“Late abortion is not a failure of contraception. It’s for medical reasons,” Eleanor Smeal, the president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, who has worked to defend abortion providers like Tiller against harassment and violence since the mid-1980s, told me this week. “We’ve made pregnancy a fairy tale where there are no fetal complications, there’s no […]
In 1994 my wife and I found out that she was pregnant. The pregnancy was difficult and unusually uncomfortable but her doctor repeatedly told her things were fine. Sometime early in the 8th month my wife, an RN who at the time was working in an infertility clinic asked the Dr. she was working for […]
The rest of the internet is busy writing deep and meaningful new year’s posts. I don’t think I could be bothered, but I’m stuck at uni waiting for the printer to ponder a very large file, and I’ve run out of stuff to do…
So, here’s what I’ve been thinking about 2009:
Honours. This is the big […]
There’s a story in The Australian today about a proposal to abolish the “leap seconds” that keep “official” time in line with the turning of the Earth around the sun. Instead, “official” time will be tied to the oscillations of Caesium atoms, and we’ll wait till there’s a whole hour’s difference before adding a “leap”.
The […]
I wanted to write something about California’s Proposition 8 and related referendums in other states. Luckily for you, I’ve found some people who say it so much better than I can, and with less disgusted ranting, and more compassion and hope than I could wrap words around. If you can’t be bothered reading it all, […]
I just got an Official Communication in Oasis saying “It looks like you might be ready to graduate this semester - here are the dates you need to hand in your Intention to Graduate form by”. It’s a good thing too, because even though I am quite aware that this is my last semester of […]
I’ve been sorta ‘collecting’ narratives of depression - whenever I see as book referred to, usually on the internet, I hunt it down. The first one was I had a Black Dog, by Matthew Johnstone, which had a series of clever pictures of how the black dog affected his life, with the dog following him […]
