that miraculous reception on a lovely fall day in Lincoln.

It was magical and I'll never forget it...or ever go back.

But then I guess, one can't ...innit?

Patient seduction (of the provider) and

Provider misbehavior (targeting the patient)

are both real (if relatively uncommon) phenomena.

A certain distance kept - in the physician-patient space is really a pretty good idea.

Been there.

3 packer...quit a hundred times (1000?) before I got it right for three years...

And Holy Apocalypse!...I caved...took me another 4 years to get it finally right.

That was in 1977. I am very grateful for having finally made it through [it took SEVEN year before I quit having nightmares about taking the first puff again] but to try and try and try again is the only way.

In the day...there were no quitting aids...patches, bupropion etc...but if I were trying today...I'd use 'em all. Every bloody one! and double up where I could.

That's a nice contrast with MREs

But has anyone connected that:

While Webb's kid in harm's way 'over there'...

Bush's kids are being brats in Buenos Aires.

Guys just can't (as we speak) get knocked up.

That girls just have tremendously more to lose in

Our sexual game?

Not having read (disclaimer) the quibbles;

but having read the original piece,

I would opine that while Wallace and his belief system

v.a v. his very good science base tends..

To metaphysical.

There's not squat wrong with that if honestly presented.

Buddhism seems a pretty good home for the scientist/believer.

[this is very poorly expressed...sorry about that,

but you get the drift]

..."American insularity, isolationism and good old-fashioned mulish ignorance."

And there's a subterranean mean streak operating too.

It's not big and we'd never admit it...but we got one.

For some reason...absolutely inapparent...the word association that came right up with the subjected title

was 'forced birth'.

And I like that phrase.

That was an excellent f*ckin' summary of the way it was.

Particularly liked the concept of the brazen broad

showin' it ALL off...'in yer face' nosey-bodies!

"murder" has SUCH a ring to it...

and "impeachment" is pretty darned tuney too

as Tracy Flick.

Very scary character and, oh so 'responsible'.

Learned yesterday Wal-Mart will soon discontinue the

automated check out counters.

Thought "Well all the better for (even more?) checkers."

But in discussion with the only checker in the automated checkout section...I went to her because all the machines were busy...

Learned that (in the Billings area, at least) Wal-Mart has a difficulty in finding for hire the kind of folks who make good checkers.

And thought, "Well, market forces win again and they'll have to pay their people better".

We'll see, huh?

Just a serendipity thing....NOT a connection thing.

Reading just last night an excerpt of "Origins of Totalitarianism" and learned that the Nazi propaganda machine was highly informed by, took a lot of its direction from the advertising machinations & ploys of American soap manufacture ...aimed (in the day) at women (by-the-bye).

So, in light of that, it was not surprising that P&G

is still at it..

"Nor is it surprising that P&G is trying to get its female consumers to tell it, by creating content.......

[T]he company..... has often been a pioneer in using new forms of media to connect with and mine information from consumers."

Huh!

IS a bit of a rocky run....

We can, can we not?, forgive both Hillary &

"Michelman....[who]

was recorded....as having said

'we think abortion is a bad thing,'"

Never a first choice obviously...anywhere for anyone.

First choice is being 'not-pregnant'...nicely

Or maybe not getting pregnant. You choose

Reminds me of..and the fact that we really could use

an artificial (or even cloned) womb.

For some of those pregnancies..however, interrupted.

And stuff.

*Frank Herbert as I recall.

Somebody in the circles in which I run has pointed out that:

There may result too, a 'surge' in homosexual connections.

Between that and probably increased numbers of girls doing high-end sex-work...it's all a 'market' thing.

-Be a great place for a regime change.

-Then we get a grip on AEI, AIPAC and WINEP and understand what they do.

-And Iran goes back to Mossadegh...that's 1954, butt-hook!

[Israel lost me...irretrievably..with that unconscionable

destruction in So. Lebanon [proxy for American air power]...and knocking out power stations/civilian infrastructure,for godssake! in Gaza.

So just who ARE the terrorists?]

-This character is just more of the same.

But nice job getting him on. I mean that. One has to let them vent.

A lot like a crooked cop?

Page..Nice piece, BUT [you know how this goes]

I am going to start demanding consistently that we be clear about what this creature really is.

Here's your (implied) apologia

"Because social conservatives continue to chip away at women's reproductive freedoms and social support for family planning, abortion and contraception still aren't equally accessible to all women in the U.S.,..."

The word 'conservative' for these folks is demeaning.

To the word.

These people -ALL- are truly 'reactionary'.

They are desperately afraid of change generally;

but in this case, of whole human rights for women.

They are terrified for their station, identity & privilege

essentially and always.

We provide them cover every time we fail to apply proper labels. So.

Stop.

I SWEAR I thought Andrew was going to prescribe it for the perpetrator of the SOTUS...

And then remembered that our immured President has never mustered enough stuff, ever..to find remorse appropriate to all the dastardlies both a-foot & tracked in the long trail behind him. So wouldn't medicate anyway.

But then I AM just a physician and can be forgiven for this

total missing-of-the-point.