"I ended up getting sliced open and gutted like the Christmas goose"

What a disgusting analogy. I think it would be hard to be more crass.

I didn't know you could just basically refuse a congressional subpoena like that. Maybe she'll be good enough to bring them along when she goes to class on wednesday.

After all, the world desperately needs MORE PEOPLE. As many as possible, as soon as possible, any way it's possible!

Little old ladies and little Lolitas should be popping 'em out like bunnies! The only consequences will be happy mommies, daddies and babies!

TEN BILLION or bust! Oh, the humanity!

Broccoli is said to contain as much calcium, gram for gram, as milk; it's more readily absorbed too.

Hemp and flax seed oils (esp. hemp) are loaded with all the Omega 6,3 & 9 you need. Corn fed beef and pellet fed salmon are surprisingly deficient in them because their unnatural diet is too.

Lots of veggies are rich enough in iron, and I prefer cast iron cookware myself.

It's true that one has to think more to eat an effective vegan diet, but that's because most of the basic truths you need to know to do so aren't common knowledge in our culture.

Doesn't everyone know how healthy it is to use hemp, flax, and olive oils on their salad? No, they use gelatinous glop 'Italian' dressing because they think non-fat is healthy.

Doesn't everyone know which combinations of foods (like rice & beans) provide the nine amino acids the body can't synthesize? Modern nutritionists are still busy debunking this idea, but people have been eating such combinations for millenia.

It really isn't that hard to obtain good nutrition from a vegan diet, IMHO.

Reproductive rights may be sacred and personal, but they are FAR from exclusively that. I was always taught that with Rights come Responsibilities. What about that? One can say that one's rights are inalienable, should the corresponding responsibilities not then be considered to be obligatory? Does not this new mother have existing responsibilities to her already living children, her community, etc. that should be heavily considered before bringing forth another child? The idea that adults must consider more that their own immediate gratification 'undermines' nothing.

It is Humanity's business how many of us there are (or should be). The next generation is implicitly everyone's business. If my neigbor beats or neglects their kids, you better believe I think it's my business. Same applies here. If someone is exercizing extremely bad judgement in a way that affects me, my community, THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE, I will definitely NOT 'mind my own business'!

How is it that anyone, anywhere, can have as many kids as they like and I am expected to utter not so much as a peep, even though this 'sacred' practice is clearly - CLEARLY - dangerously unsustainable and has arguably ALREADY sealed the fate of the human race?

"Restrictions, enforcements, and intrusions" indeed. How do you think Governments are going to deal with this crushing weight of humanity? Do you prefer the Chinese model: one child, abort the girls, or the Indian model - catch up with China and see what happens?

Th fact that we haven't stripped the entire North American landmass (yet, we'll get to that point soon enough) allows us to maintain a dangerous illusion of reproductive and other freedom. We're pretty much living on borrowed EVERYTHING at this point.

Anyway, I'd bet that those are going to be some MESSED UP teenagers. Enjoy your new neighbors!

Was that quote intentionally ironic? Or is Sandra Miller living living somewhere that little boys don't get circumcised?

I'm not too fond of Freud in a lot of ways, but I do wonder how it affects men to be mutilated like that (usu. without anesthesia) at such a young age.

If an Iranian missile goes astray, it lands in Europe.

If we shoot down an Iranian missile over Europe, it lands in Europe.

If we fail to shoot down an Iranian missile over Europe, our missile lands in Europe plus maybe the Iranian one too...

So then it's in the EU's best interests to make sure Iran's missiles work properly, is that right?

Oh, they'd LOVE that. They'd charge full price and then play paintball all day. They'd have to use real weapons to generate the appropriate number of civilian casualties, though.

Sorry, Andrew, there's still no hope. We're still doomed.

One might substitute 'corporate' for 'U.S.' -

All U.S. fast-food franchises operating here, not just Starbucks, make women stand in separate lines. U.S.-owned hotels don't let women check in without a letter from a company vouching for her ability to pay...

I don't know how much differently non-U.S. corporations might behave.

one should always pull their own head out of their own ass before advocating that others do the same.

When you've gotten your head unstuck, please explain rationally how you disagree with AKA Smith's opinion. I find Smith's opinion to be generally reasonable. On the other hand, your opinion about Ms. Lloyd's attitude of superiority and condescension is itself steeped in an attitude of superiority and condescension, and doesn't add much to the discussion.

A good book by someone who understands BPD would provide more insight into Diana's life than Tina Brown's book, it would seem. Some people call it a label, but I dated someone who that label described very, very well and I have no doubt that Princess Diana was also pretty much a textbook case - the drama, fear of abandonment, jealousy, lies, abandonment by mom, manipulation, risk taking, etc, etc, etc. It seems to run in families; in my crzyXgf's and in Diana's; and there seems to be both nature and nurture components.

I don't mean to be simplistic and just stick the label 'BPD' on the dead Princess, but it's like a Rosetta stone; understanding typical BPD behavior makes Diana's behavior comprehensible.

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