New York woman denied medication for cluster headaches, doctor cites risk to *purely hypothetical* fetus. Not that she plans or even wants to have children; just the chance that she might anyway is enough, so the doctor expects her to bite the bullet till she goes through menopause.

This is in New York. In the Bible Belt they'd cite Genesis 17:17, where Sara conceives Isaac at the age of 90, and never let her have those drugs at all.

#womensrights

https://jezebel.com/childbearing-age-medication-denied-lawsuit-1850899899

Come on, Joe, this isn't going to please anyone. I can already hear the right wing talking heads saying "too little too late."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/politics/biden-administration-border-wall/index.html

/nosanitize

My spouse is learning to play the ukulele. I'm learning to play the fiddle. We both need lots and lots of practice. For as little as $5 a month, we can practice somewhere else. Do we have a deal?

My phone got the signal but my zombification hasn't started yet as far as I can tell. Is there a number I should call?

Drumpf has dropped off the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans.

Or, as Mr. Drumpf put it, "Failing Forbes Magazine, which should be called Frauds Magazine for all the lies it prints, has very unfairly taken me off its obviously phony "list" of 400 richest Americans. The Truth is, I'm just not "Woke" enough for them. More Lies from the Radical Left!"

I swear I'm going to run out of popcorn this month.

https://www.alternet.org/newt-gingrich-oust-matt-gaetz

/nosanitizer

Finally realizing how bloody unnatural playing the fiddle is (goes for violin too). My hands aren't prone to cramping, but they're cramping now, and when I look at what they've been doing I'm not surprised. It reminds me of a poem one of my high school classmates wrote, "Sodomy with a Turtle Isn't Nice."

Slowly realizing how extraordinary Gavin Newsom's appointment of Laphonza Butler to the US Senate is. First black lesbian in Congress, first queer US Senator for California, a former union president -- he must have known heads would explode all over. If she runs for reelection it'll be a real Donnybrook.

True story: new director of nursing calls their subordinates together to get acquainted. Asks what they need. Nurse says, we need more people, as you will soon find out when you get called in 24/7 to work unfilled shifts. Director says, yes, staffing is tough everywhere. What else?

My favorite Republican politician today: Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who said "We’re tired of fucking around with these whack jobs."
If you're tired, Mr. Bacon, just imagine how the rest of us feel.

TIL that the dark-eyed junco, Oregon junco, slate-colored junco, and all the other juncos are all one species, different in coloration but interbreeding freely. So that funny-looking junco-like bird at the feeder was just another junco.
I may forget this and post it again (if I haven't already). One of the perks of age is you get to learn things for the first time over and over again.

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