Would you kick a kid in the face?

Cause if you’d kick a kid in the face, maybe this isn’t for you. But even child-free folks like myself would like a world where kids don’t have to face poverty, unsafe conditions, lack of healthcare, cuts in education … and, you know, stuff like that. In fact, there’s going to be a forum on…

The system works

Planned Parenthood sent out an update on their progress to influence the platforms for the Nevada Democrats and Republicans. Thought I’d share: Nevada Caucus Update This weekend a six month long campaign to influence the party platform for both the Democratic and Republican parties at every level of state office culminated in a win. The…

Reaching out into the ether

So I’ve been wrestling with whether or not to talk about this on the blog, but I think it’s worth a shot because if anyone can offer me some tangible help … well, it would mean a lot. Recently, I found out my 35-year-old cousin has cancer. She’s always been in basically good health and…

Bad medicine

Like a lot of people, I was pretty freaked out when the news broke last week about a potential link between the prescription drug Singulair and suicides. Singulair, made by Merck, is used to treat asthma (that’s me) and allergies and is available in doses ranging from children to adults. According to news reports, while…

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Remember the whole birth control costs rising 900% thing? Remember how all it would take is an easy vote in Congress to fix it (at no cost to taxpayers, since it would just reestablish an existing program)? Well, the electeds have done jack about it and now there are women who are really struggling to get access to affordable birth…