Despite the fact that parents are requesting the cervical cancer vaccine for their daughters, doctors are not carrying it and insurance companies aren't covering it. Part of the problem is due to the fact that the medical establishment has to slug its way through bureaucractic procedure, but it certainly doesn't help that the vaccine costs nearly ( Read more... )

A local columnist for the St Pete Times, Robyn Blumner, wrote this column last week, in which she took the "manly" foreign policy of Bush & Co. to task for completely failing to do a damn thing right. I read it, I thought it was a good column, I moved on ( Read more... )

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Sometimes I think I would be the happiest girl in the world if I had a yard full of southern magnolia, jacaranda and live oak trees draped in Spanish moss. I would just sit under them and let the petals fall onto my head, and I would never wash them out of my hair.


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99 reasons to go on after november third ( Read more... )

From belladonnalinBest way to get back at Bill Napoli for his perverted, drooling statements about the singular worthiness of abortion access for young, religious virgins who are raped ( Read more... )

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In honor of Bill Napoli, these industrious ladies have taken it upon themselves to coin a new phrase for the national lexicon. Much as Dan Savage saddled Rick Santorum with the indignity of sharing his name with the 'frothy mix of fecal matter and lube that results from anal sex', there is a movement underfoot to associate napoli with the ( Read more... )

If there is someone on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

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