Which is funny, because religious folks love to ban it. Turns out some don’t appreciate Jesus being listed alongside Gandhi, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, and Euclid, among others.

He (well, his supporters) will be important in the caucuses. If a candidate has less than 15% of the vote at a caucus, they’re no longer considered viable and their supporters have the option to just leave or throw in with another candidate. As close as these races are, O’Malley’s supporters’ second choices could make…

Greetings, fellow turtle! =D

(like a year later) Yes to this! Manual transmission makes my tiny Saturn SL totally drivable in western Minnesota in the winter.

There’s one really good way to build your immune system: get vaccinated!

(also ugh, I hate this trope. what they mean is “making antibodies and memory T and B cells,” which is exactly what vaccines do minus the whole being-miserably-ill thing, but they don’t know that because they don’t know shit about how the immune…

My husband and I have a joint account. It just made sense. We’re agreed that anything over about $100 needs to be discussed ahead of time, but otherwise we just do what we need to do.

They said to dispose of any leftover meds mixed into the used cat litter. It absorbs liquids and gels and makes any pills super gross. If someone’s willing to dig through used cat litter for pills, I’m willing to let them have them. =/

God, yes. I’m withdrawing from Norco right now (post-surgery)... it’s just double-Vicodin, 10mg hydrocodone. Not the hardcore stuff. Took as directed every 4-6 hours for a week, then over the next two weeks tapered down to one dose a day, and now I’m off them... and I lie in bed awake all night, anxious and twitching…

The vet gave my *cat* a fentanyl patch for post-surgical pain, as well as a bunch of doses of buprenorphine to take home. I’m glad she was willing... it was an awful surgery... but she just sent me out of there with a nodding cat and a paper bag full of Schedule II substances.

Convince someone that it's for the greater good and they will commit atrocities with a clean conscience.

Fundamental attribution error. When *they* do something bad, it's because they're a bad person. When *I* do something bad, it was a silly mistake/I had a good reason/anything that lets me keep thinking of myself as a good person.

When you really need it, senna IS a gift from heaven.

And that’s another awful part of all this. Where’s the support for you? You’re not a baby-producing cog in an adoption machine. (Hell, other countries are closing their adoption processes to Americans, who basically swoop in, point and say “I want that one” like it’s a baby store, and then run off with the kid without…

A wild Libertarian appears!

They never can quite hide the heart of it, can they? It starts with giggling babies and rainbows, but the end is never anything but good old-fashioned misogyny.

new-born *healthy, white* babies.

All of the herbal methods are just a delicate balance of poisoning your body just enough to get it to abort the pregnancy, but not so much that you’re permanently damaged or die. It is a thin, thin line, and it’s impossible to know the dose you’re actually getting.

A friend told me of his years in Catholic private school. He said going to forced-birth rallies was a day off school, and if you didn’t go you got extra work. So yeah, probably a lot of them are not that into it.

Y’know, maybe your inability to see women as individuals rather than a monolith is why you fail this conversation.

You’re a lovely example of Lewis’s law: the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism. Whiny child can’t accept a woman arguing with him on the internet, therefore ALL WOMEN EVIL NO HIRE. If you’re that big of a baby, you don’t deserve your position.