Other Medical Reasons for Taking Birth Control Pills
Of course there is the obvious reason for taking birth control pills and that is birth control. However, that’s only small potatoes for some women. I’ve been on said pills since I was eighteen. I began taking them due to very bad periods and a severe lack of regulation. I have tried almost every type on the market but have never had a lapse in taking something. I’m a big fan of the four periods every year, personally. Mainly because they can be that bad. (And bad just...
Read MoreVision From Feeling Video Part II from TAM8. Starring Me!
Anita Ikonen from Vision From Feeling did short spontaneous interviews with those who were willing to participate at TAM8. She may be a woo, but I happen to like her; she’s really sweet. I do find it strange that Anita asserts she is a skeptic about everything except her claim to be able to attain a “feeling” regarding the health information of any given person. Unfortunately, I missed the demonstration but heard that it did not make her claim appear substantial. In any...
Read MoreMusic is not Compatible with Islam
And Islam gets even nuttier. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today that music is “not compatible” with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practised or taught in the country. In some of the most extreme comments by a senior regime figure since the 1979 revolution, Khamenei said: “Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic...
Read MoreA few notes on Israel and the Middle East
I know I criticize Israel from time to time. To be clear, I do not consider myself anti-Israel necessarily; I just do not believe any nation or ideal is above criticism. They are not perfect, just as any nation is not perfect. Yet, I can’t help but wonder what exactly anti-Israel is. Do I believe they should be entitled to a Jewish land? No. I honestly don’t believe any country should be ruled by religious law. I also don’t think there should be a Muslim or Christian country...
Read MoreProposition 8 has been declared unconstitutional. Finally.
Prop 8 is overturned. Activists and progressives who are concerned with equality and justice just exhaled the biggest rainbow-colored breath. I have written about this divisive and ugly proposition and the following protest (one of the many). So how cool is this news on this blogger’s 48th birthday: Proposition 8, the horrible and neurotic (Who cares who marries whom?) law prohibiting Gay marriage was overturned today, Wednesday, August 4th, 2010. In other words, by “Memorandum...
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