Anna,

You are absolutely right - this is not an over the counter solution. Interesting that any child can walk into a Walgreens and buy a pack of "Chasers" hangover remedy (which, from my understanding of the FDA's reasoning) should only be available behind the counter to persons 21 or older, since it's a solution to a problem that they are not old enough to have.

After doing a little more research I discovered that the age of consent in here in Colorado (as of law passed in 2000) is so flexible that it's okay for 14 year olds to have sex with 10 year olds, or technically, 4-year olds to mate with 1-year olds (http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/lcsstaff/2002/research/issuebrft02-10.pdf), so really why are we putting any limits on access to emergency birth control at all? It looks like all girls, of all ages need to have access to it - at least in Colorado. I guess I can see that the 1 year old probably doesn't need it, but the 10 year old sure as hell might.

To find out how much it would take to get Jake in one of the promotional onesies for my cult...(http://www.cafepress.com/shinracult.52716972)

I've been reading the "Blogging the Bible" series over on Slate (yes, I know, I know, but I finish all the articles on Salon before I go there to read...) and have found the bits of information related to abortion that have come up so far very revealing. The three big ones are that the Bible says pretty clearly that life begins when you first draw breath, that if a man harms a woman and causes her to miscarry, he owes her husband money, but does not suffer the penalty for murder, and the ritual specified for "purifying" a female adulterer sounds a lot like adminstering pennyroyal as an abortficant.

Seems pretty straight forward to me - the authors of the bible are fine with abortion. Of course, the authors of the bible were also fine with god killing off generations of first born son's multiple times to punish their parents, so you probably can't really look there for any sort of, you know, moral compass.

This whole "18 or over" arguement doesn't make any sense in any case. Is there a single state in the union where the age of consent is strictly above 18? I don't think so - all of them are 16 (or less), assuming the participants are within few years of each other's age. Since the laws already clearly state that this age is approriate for engaging in sex, then certainly the age for preventing (note, not ending) an unplanned pregnancy CANNOT be any less.

Since "we" (and by "we", I mean "them") are in favor of states rights, shouldn't the age to buy over the counter emergency contaception be determined by the minimum age at which it's legal to have sex in a state? In many states this age comes out to 12 years old. I assume that the pharmacist does not need to confirm that girl's partner 16 not over 16 before determining whether or not a specific sale is legal.

Or are we trying to encourage teen pregnancy these days? I get confused about that.

To paraphrase Charles Foster Kane "If the girl is smart enough, it makes the cover smart enough!".

Oh, and I have always thought that Maggie Gyllenhaal was gorgeous - not sure who the writer above has been looking at. Traditionally "celeb-boring-pretty" no, but average!?!? Never average.

Glad that the one sided vows are gone, but I have to say that I think that it would be a GREAT idea if BOTH parties had vows that said they promised to live with the annoying things the other party does, and promise not to intentionally push their partner's buttons. Seems to me like a lot of divorces come about because people don't realize they are going to have to actually live with a person with flaws.

As a friend of mine once said "Looking back after 10 years, I realize that I spent 3 miserable years of my life divorcing a perfectly nice person who simply couldn't put their clothes i a hamper".

So, the entire upcoming generation of young women is being labeled after a Spice Girls song pimping Pepsi.

I think that says more than anything else in the entire article.

How can you put "Spock" on your list of cool jews in history and leave off William Shatner, who is not only cooler, but enjoying a resurgence these days on Boston Legal?

It's because he's Canadian, isn't it.

p.s. Also, Spock is a character on the show "Star Trek". He was played by non-fictional Jewish actor Leonard Nimoy. Was Spock's human mother on the show Jewish, qualifying him for the list?

The idea that there could be any question about whether or not the party would back the candidate it's members voted for in the primary</> pretty much sums up everything that is wrong in our democracy, much less the spineless Democrats.

I remember being appalled about 13 years ago at a Digital World conference when Trip Hawkins, then the head of Electronic Arts said in a speech that they were looking to expand the market for their golf games by adding female player models, and providing a wide variety of outfits and accessories to dress themwith. "Women love to shop!" he said.

I remain appalled to this day.

So, I am assuming from your post that you admit there is nothing fishy about Bruce Wayne's relatioship with either of the post-Dick (ha!) robins?