ahhhh ha ha! Funny brain fart!

No, but seriously, her tubes were suing her ovaries. It was a lengthy court battle and I can't believe no one told me about that.

You all would let me walk around with toilet paper on my shoe, wouldn't you?

Oddly, I don't have that much of an issue with the doctor. I would rather a doctor really lay it on the line what I could be facing, the consequences of what it is I want done, and bring up possible changes in my life. Now, I'd be pissed if, after I was informed of all of that and still wanted it done, he refused, but I can't fault a doctor for A) giving me all the information I need, even if I don't want it or B) having an internal struggle with it. I would far rather have a doctor that sometimes struggles with what the patient wants vs what might be a "better" decision, than one that just say, "You want it, fine - I'll do it."

I would imagine that doctors go through many internal struggles with their patients. Oncologists, for example who have patients that just don't want to fight their illness anymore.

Ah! That is pretty funny.

I clicked on one of the ads on my Gmail page, for unusual gift ideas. Not that I'm really buying this year, but I'm always curious...

What a crock! It took me to a directory page (that looks like the one you get when you mis-type an URL and they're reselling ad space. Outback Steakhouse is an unusual gift idea? Not in the good way. Weirdos. I guess they make enough money reselling that space to pay Google to advertise them. Soon, we will run out of product and just have ads.

Hulk Smash

OMG, my therapist JUST brought that article up not even an hour ago!

I really can't get over the patronizing tone. Really.

Paul said of Peter, ‘I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong (Gal. 2:11).’

I've got the Frontline doc on early Christianity on tape, and one of the Biblical scholars that they have as talking heads in it (who happens to be the hottest guy in the show--a very good looking African American divinity school professor with a yummy voice) mentions this passage, and says how Paul is saying how "'I went to Jerusalem, confronted Peter, I got into his face and told him what was what!' Thing is, he doesn't say that he got Peter to change his opinion, so what's left unsaid is that he most likely did go to Jerusalem and have words with Peter, but didn't win the battle."

If you get a chance to see this doc ("From Jesus to Christ"), I highly recommend it--the four hours cover the historical Jesus, Paul and the pre-Gospel "Jesus movement," the writing of the Gospels and the Jewish revolts happening at about the same time, and then the next 200 years up to Constantine's conversion.

patronizing tone.

I, personally, didn't hear that tone, but I can see how it would read like that.

I hated the "What if your children died in a fire" question, it makes children sound so...replacable and unimportant as individuals.

Plus, if the woman's husband had come asking for a vascetomy would he have acted the same way and asked the same questions?

Is it as hard for men to get vascetomies as it is for women to get a tubal ligation?