I wouldn’t say that I’m necessarily giving up on the idea of posting longer pieces about specific, god-awful things that are happening in the news. Knowing myself, I think it’s likely that, in the very near future, something will happen that will cause me to go back to my old ways, and spend an entire […]
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Mark’s Covid Diary… May 19, 2020
Posted in Health, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1918, 1918 flu, 1924, 209 Pearl Street, Arlo, Buster Keaton, chin curtain, Cleve Wise, COVID-19, Curtis Florian, dragonflies, flu, Franklin County, Grover Cleveland Wise, Kentucky, masks, Mattie Belle Wise, Minnie Wise Florian, Minor Branch, pandemic, pneumonia, public health, sex, Sherlock Jr., Totally Quotable Arlo, WHO, Woodlake, World Health Organization 14 Comments
The War on Women makes its way to Michigan
I had the opportunity to hear Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, speak earlier this evening. She ended her speech by reminding people that, 96 years ago, Margaret Sanger was arrested for handing out information on birth control to poor, immigrant women in Brooklyn. Richards then mentioned that, last month alone, some 4.4 million […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 5711, 5712, 5713, abortion, birth control, Cecile Richards, Komen, Margaret Sanger, Meghan Groen, men making health decisions for women, Mike Shirkey, Netroots Nation, Planned Parenthood, reproductive justice, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, war on women, women's health 52 Comments
The Pill
I was going to let the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill go by without comment, but then it dawned on me how ironic it was that it fell on Mother’s Day. I’d have to dig into the old history books to confirm it, but I’m thinking that maybe it wasn’t a coincidence. Maybe, […]
Posted in Health, Politics, sex Also tagged 50th anniversary, Anthony Comstoc, birth control, Elena Kagan, family values, Greenwich Village, Helen Gurley Brown, Holly Golightly, John Paul Stevens, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Loretta Lynn, marriage, Mothers' Day, Ms. Magazine, National Organization for Women, New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, pregnancy, RIck Santorum, Sex and the Single Girl, sex for recreation, Shepard Aronson, songs about birth control, Supreme Court, The Pill, women's health, women's liberation, women's rights 10 Comments