Life Without a Net
birth control
Political Religious Insanity
I don’t often get into politics, but this is just too insane to leave unmentioned. The house has passed a measure eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood, but NASCAR still has their big vroom vroom, sponsored with your tax dollars, racing around a track in circles. It’s enough to make me lose hope. I really don’t … Continue reading
Antibiotics and Birth Control Pills
According to LiveScience, it’s a myth that antibiotics screw up birth control pills. In the unsourced blurb, someone named “Carroll” states: “Many physicians even believe this,” Carroll said. Alone, birth control pills fail about one percent of the time. And that failure rate is unchanged when taken with the vast majority of antibiotics, Carroll said. … Continue reading
France Speaks Out Against the Pope
While I’m on about birth control, a recent article on MSNBC reports that France, a traditionally Catholic country, is pissed at the pope. France “expresses its very strong concern about the consequences of the statements by Benedict XVI,” French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said. Furthermore, “While it is not up to us to … Continue reading
Successful Farming, or Why Birth Control is Awesome
Over the course of several blogs and several weeks, I’ve frequently referenced our human bias with regard to ourselves. It’s admittedly a very hard thing for us to remove ourselves from our own perspective, but I want to offer another exercise to do just that. I hope it will demonstrate just how strongly we hold … Continue reading
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