Finally, finally, finally...someone admits it outright. Some speech really is INTENDED TO INCITE VIOLENCE. Someone who had to leave a movement, but it was finally said.
I've read many personal accounts of people who had to see Dr. Tiller, or refer someone to his services, or who had their breast cancer treated, or baby delivered by him. He terminated pregnancies of heartbroken women carrying babies who were so deformed they would die shortly after birth, women who wanted children, so they wouldn't have to carry a child to term and then deliver it just to die. He treated raped 11-year-olds who didn't even know they were pregnant. He did all this knowing full well he could die for it. And he did. On his way to Church. I think he was heroic.
01:40 am - Generic Wellbutrin, Episode 5: Attack of the FDA Ratings I do ok on Watson's Generic Wellbutrin (bupropion) so I went to their web site to see if there might be something there about what pharmacies carry it. (TEVA is right out. TEVA is teh evil.)
Have you ever heard of The Orange Book? Me, neither. Not til I was browsing Watson's web site and say a curious line on every entry, "Orange Book Rating: AB".
Google brought me to the FDA web site. After much tooling around the site, I failed to find "ratings" but I did find Therapeutic Equivalency Codes.
Drug products that FDA considers to be therapeutically equivalent to other pharmaceutically equivalent products, i.e., drug products for which:
(1) there are no known or suspected bioequivalence problems. These are designated AA, AN, AO, AP, or AT, depending on the dosage form; or
(2) actual or potential bioequivalence problems have been resolved with adequate in vivo and/or in vitro evidence supporting bioequivalence. These are designated AB.
::headthrob:: Yeah, well, we saw how well those resolutions worked for the hundreds of people who wrote to the FDA when they switched to Wellbutrin XL generics. (The bizarre response of the FDA here. It's succinct example of a political conclusion written despite their own data reported right in the same report.)
I'm not parsing the numbers after the AB, nor am I understanding how the brandname original manufacturer is getting AB codes, nor am I understanding what the heck the RLD code is, but hey, it's late and I'm off my meds. I'll try again tomorrow.
At any rate, anyone still playing "generics are identical, it's all in your head" can STFU now.
09:29 pm I'm watching The Goode Family. It's obviously done by Mike Judge, and it would be funny but it's way too painful. And creepy. And wrong. And funny. And wrong. And painful. Tonight's episode is about father-daughter balls vs taking your daughter to get birth control.
Also, today not only should be fired, but perhaps even ritually executed.
02:53 am I can't sleep and it's literally over American Idol.
I watched the last few weeks of the first season and never watched again, but my folks are hooked on it and have a huge HD screen TV, so I'm not gonna watch?
I called Adam Lambert the second coming of Freddie Mercury, and I wasn't fucking kidding.
As the show was going on, pairing up the top 12 with celebrities -- Allison with Cyndi Lauper, Gokey with Lionel Ritchie -- I wondered who they'd get to perform with Adam. We thought perhaps Aerosmith.
"It's not like they can resurrect Freddie Mercury," I said. And then when KISS showed up to sing with him, we were totally thrilled. We loved Adam's big shoes, and big ol' GrandDaddy Gene Simmons and his tongue.
I did NOT see it coming when Brian May from Queen showed up. And I started to cry.
You see, fuckers, if BRIAN MAY thinks he's good enough to stand next to him and sing like Freddie, I wasn't wrong.
Also, Queen makes me melancholy because there IS NO MORE FREDDIE! And I think of those videos during his last six months where he's getting sicker and sicker and not talking about it...like he faded into a ghost before he finally departed.
It was all around a fun show, and a nice cross section of American Pop Culture: Santana, Lionel Richie, Steve Martin, Rod Stewart, Queen Latifah...sure, a lot of them are has-beens at this point, but they are all pop icons.
When they announced the winner I was afraid for my mother's health (I had read the results on Twitter, so had already done my mourning): Her body went stiff and her face went blank, and then she finally muttered, "I think something just happened to my heart."
