And what is the proposed solution to this?!

Martin O’Malley couldn’t get his own deputy elected governor, and now Maryland (!) has a Republican governor who is gutting public schools.

Also, he’s got lady problems.

Thanks for your perspective here. Can I ask how many unmedicated vaginal deliveries you saw during your OB clerkship? One thing that always struck me when I was dealing with OBs (before I switched to CNMs) was how few births they seemed to have been present for that didn’t need their help. At the time, I figured it…

The thing I like about your comment is that you seem to see that the OB/patient relationship is a two-way partnership to your preferred birth outcome. Having an unmedicated birth was important to me, so I did a lot in the pregnancy phase to make it more likely. Exercise, stretching, developing pain management…

Anecdata Alert: In my experience, the problem isn’t so much doctors pushing c-sections on women that don’t want them (although that definitely happens). The bigger issue is that the doctor insists on interventions hours before the c-section that make the c-section all but inevitable. That’s where a doula comes in…

Yeah, I could have been more clear. The concern isn’t passing around illness - it is that adult mouths have bacteria that are bad for baby teeth.

Remind yourself that this particular baby is from the 1%, and will almost certainly be a lacrosse playing douche bro at Duke in 18 years.

So, I read that the problem with putting stuff in your mouth isn’t germs - it’s something that’s bad for the childrens’ teeth. Bacteria? At any rate, it hasn’t stopped me.

Yep. This. He is an MP, but that’s not really the point. The point is that he’s the PM.

He’s also Sarkisian’s toady, and by accounts an uneducated lout, but that’s a conversation for a different day.

This op-ed does a good job summing up the problems with his stand-up and how he talks about Black Americans. Basically, he allies himself with White America to make fun of Black folks.

Right?!! I really wanted a part of that story to be about how she’s getting the eff out of Dodge and will be in Northampton or Berkeley next year.

I'm also a little bothered by Jez breathlessly passing along rumors about Bruce Jenner's transition. I know this is Dirtbag, but why not give that one topic a break?

It's not a perfect system, but I wouldn't look to places that will give you *unlimited shrimp* for, like, $10. Seafood should be that cheap, unless you are literally on the ocean and it's being hauled in from the boats directly to the seaside shack where you are dining.

Slovakia, and the ethnic Roma.

I used to live someplace where sterilization of a particular unwanted ethnic minority group was ongoing through the 2000s. It's horrifying, but it's not at all in our distant past.

I don't know that a judge could make such an order in perpetuity, but a judge can definitely do it via repeat order until a woman is no longer fertile. I know more than one person who adopted a child out of foster care, and was called to see if they wanted their child's (half) sibling because the mom was pregnant…

Agreed. The vocabulary lessons are good, and Nancy occasionally learns funny lessons about life. I mean, I wish my kindergartner wanted to read biographies of women in science/politics/civic life all day, but the Fancy Nancy books get her reading and learning new words, so I'll take it.

Sestra-Brat' if we're being pedantic (and I am)

This is the blog post that introduced me to the Evelyn Evelyn controversy. The web address is http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/02/09/eve…

I found the blog post to be respectful and well-articulated. Not hyperbolic and stalkerish, and calling out both Palmer and Webley. So, when Palmer tweeted about ignoring…

I think Webley got less shit Evelyn Evelyn because his response was to genuinely investigate why folks were upset, and then write an open letter of apology (http://www.jasonwebley.com/weblog/?p=4)

Palmer's response was to mock "disabled feminists" on Twitter.