CRANKY

Today I am the crankiest. I do not know why. I woke up with a sneer and it’s just sort of stayed there. I am trying to breathe, trying not to grasp, trying to be centered and aware, and all I find at my center of awareness is CRANKY. Which, okay, now that I’m thinking [...]

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The Pill

The Feministing blog put up this request recently:
Check out this author’s query from Elaine Tyler May, amazing feminist historian and big fan of feministing. (She’s the one who wrote feminist classic Homeward Bound, that I reviewed alongside Faludi last month.) Please, please take some time and respond!
The Pill is often considered one of the most [...]

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06/2006

On its way to Blanco’s (a Democrat, by the way) desk, who has professed she will sign it (a Schlafly, by the way).
You can find some decent news coverage of it simply by typing “Louisiana anti-abortion bill” into Google. I had collected a bunch of nice links for you but my computer crashed so you [...]

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05/2006 Part V

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/04/28/louisiana/
Last week in committee debate on the issue, Sen. Diana Bajoie, D-New Orleans, opposed allowing abortions to save the life of the mother, saying she wanted to “make [the ban] more pro-life” by not allowing any exceptions.
Bajoie, by the way, AKA Tower of Hair. Some nice thingsshe’s done:
As a state legislator, Bajoie has led the [...]

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05/2006 Part IV

Can’t recall if I posted this one before. Seems like something I would have. This comes from an email Planned Parenthood sent out (note: I highly recommend getting on their mailing list — you wouldn’t believe the stuff CNN “forgets” to report on… heard anything about South Dakota lately? I didn’t think so).
An Indiana mother [...]

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