For those who do not have television, Internet, or for those that DO but have been in a coma, living under a rock, or holed up in a hotel on their honeymoon having the most intense, carefree and awesome sex they’ll ever have again in married life, I am going to fill you in on the news and controversy that has occurred this week surrounding Nadya Suleman.

Suleman is a 33-year-old, single, unemployed woman who has been on injury/disability payments since 1999, and just gave birth to octuplets in California. Before giving birth to an additional 8 children, she already had 6 kids ranging in age from 2-7 and all of them were born using in vitro fertilization (IVF) made possible by the same sperm donor and same fertility doctor. When undergoing IVF she and her doctor decided to implant all 6 embryos that were available, even though the recommended limit for her age is 2 embryos. All 6 of the embryos attached and then 2 of the embryos divided into twins and a total of 8 babies were born.

Let me give you a moment to process that information.

You still with me?  Good.

This situation appalls me.

And I do not appall easily.

(This is long, so click “Continue reading” to, ya know…continue reading. Hey, it’s a wide topic and I’m in a ranty-rant-rant mood.) Continue reading →

The people at PMS BUDDY are GENIUSES.

They created an iphone application for men to chart the menstrual cycle of their significant others to help them keep track and be more sensitive to the moods around “that time of the month”.

Most of the WOMEN I know start their cycles and have an moment of astonishment and think, ‘No WONDER I was such a behemoth wench-bag yesterday!” Duh.  I don’t know how we can expect the men in our lives to remember it if it slips OUR minds all the time.

“Saving relationships, one month at a time”, indeed!

“I’m sure there was a really good reason that I stopped smoking weed, but that reason is totally escaping me right now.”

It totally got me through the day.

For reals.