So close but yet so far

I spent this weekend in my happy place–Yankee Stadium. Two days of beautiful weather, incredibly overpriced beer and baseball were good for my soul, but when I was coming back home I also came back into reality. I posted the following in my personal blog and am posting it here to raise awareness … and [...]

Being an old hand

By now most of us have heard of Angie Jackson, the young Floridian mother who is currently making news because she Twittered her medical abortion as it was happening. When people asked me my opinion, it was along the lines of “I appreciate what she’s doing, just not sure that Twitter’s the way to do [...]

Getting up to technological speed

A few months ago I managed to get the INS Facebook page up and running, but didn’t really pay too much attention to it until recently. It really is a very useful and more personal tool so I am definitely going to be more active on it. At one time I also had an INS [...]

Let it go for just one day, antis

Since my love of football is well known (and occasionally enough to bridge the yawning chasm between myself and antis) I’ve been getting semi-deluged with e-mails and stuff asking me my opinion on CBS’ decision to run a decidedly anti-leaning ad sponsored by our buddies at Focus On The Family during the Super Bowl. As [...]

Boogedy!

Back in the day an anti challenged me to go into a abortion prevention center crisis pregnancy center to listen to their message. I replied that I was not their audience, which is frightened and desperate young women. But in case you’re curious as to what said frightened desperate young women might hear from those [...]

New year, same old crap

In the past couple of months Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia has been sending out e-mails about a proposed pro-choice license plate to counteract the CHOOSE LIFE plates that came out last year. As I’ve stated previously Virginia may be the personalized license plate capital of the world. It’s fairly easy to get a new [...]

You’ll excuse me if I go WTF?!

In my experience with INS, I have learned never to trust an e-mail sent by someone using AOL. You may laugh, but invariably any time I open an email sent by somebody at aol.com it’s an anti. But still, much like the optimist searching for the pony in the pile of horseshit, I open them [...]

What “Knocked Up” should have been

I’ve had a couple of people e-mail me about Obvious Child, a short film directed by Gillian Robespierre about a young woman who gets pregnant after a post-breakup one-nighter. However, this is not Juno or Knocked Up or any other movie where suddenly two strangers fall in love with parenthood and each other and live [...]

Still here, still clear

September has been my down month for a while now. While everyone else is going back to school, I’m taking vacations and celebrating birthdays. Both my husband and I have September birthdays as well as one of his sisters so we do an en masse celebration, although I’m now at the age where birthdays are [...]

Blowing covers on the internet

It’s kind of ironic that someone e-mailed me about Virginia Montanez, the blogger formerly known as PittGirl, and asked me if what happened to her made me nervous.

For those who don’t feel like clicking on the link Montanez is the author of the hilarious Burgh Blog, and as PittGirl she had her legion of [...]