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...

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

Depending on how it was prepared/packaged, sure. That said, I'm not knowledgeable enough about virii to know what *specifically* it would take for that varicella virus to be sent through the mail and survive.

Here's my other question: How does my hairdresser make a living, working noon-6 and not on Saturdays?