But we got over it. Besides, I explained, the winner had to sing that SHITTY ASS song Kara DiGarbage wrote, AND make it their first single, so fuck it. Maybe Adam asked that he not win just to avoid that humiliation. I also think singing that SHITTY ASS song is what cost him the show -- he just couldn't make that thing right. It fit Kris Allen much better.
Anyway, Allen's a great singer, and they'll both be great. Adam needs a new last name, and if he doesn't make it in a rock band, he'll keep doing musicals and glammy drag performances.
And one more thing, in memory of Freddie: FUCK AIDS.
09:01 pm I read Their Eyes Were Watching God as a teenager. One of the few novels I finished reading all the way through.
Just watched the Oprah-produced Lifetime movie starring Halle Berry.
What the hell is the point of this story? All men go crazy in the end? Only answer is to leave or wait for them to die or shoot them? And make sure you're inexplicably sterile?
12:43 pm - Dollar Bill Tips Looking for nail salons in SJ to take my mom for her birthday. Maybe not this one, but I'm totally gonna check it out. This review is pure gold:
This place is ghetto, but in a ghetto-fabulous kinda way My regular shop was closed for some ungodly reason, and the gel's were lookin' a bit hurt so my assistant suggested this salon, she's been going for years. Her nails are always looking good other than some questionable color choices now and again (think sparkly zebra) so I had her book me an appointment. She took me (cause I don't do east side without a bodyguard) and she told me Tammy was the only one for Gels and Anne was the go to girl for pedis. she was dead on, those girls worked my stuff out, my nails were flawless (I checked) and Ann hooked it up with a killer pedi and a great head an shoulder massage after.The shop is cute inside and from what I saw really clean, the staff talks all kinds of smack in whatever their native tongue is and the owner guy is up in every ones business but the prices can't be beat ($15 fills/$15 pedis including massage) so I can overlook the rough edges. If your able too get over your own snobbery (see other reviews) then this is a great little spot to get some nails and people watch, I saw a girl with the worst weave in history getting 3" long acrylics with dollar bill tips, GHETTOFAB! I'll definitely be back.
"I don't do east side without a bodyguard" is my favorite part...cuz this place is SO not in the thick of the east side.
Interview with Sarah Katherine Lewis on how "issues" with the sex industry are the usual working-class labor issues (with a splash of sexism, of course). YES YES YES. Just YES. And wow, the INTERVIEWER totally got it, too. Who is she, Sarah?
A great point: "And, yes, skill. But that’s true of nearly all “women’s work”—it’s all similarly devalued as being something we are, as opposed to something we consciously do, with skill. We’re just sluts."
Or we're just mommies. Mommies are naturally skilled in psychology, operant conditioning, nursing, first aid, cooking, nutrition, and housekeeping, right?
Or we're just teachers. Teaching kids is a woman's job, and it comes naturally, so we can pay them crap, too!
And nursing, well, nursing comes naturally to women, and paid crap for eons. And once they started getting paid well, gee, look at all the male nurses, now!
Etc. Women's work is instinctual! And she loves doing it! Right?
Hell, I know women's work takes mad skills. Which is why I never bothered to learn them. :p
Edit: I'm very glad I read the comment by "julia" in response to the article. Because if the first time I ever heard such an ignorant opinion was in person, I'd be in prison for my reaction. That is all.
And of course the argument is how behavioral deviance should be defined by a list of criteria listed in bullet point?
Rather than, you know, asking if behavioral deviance even belongs in the realm of psychiatry to begin with.
Or if psychiatry has overstayed it's welcome in a modern medical society and it should be shit-canned along with reading the bumps on someone's head and studying bird entrails to tell the future.
The entire sexual section of the DSM should just be erased, along with the gender identity bullshit. There's no such thing as a paraphilia, ok? You fuck consensually, or you don't. If you fuck nonconsensually, you have antisocial personality disorder. If you don't fuck at all, but you want to, you have social anxiety disorder. If you fuck all the time, and want to stop, you have a compulsive disorder. The end.
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