My mom was 7 years older than my dad. They had 47 happy years together.

Oh, no doubt.

Walking into the room knowing you are likely the oldest woman there would still take some loin girding.

This:

I would guess that maybe he means that abortion providers dupe women into getting abortions when they aren't even pregnant so they can make money. That's about the best I can figure.

is indeed what he means. I steeled myself and read the article. He claims that the president of Planned Parenthood admitted to doing this back in 1978. (As I recall.) I think he really is trying to protect women (good, honest God-fearing women, anyway, like a upright God-fearing man should do), but he's terribly ill-informed and seems to be deeply invested in remaining so. There are a handful of women in his district who support him who also seem invested in remaining ignorant. I read an article a couple days ago about them. One woman declared that she "didn't buy into science" and she didn't think abortion should be allowed because she's always regretted the one she had.

I don't know how much is willful ignorance and how much is stupidity, or exactly where the line between them is.

Walking into the room knowing you are likely the oldest woman there would still take some loin girding.

Sunday night I was at a concert, and looking around from the balcony I realized I was the oldest person in the whole huge crowded room, with the possible exception of the silver-haired but spry guy down by the rail. He could have been a little older than me.

Let's hope McCaskill wins.

Sadly, McCaskill isn't exactly a great Democrat. But better her than Akin.

ION, I just had lunch at Le Cheval, which some of y'all might remember as the place we had dinner the night before the Zmayhem wedding. In the ensuing years, they lost their lease, downsized & moved into a much smaller space on the the corner of the same block, and then a few months ago sized back up and moved back into the original space. While keeping the small corner space as a noodle restaurant.

Wacky. But tasty!

It's like being in the crowd at that Warped Tour event with Billy Idol, with all the kids staring at me suspiciously. "Maybe she's somebody's mom." "Nah, she's here for Billy Idol." "Oh, yeah, right. You going to see him?" "Yeah, I ought to before he dies."

Pretty close to actual quotes.

Y'all should try being the black person at an Alice Cooper concert. Age don't matter.

I've been the only man in a lesbian bar a few times. But I was with a friend, and most lesbians in the bars assumed I was gay.

I've been the white person at a Brand Nubian concert.

I've been one of two white (big-haired deathrocker/metal) people at Public Enemy concert. That was an interesting date.

I've been the only human in a barn full of cows.

OK, that wasn't that exciting.