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• Quiz oTD

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-22 • ( 26 )

  Nestle are selling this product in Laos.

  What do you think it is?

  spoiler space

• “Go and get yourself fixed up, Sheila.” Flibanserin and Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-22 • ( 22 )

  Colbert’s “Cheating Death” segment usually contains some quality snark. This particular piece opens with a satire on hormones being pushed to women throughout the lifecycle.

  Then, starting at 2:10:

  Stephen Colbert: “Next up: Heart Health. Folks: Drugs called “statins” are effective in lowering cholesterol. That’s why I crush statins on my bacon chilli corndogs. But a study unveiled Sunday shows that when taken preventively, the statin drug Crestor dramatically reduces the risk of heart attack, even in people with normal cholesterol. This is a great breakthrough in the battle to find things to prescribe to people who don’t need them.

  But, of course, some Hippocratic oafs don’t wanna prescribe it.

• I’m having trouble making sense of this world

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-22 • ( 23 )

  So… the chap with material depicting cartoon genitalia was convicted on the grounds that the Simpsons are real people; but the Lord Mayor just unveiled a realistic sculpture of a naked nine-year-old girl in Perth – legs apart, labia depicted…. Read More ›

• Happy Solstice from the Flickr Folk

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-21 • ( 9 )

  From the sunrise at Norfolk Island, Australia’s Easternmost point:

• Otterday, and Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-20 • ( 20 )

  This handsome river otter hangs out on Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina. Via Blue Ridge Blog. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want… Read More ›

• The intense hatred of nurturing female bodies: Kelly Rutherford “still breastfeeding”

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-18 • ( 18 )

  The New York Post has headlined this “UDDERLY ICKY“. “GOSSIP Girl” star Kelly Rutherford might not be uncomfortable talking about breast-feeding, but the rest of us are uncomfortable hearing about it. The 40-year-old pregnant mother told Us Weekly she still… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-18 • ( 11 )

  With a holiday theme. Runnerup: “Damn security cameras.” Post your favourite cheez-o’-t’-week here. [Use a link to the full page or the embed code, not just the image, and wait for admin image magic.]

• A Dexter moment

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-17 • ( 4 )

  This, THIS is why I love Dexter. [Swearing, no violence, subplot spoiler for season 3, ep 12.]

• Internet or sex?

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-16 • ( 33 )

  This is all over the news. WA Today reports: “Woman [sic] choose web over sex”: Nearly one out of two women would rather give up sex for two weeks than go without the internet, according to a survey released today…. Read More ›

• Welcome, oldfeminist, to the bloggy world!

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-15 • ( 1 )

  I’d like to welcome oldfeminist’s new blog, and recommend it to you all. Oldfeminist is an old Hoydenizen with a new name. Tigtog and I are both personal friends with oldfeminist, originally meeting in another net-place far from here in… Read More ›