Having one of my "up" periods no one ever believes me about, where I can't sleep for more than four hours at a time and am going to bed at 6am because I feel allergic to sleeping at night, and can't concentrate on anything for longer than ten seconds at a time. Sick. I hurt all over. I hurt just sitting here. My throat hurts like I have strep ( Read more... )

anyone here who lives in Wyoming or knows someone in Wyoming? my sister is broken down in Casper (I have no idea why she is there) and could use some help, she is looking for a tow to get to tennessee because her nursing school program in Vanderbilt starts up soon. I have no idea what's wrong with her car, but while we are in wyoming we don't ( Read more... )

Georgia passes "women as livestock" bill.

http://jezebel.com/5881057/susan-g-komen-foundation-bows-to-pro+life-bullying-stops-contributing-to-planned-parenthoodRead more... )

https://secure.ppaction.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=pp_ppol_ws_I_Stand_with_PP&s_src=standwithppfeb2011_taf

If you stand with Planned Parenthood, sign your name.

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Stop Hitting On Me.

By way of someone else on livejournal I was shown this online journal entry about the subject of the social victimization of women, and I think it's worth linking to it. It reminded me of the situations endemic in all societies, where women are victimized in subtle ways you can't really notice until it hurts. It reminded me of people I know who ( Read more... )

Michael Vick's unpaid dues: Why dog advocates aren't moving on.

Courtsey SFGate.

Europe has just lost over a thousand years of political evolution.

The moment of political unity, schemed for since the Rome Treaty in 1957, comes just as all the old problems of the European Continent, economic, political, religious and social, begin to re-emerge in new and tricky shapes ( Read more... )