Women's Health
Amy Sedaris on the importance of vagina cleansing
If you want to be a good hostess, you just got to know about these things. It's important to get rid of unpleasant secretions before dinner and in time for that after dinner minty (or mangoey) delight.
And you know that nothing spoils a dinner like vagina secretions.
BTW : I can't believe Todd Oldham "went there" with this joke.
"Sarah Palin and the rape kits" is not a punk rock band (but it explains her interview with Katie Couric)
Skepticism about Palin has been growing and for a good reason.
I've watched the segment where Sarah Palin talks about Roe vs. Wade and I have to tell you, I think it is one of the most insightful commentaries to come out of her mouth. I think she did a really good job at sounding level headed.
Yet listen to it very closely and what you can hear is an extremist taking her political views for a little mainstream spin and, fortunately for us, coming short.
So let me back track here a bit and go back to and issue that popped up a few weeks ago : Under then Mayor Palin, Wassilla was one of a handful of cities in Alaska that charged victims for rape kits. And what has been most astounding about this policy is Palin's response to the allegations : She claims to have not know about the practice. This from a woman that was voted into office in Wassilla by less than 7,000 votes.
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What to expect when you're expecting a mammogram?
So, like, 'tis the first time I get a mammogram --I guess I am finally of a certain age. Aside of knowing that my tits are going to get squished into a machine, I have no idea what else is involved.
Anybody care to share their stories?
Is it going to hurt? Is it going to tickle? Do I get results immediately? Do I get a lollipop at the end?
Pittsburgh says to tell you hello
Well, not the entire city of Pittsburgh -- only 2000 people sitting in a big room in Pittsburgh.
They're all here for the same macro reason I am, which is to attend the Women's Health & the Environment Conference. Only a handful of them are here for the same micro reason I am, which is to live-blog the conference over the intertubes.
Rather than tie up this shared laptop by repeating here what's being said there, I'll just point you guys to a few of the live-blogging threads where we're doing the play-by-play, in case any CKers want to visit Pittsburgh by proxy too:
http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2007/04/live_blog_nati...
Dear SCOTUS: If you haven't had one, then you need to STFU.
Three things to make note of before we start wading into this blog entry together, folks...
First,this is the Salon story that triggered this blog entry: http://tinyurl.com/24shpw
Second, this blog entry was originally intended to be an 8-paragraph comment to a diary on dKos dealing with the above story. My plan was to use paragraph 7 to summarize what turned out to be the rest of this blog entry as efficiently as I had the ones above it, then wrap it up succinctly & pithily in paragraph 8.
Third, apparently the material in this blog entry was something that I needed to write for a long time and finally found a voice for. So much for keeping it to 8 paragraphs on dKos. You get the whole thing here instead.
But you know what? For those in the audience who've been wondering WTF a guy like me is doing posting to feminist blogs, this is a significant chunk of the backstory for that. So make of it what you will.
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One of the things that really, really chaps my ass is what a small percentage of the people bloviating away about abortions, on both the right and the left sides of the fence, actually have any first-hand experience with them.
I'm sorry, SCOTUS. And I'm sorry, Fux News Channel. But... if you ain't been there done that, then you can't know. You just can't fucking know.
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Spiritual Warfare: Oiling the Wheels of Government?
from Talk to Action
Just over a year ago, a group of veteran spiritual warriors for the religious right — including men who began their careers in the most radical fringes of the anti-abortion movement — sneaked into a Senate hearing room to "consecrate" the chamber with holy oil.
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wondered about the legality of this holy trespass.
Do not be surprised if, at some point during next week's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, a trumpet blast is sounded in the hearing room, winged angels descend, and Democrats on the Judiciary Committee turn into pillars of salt.
This undoubtedly would be the wish of the Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council. He held a news conference outside the Hart Office Building yesterday to announce that he would "consecrate Room 216 Hart" -- the hearing room -- in hopes of having, in the sacred words of Fox News, "a fair and balanced hearing."
"By dedicating it to God, we look to God to orchestrate and direct the activities that take place at that location," Schenck ... explained to the television cameras. It's unclear if this would violate Senate rules, which give Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) sole authority to direct activities in the hearing room.
Rep. David Swinford, who nominally rules the Texas House State Affairs Committee, now has had that authority usurped by the religious right as well. According to at least one Catholic anti-choice activist, the hearing room of Swinford's committee was given a clandestine inoculation against demonic pro-choice influences before its April 2 hearing on abortion-related bills.
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