Grandpa and the GOP
The last couple of days my grandfather has come perilously close to death, and really should have died. He wanted to die. My grandfather is my hero, having grown up in grinding poverty on a farm...
View ArticleSticker absenteeism
So now I'm curious. Some people have remarked upon the potentially vanishing 'W' stickers of late. As a scientist I'm interested in objective measures of attitude change. I know that this wouldn't be...
View ArticleBrainstorming health care reform on Kos
I was just given my first assignment as part of my internship working for a health policy think-tank, and I find it somewhat amusing that the first place I thought of to get some ideas was Kos. But...
View ArticleKatrina's real numbers - need help
I'm doing a summary of Katrina's toll on the elderly and those in long-term care. I've got some direction but Kossacks are always superior in getting the real numbers. The editorial I've been asked...
View ArticleDoyle (WI) vetoes "health care conscience bill"
From The Wheeler Report, October 14, 2005 DOYLE VETOES HEALTH CARE CONSCIENCE BILL Gov. Doyle on Friday vetoed AB-207, the bill known as the "health care conscience clause," saying the legislation...
View ArticleTaking pharmacists to task.
I've had enough of this activist pharmacist movement. I'm looking for Kossacks to help me brainstorm ways to put serious pressure on pharmacists' colleges and professional organizations to "help" them...
View ArticleThe uninsured in battleground states
Reading the unfortunately increasingly prolific diaries about health care and uninsurance, it occurs to me that Dems need to look to the battleground states for pertinent health care statistics, and...
View ArticlePrinceton from the outside
The Alito hearings are stirring up an unusual conflict for me. Princeton. When I used to think of Princeton - having grown up middle class -- I think of hallowed halls of knowledge, progressive...
View ArticleMy moral uterus
I was inspired by another diary where the original diarist indicated s/he did not want children because the world is so nuts, and asked if having children might not be a good idea given the current...
View ArticleAppendix:MSM::Brainstem:News
As a high schooler, I wanted to be a journalist. I wrote lots of articles for my school paper, and was editor-in-chief. I won several awards, including a writing award for an editorial on the Supreme...
View ArticleSouth Dakota is making an attempt to ban all abortions
How do you all feel now about voting for Democrats that are anti-abortion just because they're democrats?"S. Dakota House Bans Abortion to Instigate Court Fightby Catherine Komp Feb. 13 - Lawmakers in...
View ArticleWY (R) Senator escalates war on women's health care
I forwarded this Planned Parenthood press release to everyone who would not kill me for sending out a mass political mailing. A lot of these anti-woman and anti-health care privacy bills are SNUCK...
View ArticleMedical denials eroding healthcare
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. This Post piece discusses (sympathetically) the health care professionals that make decisions for people and refuse them health care that is...
View ArticleWhy even good girls don't talk to Daddy
One of the main sentiments apparently underlying a lot of the support of bills like S403 is that daughters should be encouraged to communicate with their parents so that their parents can convince them...
View ArticleThe importance of being earnest
I couldn't believe this particular email that was sent out to the listserv. The spark that began the listserv flamewar was the president of this particular state's psychology advocacy organization's...
View ArticleReligion in politics survey
I'm sorry that this is going to be a very short diary, but I am hoping that some of you would be willing to complete a survey on your view of the role that religion plays and should play in politics. I...
View ArticleDon't torture my grandma, a**holes.
My grandmother was a legend in her time. She is in the broadcaster's Hall of Fame, and was the first female CEO of a radio station. She came from a family of radio royalty, and met my grandfather...
View ArticleBread and Circuses
I was almost a journalist. In high school, I won all kinds of awards for journalistic writing. I was the Editor-In-Chief of the school paper, and I got several invitations to enter from year one into...
View ArticleWhile we all sleep - they delete abortion on Monday.
Everyone has been so distracted by the election that no one has been paying attention to single issues -- and by this single issue I mean abortion and reproductive justice.Well, while we were sleeping,...
View ArticleMy dearest brother...how could you?
Dear Brother,You know what I do for a living. You know that I work to make sure that the underserved and uninsured get proper and evidence-based healthcare, especially reproductive health services...
View ArticleSouth Dakota anti-abortion law ruled constitutional
Everyone's been talking theoretically about the everlasting legacy of Bush(es) nomination of conservative judges with an eye to overturning Roe. One of the Fundies' strategies is death by a thousand...
View ArticleDear Cindy and Laura,
I didn't sleep very well last night. One of the reasons was that I had gotten the news about the proposed redefinition of contraception to mean abortion. As I'm sure I don't need to tell you, this...
View ArticleThat planet must be a nice place
I suppose it was only a matter of time until the chaos and economic implosion came home.Mr. Janus and I had been doing fairly well in our respective jobs. For the past few months I was aggressively...
View ArticleHHS "Bush Rule" released.
http://online.wsj.com/...HHS Secretary Leavitt has made the HHS health provider "conscience clause" a proposed rule that will go into effect in 30 days after the comment period. This rule does not...
