If she carries to term, she will have been pregnant with all the children combined a total of 15 years. I don't even know what to say to that.

The fact that she has not gone through menopause makes me deny the existence of a benevolent god.

Okay, I laughed hard enough that I hurt my portacath, so I hope you feel *really* bad. Because I read "licking random dicks and penises".

ita !, I didn’t mean to hurt you! But NO!! Was teacher. The good kind, not the creepy kind. EUCH!

But the immuno-suppressed kids GO to school anyway, so an immuno suppressed adult might not find it that bad.

That’s a good and valid point, Kat; I was anecdataing from my Year of Catching All The Ick.

It's cold and rainy here; I am so going to the store and making a pot o' spicy chili! YUM. Then working like a working thing.

I may even...attempt preemptive holiday house-cleaning. GASP.

The fact that she has not gone through menopause makes me deny the existence of a benevolent god.

When would she possibly have time?

The fact that she has not gone through menopause makes me deny the existence of a benevolent god.

She probably feels just the opposite.

The fact that she has not gone through menopause makes me deny the existence of a benevolent god.

If she's 45, she's edging up on perimenopause, but one can still be fertile at that time.

As for the Occupy folks, I do think that the message of OccupyOakland has gotten a bit muddled. It's about economic injustice, but it's also about public sector unions, and not cutting down trees, and police brutality, and racism (institutional and otherwise), and anti-capitalism, and general radical politics. While the police crackdown in Oakland helped get the movement broad national (and international) attention, Oakland isn't a particularly good exemplar, because the social & political context here is so fraught.

There are certainly people at OO who don't care much about middle-class homeowners getting foreclosed on--they think the entire capitalist system, and the idea of owning property and making money and having a retirement fund, is all bullshit. And there's more of them there than, I think, at the other Occupy protests, because of how the Oakland-Berkeley area is a center of gravity for radical politics. If Oakland leads the charge, the momomentum of the movement will get pissed away on sixty-three different agendas.

As it is, I still don't get why it was so important to shut down the Port of Oakland last week--a whole bunch of union members lost pay that day because they couldn't work.

Amy, you don't have to buy a ton of stuff there if you go when it's open to the public on a Saturday. It looks like dresses still only cost around $15, and that number drops the more you buy.

I wonder if the 15 years of pregnancy means that her ovaries are well-rested and have a remaining supply of fertile eggs.

BTW, the argument I avoided with the anti-vaxer was sparked off by the mutual friend talking about the appalling idea of Pox lollipops. Still making my head want to splodify.

As it is, I still don't get why it was so important to shut down the Port of Oakland last week--a whole bunch of union members lost pay that day because they couldn't work.

I can't remember the details, but my understanding it that it was in solidarity with another strike.

Pox lollipops

I don't think the virus would survive in the stomach. t /pedant

Would it survive in the mail? That's my question after not reading any of the articles...