What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Exclusive: Five women suffered prolonged miscarriages, severe infections and emotional trauma at Mercy Health Partners when staff neglected patients’ health to uphold religious directives against inducing delivery, report reveals
Mmmmhmmm.
Motherfuckers.
Dating from 1100-800 BC, the wooden wheel is the latest find from a UK settlement described as Britain’s Pompeii.
Bronze-Age Wheel Sheds Light on Prehistoric Transport : Discovery News
Much, much better article on a very, very cool thing.
Archaeologists carefully excavating wheel made of oak planks almost 3,000 years ago at site being called a Fenland Pompeii
Perfectly preserved bronze age wheel unearthed in Cambridgeshire | Science | The Guardian
Apart from the random and half-baked speculation about a cooking fire, this is really cool.
Rick Allgeyer, director of research at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, had teamed up with researchers from the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center to look at what happened after Texas booted Planned Parenthood from its state-run Women’s Health Program in 2013.
Their study, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine early this month, found that the number of women obtaining long-acting birth control (such as intrauterine devices and contraceptive shots) through state-funded family planning services dropped by about a third after the change. Meanwhile, low-income women who had previously been receiving injectable contraceptives from Planned Parenthood before the change saw their birth rate shoot up 27 percent.
Those women lived in counties that lost a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Texas health official out of job over study favorable to Planned Parenthood – The Washington Post
Mmmhmmm
Apparently, studies that prove things with facts you disagree with are “biased” and heath officials should not be allowed to co-author studies about…women’s health…on taxpayer money. Because the absolute worst thing for a health official to do during work time is worry about healthcare for fifty percent of the state. At least, that seems to be the way they’re doing things in Texas.
Mmmhmmm
A judge has ordered Kesha must continue to work with her producer and alleged sexual abuser Dr. Luke.
#FreeKesha: Where Are All Of The “Feminist” Pop Stars Now? — Medium
No fucking shit.
After lengthy debate, Georgia’s state Senate passed an amended version of a “religious freedom” [doublespeak for religious-based persecution and discrimination] bill Friday, sending it back to the House and infuriating critics.
Georgia Senate passes religious freedom bill – CNNPolitics.com
Grrrrrrrrr
Cadbury is going upmarkets with its new chocolate bars. The chocolate-maker has added two new medley bars to its Dairy Milk range, with ingredients including dark chocolate, fudge pieces and berries. The Medley range comes comes in a different shape to normal Dairy Milk, divided into larger pieces, with the ingredients sprinkled on top of the bar.
Cadbury introduces two new Dairy Milk Medley chocolate bars | Business News | News | The Independent
Damn you, Hershey! Damn you and your inferior oily chocolate! Damn you and your ridiculous suit about packaging. Damn you, I say! (I really want to be able to buy an actual Irish Dairy Milk Medley bar without crossing the Atlantic.)
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at the age of 79 on Saturday. It was an apparently peaceful death, by all accounts, in his bedroom at a West Texas luxury resort after a weekend of quail hunting. He has children and grandchildren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to mourn him; let’s not do that here. Because Scalia, while brilliant, was also a titanic, sweeping, one-man disaster for LGBT rights, racial justice, abortion access and general human decency.
A Brief List of Some of the Many Terrible Things Antonin Scalia Said and Wrote
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As journalists, writers, truth seekers and truth tellers, our only job is to make it plain and get it right. That job is not always polite and it’s definitely not always welcomed.
Call a Thing a Thing: Scalia’s Judicial Terrorism Should Not Be Celebrated – The Root
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When Hunter S. Thompson came to New Hampshire’s largest city to cover the 1972 presidential campaign, he described it as “a broken down mill town with an aggressive Chamber of Commerce and America’s worst newspaper. There’s nothing much else to say for it.”
How a 19th-Century Town Became a New Millennium Marvel
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Most of what the politicians and the media are telling you isn’t true. Here’s why.
Five myths about the homeless problem in San Francisco | 48 hills
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Both prisons are operated by private companies, which are being as accept lower payments as an alternative.
Louisiana considering closing 2 prisons in budget cuts | NOLA.com
hmmmm
The Economist reports lesbian women tend to see a pay premium compared to straight women, while gay men suffer a penalty.
Why do lesbians earn more than straight women? The Economist explains | NOLA.com
hmmmm
Her viral video is rife with mythic images of the city, some nuanced, some merely cheap shots.
New Orleans is the prime ingredient in Beyoncé’s viral video ‘hot sauce’ | The Lens
hmmmm
Bizel questioned the charges. “Whenever anyone is seriously injured or killed by law enforcement, there is a tendency to look for ways to justify it and that involves overcharging of crimes or bogus charges,” he said.
FBI, Police Probe Deputy Shooting of Man in New Orleans – ABC News
Mmmmhmmm
“We know it is Black History Month when you hear somebody say, ‘Heyyy, Michelle! Girl, you look so good!’”
I crap on him a lot for his approach to his job but just speaking as people, they really are the cutest couple.
Move over Martin Shkreli. You now have competition for the title of America’s most reviled millennial.
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what a fucking tool.
There’s the great quote by Abraham Maslow that says “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” And unfortunately that’s often how it is with the American police. They are trained in ending crisis situations forcefully, but there isn’t enough training in how to deescalate them so that no one gets hurt or killed.
Yup
Sandra O’Connor, a Reagan appointee, effectively said the exact opposite of what Republican senators wanted to hear.
O’Connor undermines GOP talking points on Court vacancy
While she did lose my respect for retiring to take care of her ill husband (not OK! Never will be OK until it is the norm for men to do the same for their wives!!!) I have to give it to her on this one. You go, girl!
Did you know that liking or sharing content on Facebook can make unscrupulous and corrupt Internet scammers make lots of money? It’s called Like-Farming, Like-Whoring or Like-Baiting. But it’s all the same thing. Those posts on Facebook that have been put there to make someone else lots of money.
Facebook Like-Farming Scams – Don’t Make Scammers Rich – ThatsNonsense.com
Amen.
A transgender-politics maelstrom north of the border.
A Fight Over Trans Kids Got a Researcher Fired — Science of Us
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