Nice line!

Enough Garlic Mustard leaves to choke a horse (or to clear a forest floor)

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To see Obama or not to see Obama?

The lines! The lines! The passports! (It's in St. Paul.) Whether tis better to see from a great distance or read summary reports on the web, that is the question.

IKEA Crazed

Ok, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Repairing the Damage, Before Roe

Repairing the Damage, Before Roe
By WALDO L. FIELDING, M.D.

With the Supreme Court becoming more conservative, many people who support women’s right to choose an abortion fear that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that gave them that right, is in danger of being swept aside.

When such fears arise, we often hear about the pre-Roe “bad old days.” Yet there are few physicians today who can relate to them from personal experience. I can.

I am a retired gynecologist, in my mid-80s. My early formal training in my specialty was spent in New York City, from 1948 to 1953, in two of the city’s large municipal hospitals.

There I saw and treated almost every complication of illegal abortion that one could conjure, done either by the patient herself or by an abortionist — often unknowing, unskilled and probably uncaring. Yet the patient never told us who did the work, or where and under what conditions it was performed. She was in dire need of our help to complete the process or, as frequently was the case, to correct what damage might have been done.

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Today

I can haz color -- duplex color. If the FedEx delivery person makes it past someone. It's sitting in a warehouse in the wilds o' that other country, St. Paul. Say, isn't there some kinda speech thing going on over there later tonight? Now where did I put my passport...

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McCain: peace in Iraq could end up in a wider war if that evil black guy's in charge, more dead amerikans... shocking.