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Subbing for Anthony McCarthy today. Please use the comments for your poetry, thoughts and topics you'd like to talk about. Even recipes (for food, love or life).
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This animated map of the growth of U.S. unemployment figures is fascinating in a horrible way. (Via David Derbes)
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Have you had the H1N1 (a k a swine) flu? I went to an internist yesterday who said I probably had a flu of some sort and gave me Tamiflu. She explained that a good test to determine H1N1 costs $300, isn't covered by most insurance, and thus, few people get it.
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ESPN's "Body Issue" arrived free in the mail last month. (In other words, I got it whether I wanted it or not.) The inaugural issue had six covers of naked athletes, four female and two male. It's amazing how women have come to dominate sports coverage . I happened to get the magazine with ...
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I never get my head around the fact that so many Americans worship Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. They are not even in the list of approved goddesses and gods, not even in the subcategory of interesting monsters. Now they are telling us that the new mammography recommendations are a commie plot ...
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I have not yet had time to go through the Senate health care reform proposal as it applies to reproductive health , but others suggest that it's better than Stupak. Well, almost anything is better than Stupak.
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Bart Stupak
The new CNN poll asks this question about health insurance coverage for abortion: Generally speaking, are you in favor of using public funds for abortions when the woman cannot afford it, or are you opposed to that? The answers are 67% opposing the use of public funds and 37% favoring their ...
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As I've mentioned before, the Stupak amendment expands the outreach of the Hyde amendment. It would also make it a permanent law. It is very odd to find a Democratic Congress doing more damage to reproductive rights than the last eight years of Bush, very odd indeed. Two research papers (one ...
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Bart Stupak
1. This article on the new mammography recommendations is well worth reading for the additional information it gives us. 2. Trigger warning: A Danish campaign aiming to make people more aware of violence against women doesn't work very well . It's never a good idea to make violence into a ...
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Masculinity is a fragile and serious business . You can find out if you are a real guy in this promotion from an underwear manufacturer. To get the whole flavor of it, answer that you are a model and not a guy and see what kinds of questions you get. Then go back and start again a different ...
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The new mammogram recommendations have caused a lot of arguments. This is not unexpected at all, because the earlier recommendations sure did sell mammograms as the way to beat breast cancer, and now we are all supposed to do a 180 degrees turn! But the truth is that a mammogram is a form of ...
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Reproductive choice, that is, and Jeffrey Toobin gets it in his excellent New Yorker article. All of it is worth reading but especially the end : But, as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed not long ago, abortion rights "center on a woman's autonomy to determine her life's ...
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Peter Beinart's piece (a few days old, thanks blondie for the link) is truly like a breath of fresh air, invigorating, testosterone-laden fresh air. He lays out in detail the reasons why the Democratic Party started losing power : Yet it was that big, ugly Democratic Party that from Franklin ...
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Democratic National Committee
Remember that globalization thing? Remember how good it was going to be for all of us? Cheaper imports, more jobs for everyone! Ice-cream yesterday and tomorrow! Now read this : American workers are overpaid, relative to equally productive employees elsewhere doing the same work. If the global ...
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(Sumerian headdress worn by Queen Shub-Ad) Coincidences can be interesting. I was reading about Michelle Obama's rating s as the First Lady and then the reader comments to that story. The "First Lady articles" always make me feel as if I had just been stung by several hundred bees and as if ...
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You can send a coathanger message to all those who voted for the Stupak amendment here . What is truly fascinating, though, is the initial form of the Stupak amendment: It would not have allowed payment for all abortions resulting from rape but only those cases where the rape was forcible ! ...
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Bart Stupak
As you may or may not know, Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner have written a new book called SuperFreakonomics . Like all their work, it's incredibly provocative and daring and politically incorrect and not for the faint of heart. For instance, it goes so far as to suggest that climate scientists ...
