From Lee's link:

If my mother just sent me an email saying that she just found out that one of a work friend's two daughters has breast cancer and that she isn't sure which, but she guess it's the one "who, like you, does not have the protection offered by child bearing", am I allowed to tell her to STFU?

Oh, wow. Suddenly the Republicans' policies on health insurance and reproductive rights make sense!

Is that where they get their whole "abortion causes cancer" thing? Oy.

And my mother is a Democratic scientist.

Who totally fails at genetics, and most science.

My family experience says that childbearing isn't any kind of guarantee against breast cancer. My thoughts go to your friend meara, I hope she's caught it early and her recovery is good.

Novocaine wore off half way through dancing tonight. And now it is painfully obvious that my temporary crown fits like crap. I have already left a message at the dentist's that I need to get in there Friday either for the permanent crown or to fix the temp. I really don't care which.

Driving home from dancing, I had a great idea to solve a work problem posed to me by my new PM. I had told him it would take me a while to come up with a workable solution and once I came home tonight, it took me 30 minutes to try out my idea. And it works!!! Yes, I was working after midnight. Silly me. But that is a problem solved!!!

I should be tired and sleepy and not here babbling to myself. And yet I'm just not there yet. Sad.

It's hereditary

Can we tell your mother that? Because I could help...

Meara, I'm sorry about your friend. I hope they caught it early and that treatment goes well.

A friend of mine, vegan for the past 20 years and a competitive runner for her age group, was diagnosed with diabetes a while back. She comforts herself that not only does she have less trouble than many newly diagnosed with it about making changes to diet and "lifestyle" but that perhaps she'd have come down with it many years earlier if not for all the "correct things" she was already habitually doing.

When I start to reflexively "blame" the afflicted for bad choices I try to remember her.

Is that where they get their whole "abortion causes cancer" thing? Oy.

I'm pretty sure that one's just a lie. (IIRC, the myth predates the research.)

Fuck cancer.

I thought Obama's speech last night was fantastic. I'm always kind of cynical about his public speaking (it can't POSSIBLY be as good as they say it is!), and he almost always proves me wrong.

Owen was born in the perfect age of media technology. He is currently watching The Knockout (1914) with Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin.