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Ah, Jon. Click “view clip” on the right hand side of the page.

Splices of George Bush clips slapped together to create a presidential rendition of “Imagine” and “A Walk on the Wild Side.” Amusing. (vis Simon)

“We were wondering if obesity would be more accepted today because of its increased prevalence and visibility,” said Janet Latner, an assistant professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Latner worked on a 2001 study of 415 New Jersey middle school students that indicates stigmatization of overweight children has grown 40 percent since

It took three clinicians and nearly an hour on the table to get me fitted with an IUD. The trouble was, I wasn’t menstrating (though I was supposed to be – last week’s breakthrough bleeding threw me off), and I’ve never had a child, so I’ve got a very small cervix, and you’ve gotta be

Had a whiskey and writing night last night. Very nice. Mostly productive. Felt good to be able to drink alcohol again, and better to be working on my book again. And for tonight: my favorite beer and some Giordano’s pizza. Yay. It’s been another long week.

The great thing about Friday morning commutes is that you can always find a seat on the train. It’s the little things.

Sorry. That’s just the way it is. The world in the palm of a 13-year-old girl. Yes. It’s her body. Her right. Too bad for you, Florida. Maybe you should have been educating girls and women like her, you know, protecting her life and making sure she lived well and had regular check-ups and knew

I’ve read this one before, but I want to bring it up again: So I’m going to tell you about it, Ms. Russ, because I think I’ve just discovered another strategy to suppress women’s writing. You wrote the book, How to Suppress Women’s Writing, describing in gory detail all the different ways that have been

It’s called reversal. Some people think that it’s just hysterically funny–the shit that men do to women. Problem is, it stops being funny when it happens to them. It’s not funny, dammit! When it happens to men, it’s a human rights violation. When it happens to women, it’s just….background. It’s normal. Sexism will always be

The problem with being somebody like me, who is very clear about what works regarding dealing with my “low” days or holiday freakouts, is that when I’m confronted with a serious depression that’s actually caused by my reaction to a new birth control pill, I try to “treat” the medicated depression the same way I