The cynical part of me says "They aren't getting past their prejudices because they've gotten to know Obama. They're getting past their prejudices because when somebody knows if it's the blue wire or the red wire to cut when disarming the bomb in the room, you don't give a rat's fuckhole what color they are."

And the cynical part of you is right a good percentage of the time -- but its going to be that much less likely for their kids to be absoluteists about race.

And its also interesting that their bone-deep racism is so easily shaken. The very fact that they think a black man can be the solution makes me doubt the sincerity of their bigotry.

Glowing jellyfish earns Nobel Prize

Shoot it turns out that the Nobel Prize was for the chemists how studied the glowing protein in the jellyfish instead of the jellyfish itself. Ok, still a cool discovery, but the article isn't as cool as the title implies.

Yeah, the Nobel Prize committee still has a bias against spineless organisms....

Yeah, the Nobel Prize committee still has a bias against spineless organisms....

And American authors.

In some cases, similar beings.

The glowing jellyfish need more funding to get their chemistry program recognized.

It's still reasonably effective, if you're exclusively BF and the kid's not on solids yet. I mean, it seriously lowers the chances of a knock up.

Right. It's an evolutionary adaptation -- not perfect, but not mythical.

One of the things I heard most often after giving birth, while still in the hospital, was "what are you going to do for birth control"? My midwife even said, "I have people turn up pregnant at their 6-week postpartum checkup all the time. Don't let it be you." Needless to say I didn't have sex until my first was, like 6 months old, for one reason and another (like, 'ow,' and 'I am so fucking tired.')

I do know a woman who got pregnant right away, while breastfeeding, and it was TWINS. She had a 10 month old and newborn twins. And a live-in mother-in-law, thank god.

The cynical part of me says "They aren't getting past their prejudices because they've gotten to know Obama. They're getting past their prejudices because when somebody knows if it's the blue wire or the red wire to cut when disarming the bomb in the room, you don't give a rat's fuckhole what color they are."

ITA, but I also think the effect Trudy describes has a decent chance of happening if he's elected--some racists may pull the lever/punch the chad/fill in the bubble/touch the That One box on the shiny screen/what have you just to disarm the bomb, but in the coming months and years, for at least some of them, seeing Obama calm and mature and competent on their TV screens over and over, un-fussily disarming one bomb after another, may make a palpable difference.

I am possibly suffering a catastrophic cynicism deficit. I'm sure my levels will be corrected by mid-afternoon.

Re Jamie-Lynn, I'm just in awe that anyone in the middle of breastfeeding, usually entailing every 3 hours round-the-clock feeds at this age, would have the mental or physical energy to even think about sex.

Is there any proof she is dealing with the round the clock feeds, or that the baby is only on breast milk? I would seriously doubt both of those.

Not to mention that if she's two months gone like the article alleges, and the newborn is 3 months old, she was doing it before her 6 week checkup. Which, like JZ, and several other moms here, sex was the absolute last thing on my mind when Em was 4 weeks old.

(Still really sorry, honey.)