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Month: May 2012

Well played, JCPenney

May 31, 2012Russell Saunders 8 Comments

Gawker: In what appears to be a direct response to the failed boycott campaign of anti-gay group One Million Moms, JCPenney yesterday unveiled a new Father’s Day ad featuring a same-sex couple playing with their children. Well, I like that… Continue Reading →

gay rights, marriage equality gay dads, jcpenney

From the annals of lousy medical reporting

May 31, 2012Russell Saunders 35 Comments

I was otherwise occupied on May 25, so I missed this article in the New York Times about Miralax, a commonly-prescribed laxative.  (Hat tip: Edith Piaf.)  The piece is such a shambles, it beggars belief that it was published.  It… Continue Reading →

patient care miralax, New York Times

I feel pretty

May 30, 2012Rose Woodhouse 25 Comments

After writing a post on why some academic fields are still male-dominated, it occurs to me that there are a few other things I want to say about what it’s like to be a woman in a male-dominated field. So… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized beauty, dress for success, grooming, women in academia

140 characters of Russell

May 30, 2012Russell Saunders 13 Comments

For those of you just desperate to know what inane things I’m thinking, how far I’ve run on any given day, which things written by other people I’ve found amusing, and which randomly remembered songs I’ve found on Spotify, I’m… Continue Reading →

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No, I won’t drug test your unwilling kid

May 30, 2012Russell Saunders 29 Comments

One of the parenting truisms I have heard over the years is that there are two particularly challenging phases of childhood.  The first is toddlerhood, and the second is adolescence.  As the parent of a wonderful, charming, bright, inquisitive and… Continue Reading →

patient care adolescents, drug testing, mature minor doctrine, teenagers

Tuesday questions, Heigh Ho, the Holly edition

May 29, 2012Russell Saunders 106 Comments

This week’s question comes courtesy of NaPP‘s own Will Truman (who is taller than I had guessed): A few weeks ago, an old flame Friended me on Facebook. This was a surprise on a number of fronts, not the least… Continue Reading →

stupid tuesday questions Facebook

Leaving Las Vegas

May 27, 2012Russell Saunders 28 Comments

It probably says something strange about my psyche that, unable to sleep as late as I could before departing for home, I had to get out of bed and write down the post percolating in my head.  At least it… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Las Vegas, leaguefest 2012

Why are some academic fields still male-dominated?

May 25, 2012Rose Woodhouse 42 Comments

After graduating college, I worked for a bit, then went into grad school for an MA in a field in the humanities. About 60% of the grad students there were female. I have no stats on that field, but I… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized women in academia

This article made me want to scream

May 23, 2012Russell Saunders 331 Comments

I must be losing my mind, or strangely jealous of all the fun, fun comments Rose got in her circumcision post, because I’m going to opine about one of those fraught subjects that tends to be intensely emotional and controversial.… Continue Reading →

patient care home birth, ina may gaskin, midwifery

Thoughts about the Ravi sentence

May 22, 2012Russell Saunders 1 Comment

When the guilty verdict was handed down in the Dharun Ravi trial a couple of months ago, I expressed some concerns.  Like many people, including many gay rights activists and writers, I felt very uncomfortable with calling loutish behavior a… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Dharun Ravi, Tyler Clementi

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