresponsive office staff when I call my representative.

My friend’s water broke this morning but she stopped to vote on the way to the hospital. Her daughter is going to be fierce as fuck!

Our cat, Jacques, went as Jacques the Ripper last year. (This year he had a cow outfit that he was not having.)

I was Use Your Illusion era Axl Rose, so I got to act like an entitled jerk all night :D

I went with a nautical theme for my cats’ costumes this year.

We went as Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, so timely we are not.

Screw Cats

Myrtle Snow at the stake.