Friday, August 25, 2006

Massive pill price hike in the usa

from 1 doller to 18 dollers. thats steep.
souless. And when your on a low wage the pill is hard to afford.

No one much noticed, but thousands of family-planning clinics across the country went into a tailspin last month. They were reacting to a drastic price increase by Ortho-McNeil, a major supplier of birth-control pills and maker of the popular contraceptive patch. The company used to charge publicly funded clinics as little as a penny a pack for the pills. Then, as of July 1, the price of some pills jumped to more than $18 a pack. Ortho’s move was apparently legal under federal pricing rules. But it’s anybody’s guess as to why the company chose to do this now, without giving the clinics any real notice.


http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/23/the-pill-price-hike/

Names

Titular mess
I was annoyed now im pissed

Thursday, August 03, 2006

pastel - something to read.

Basic plot from Anime news network:

Tadano Mugi, a high-school student, falls in love with a girl, Tsukiyaki Yuu. When Yuu's father passes away, she and her sister are invited to move into Mugi's house by Mugi's father. Mugi and Yuu must then cope with the new challenges caused by living together and the growing relationship between them, as Yuu adapts to a new environment and Mugi struggles not to confess his feelings out of consideration for her situation.

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/aFFi/pastel.html

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

leda and the swan

Leda and the swan
(writen by William Butler Yeats)
A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Thread/454823
http://www.walnet.org/stanley_woods/muteswanz/leda.html