View ArticleThe price of anti-intellectualism
It wasn't there for very long.Every day I get into work and check out my page on iGoogle. I have my custom page set up to give me the general headlines, as well as those in business, health, and...
View Article"Yonder Sits the Fourth Estate"
After the French Revolution, Edmund Burke referred to the Press Gallery in the House of Commons as "The Fourth Estate." He indicated that they were more important than the clergy, nobles, and commoners...
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The Haunting, or The Family Narrative
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) When I was practicing as a psychologist, we used to talk frequently of the family narrative. The family narrative...
View ArticleFitness Monday: Getting Fit On The Cheap
Good morning, fellow fitness enthusiasts!I tossed around what I was going to write today, waffling between this topic and gym etiquette, but then I went to my mixed martial arts class and noticed a...
View ArticleSlammed by economy; still donating
My husband lost his job a few months ago and we are nearing the end of our "cushion". We are getting to the point that we might have to borrow money from a parent. Oh, and he's in his forties and I'm...
View ArticleVoting for "that socialist pig"
I just got off the phone with my brother, a small business owner in NYC.We talked about my husband's difficulty finding a job, and that I felt that a lot of the companies my husband is discussing...
View ArticleDon't forget the propositions
There are many of us who have our basic human rights entangled with the propositions. Please if you get information on whether these pass or not, please post it.
View ArticleDeMint Amendment jeopardizes birth control access
Yesterday, Planned Parenthood posted here about the attempt to strip Title X funding from Planned Parenthood, courtesy of Vitter.Since that time, the anti-choice senator DeMint has introduced an...
View ArticleGay or not maternal? We'll fix you.
Research into hormone treatment for fetuses that are intersex has been ongoing, courtesy of a female pediatric endocrinologist and a psychologist interested in the role hormones play in homosexuality....
View ArticleWI: The psychological variable
I don't know whether to be angry or laugh. Laughing seems somewhat inappropriate, and being angry just seems futile. So, I am writing this in the hopes that perhaps some people will realize exactly...
View ArticleI don't understand
I grew up in Wisconsin, and I went to undergrad at Madison. My parents grew up in Wisconsin, and went to undergrad at Madison. My grandparents grew up in Wisconsin, and also went to Madison.My...
View ArticleDear...well, everyone
I realize I am lucky. One day during Bush's (second) presidency, I happened to have good healthcare. I had been reading about his attempts to enshrine "conscience clauses" into the Department of...
View ArticleWho gave employers these rights?
I would really like to know who told this hiring manager it was within his rights, and advisable, to send me an email detailing everything that was wrong with me.Of course, it included that I didn't...
View ArticleThe banality of evil
The very handsome and benign-looking ten year old was sitting in my office, in my client's chair, looking kind of bored.I had been asked by his school to assess him for dangerousness. During recess,...
View ArticleThanatos: this is the end
This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end -- The Doors My husband and I were in the car driving to the farmer's market, early yesterday...
View ArticleThe delusion is astonishing
I've written before about my parents. They live in Wisconsin, where I grew up, and my mother is now retired from teaching. My father is a retired engineer who now has several chronic medical problems...
View ArticleWhat to do if they run
There is much talk lately of a pass-and-run on the part of House Republicans.My question is, where are they going to go?Home?Let's hope so!
View Article35 Feet
I didn't really plan on writing a diary today. I am supposed to be working. The first notice I got that the buffer zone legislation had been overturned was from Planned Parenthood Action Fund.I kind...
View ArticleThe Headstone
The day before yesterday I went for a run. I was on vacation so I was running someplace new. My Strava route took me past a cemetery. Cemeteries are pretty good to run in, because the chances of you...
View ArticleAxis II: NPD; Cog Fx: Ox3; Judgmt/Insigt: Poor; Imp Ctl: Poor
Donald Trump is not demented or mentally ill.I shake my head as people speculate about what is wrong with him now; that he seems ‘divorced from reality’ or ‘why would he go after the sacrosanct’ or...
View ArticleWe Need to Be Dismantling Pence, Now!
I have to say that I am concerned.Maybe it is in a concern troll sort of way. But I don’t think so.As some people here know, I have worked for Planned Parenthood, and wrote all about security related...
View Article"Poll trolls," or, just another day in Pro-Choice Land
This diary about North Carolina caught my eye for a brief discussion of ‘poll trolls”— otherwise known as Trump’s devotees engaged in intimidating voters outside poll stations through such methods as...
View ArticleThere Will Be Blood: My 11 Minute Uber Ride
In spite of the rain forecast, I decided to run without rain gear. That turned out to be a mistake.I’m training for a half marathon and my schedule had me run 45 minutes to 1 hour today. About 40...
View ArticleAmerica, the ignorant
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your...
View ArticleThe Blue and the Red
I remember my AP American history book in the 1980s. It was amazingly thick. Somewhat intimidating, even for a good reader. I did have incentive to pay attention that year, though, as I could receive...
View ArticleMy hair is on fire. Why isn't yours?
I find Kos abortion diaries infuriating.If someone isn’t talking about how abortion is a more minor concern in the current climate, they’re coming up with reasons why states will never outlaw abortion...
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