October 2009
“How did hormone replacement therapy become so popular for American women going...”
– Big Pharma Writes Script For Menopause Research (via tryingtofollow) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Big Pharma has created several medical conditions that never existed before in order to repackage medication for resale. The one that immediately springs to mind is the “condition” where you...
this is the only acceptable response
abbyjean:
via think progress:
Recently, a reporter with right-wing press outlet CNSNews asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whether health reform violates the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution. The Speaker gave the question exactly as much respect as it deserved:
CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health...
“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, “Yes, I’ve got...”
– Erma Bombeck (via justbesplendid) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
The Bureau of Caucasian Affairs
jadedhippy:
guerrillamamamedicine:
lalilster:
deltafoxtrot:
The Bureau of Caucasian Affairs
(UNA) United Native Americans is proud to announce that it has bought the state of California from the whites and is throwing it open to Indian settlement. UNA bought California from three winos found wandering in San Francisco. UNA decided the winos were the spokesmen for the white people of...
“you start trippin
and i start slippin away
i was taught to zip it
if i got...”
– more folk singer
“she was cuffed to the truth like the truth was a chair
bright interrogation...”
– a little folk singer
“This is great news for every Californian whose life has been devastated by...”
– Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, on signing an emergency bill that restores more than $16 million to domestic violence programs and shelters in California. The funding had been eliminated by the Governor through line-item veto in July. (via abbyjean)
WTF? I mean, yes, THANK GOD the funding has been...
“too many people in the u.s. support death and destruction without being aware of...”
– assata shakur, ‘assata:an autobiography’ (via gypsyriot) (via y0cupcake) (via parisdenise) (via drinkyourlavendersoda) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Even many who are aware choose to ignore it. The fights that I have had with my mother in law over just these things is epic. I have lost friends over...
facepalm
My mother in law is an asshole. I have adjusted to this fact. Anyone who can scream about “fucking kikes” in front of her Jewish daughter-in-law is an asshole.
So I should not be surprised when her assholishness shows even more, right?
She called Barney Frank “…the fag who lisps because he sucked too many dicks in DC.” at dinner the other night and considers that...
Does anyone have any suggestions for Blackberry apps that will let me use my Blogger, Wordpress, Livejournal and Twitter accounts?
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals,...”
– Confucius (via woocie) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
homophobia > national security
abbyjean:
The Defense Authorization Bill will go on to president Obama for his signature. Conservatives in the Senate filibustered the defense authorization because it contains an amendment meant to protect homosexuals from hate crimes. Chris Johnson at the Washington Blade describes the amendment:
“The hate crimes provision, known as the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes...
“she went over to his apartment
clutching her decision
and he said, did you...”
– School Night
by Ani Difranco
Watchsexartandpolitics:
Rachel Maddow addresses White House fight with Fox News.
Good stuff.
Rachel Maddow makes me so very happy
“to split yourself in two
is just the most radical thing you can do
so girl if...”
The 237 Reasons Why Women Have Sex →
rosasparks:
gamesockson:
sparklepants:
The 1 reason I have sex: horniness.
#2: I was told there would be tacos.
#3 It’s fun to be naked and sweaty! I like sleeping in strange, wet spots!
#4 I subsist on manjuice.
Fuck it..
Fuck politics, fuck social action, fuck giving a shit. I am going to sit around all day looking at pictures of cute kittens and puppies, because that makes me FUCKING HAPPY.
(No not actualy, but I have been dealing with some heavy burnout this year.)
“Most people grow up with a general, unstated and unexamined belief that there...”
– Street harassment « Fugitivus (via guerrillamamamedicine)
“I have never been so humiliated. A robe that covered a third of my body, a nurse...”
– PCOS isn’t a real disease, it’s made up by fat women. - First, Do No Harm
The fuck.
(via notemily)
(via abbyjean)
(via thecurvature)
My spouse doesn’t believe that this happens to people.
