AKA head of bone, heart of stone. Continue to fairy tell yourself so that you can sleep at night. I asked you why you weren't preventing child murder everywhere because you are the one who insisted you COULD NOT LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE WHILE THEY MURDER THEIR CHILDREN. Actually the opposite turns out to be true. Do admit you are a ridiculous individual of weak character with virtually no insight and no right to judge other's life-impacting decisions and that said decisions do not involve you in the least. And no, we are not discussing elder abuse or kidney transplants and most on this thread are aware of that. You would be a poor protector of children as your husband had to instruct you: "Please do not take our children to Planned Parenthood to protest abortion." Do I understand that correctly? If true, you are utterly hopeless.

It's tragic, and that's it. It may have been an accidental overdose or any number of things that can cause sudden death in seemingly healthy young people. The only thing that I would like to add about Heath Ledger is that the reason he was so special is that it was hard to say why he was just so different, what was it that made him stand out, because he really did. There was just something about him. After seeing Brokeback Mountain, it was difficult to believe he was only 26 in that movie. There was just so much to that performance, such joy, such loneliness, such withholding, such weariness.

About the drugs, yes, we do need a new FDA. We need some kind of oversight into these substances. I don't smoke marijuana, but lately it seems that you're taking as big a risk using prescription medications as you would taking street drugs. No one is minding the store. There was a study just out about antidepressants saying that the drug companies simply decided not to publish the negative studies about them. This means that doctors are also in the dark about side effects or ineffectiveness of certain medications. Poor Heath, poor family.

now we know what makes money in this country, it's certainly not working at a regular job, know what I mean?

What an original turn of phrase "leave you alone while you kill your children." So I assume that in superhero fashion you are all over the country protecting children, saving their lives. Where were you when that woman killed her four children in DC? Why didn't you save those children whose father threw them off of a bridge? Where are you superhero, when children die in this country of neglect, poor medical care, and abuse? So determined are you to save the nation's children it's a wonder any child in the US comes to harm at all. But the fact is that you're not saving children at all are you? You are in the parking lot of Planned Parenthood intimidating people you don't know and who would prefer not to know you, taking down license plate numbers, making intrusive phone calls. Your parents and your nutty fundamentalist pals must be so proud. I find you to be a loathesome creature, in your writings, at least.

about Catholic High School, guess I never addressed that. In the '70s the nuns and priests (screwed up people if ever there were any) would go on ad nauseum about how abortion (now that it was becoming legal) was still off limits to us Catholic girls. Needless to say I did get pregnant at 17, didn't have an abortion. Things turned out okay, not great for both of us. I kept her, raised her, and we love each other but still have issues. The point is, the Catholic Church is some kind of moral authority on having children? I think not.

I really think that the people who have the strongest opinions against abortion and birth control are paternalistic abusers who don't really care who does what, but just can't fathom living in a tolerant society where you can make a mistake in your life and pick yourself up and keep on going. They want people to pay and pay and pay with their lives and they don't care who they hurt. They are not pro-life, they are pro-control of everyone else's life.

I am reading the letters of Jessica Mitford who wrote The American Way of Death, (progressive liberal activist throughout her life from 1918 to 1996). What really struck me about her life was how when she wrote about injustices either in the funeral industry or in the prison system, it seemed that a lot of government agencies, once they found out about people being treated unjustly, actually wanted to help these INDIVIDUALS. It's amazing to me. Now it's the government agencies perpetrating injustices against individuals. And now that medicine is all for profit, you can forget any kind of bravery on the part of the health care industry. I'm very grateful to Dr. Wicklund for writing this book. We need more people like her. She's very brave.

Fundamentalist religious people need to mind their own business. You don't want what's right, you want control over stranger's lives because you've made messes of your own. There are lots of religions whose policy regarding birth control and abortion is that it's between the individual and god and their doctor, and that's how it should be.

but christ how long do we have to look at this godawful photo