The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Turtle:

Hello from Minneapolis! Just about everyone I know is avoiding our twin this week, unless they're lucky enough to be able to take time off to protest -- if you're going to be harassed anyway, you might as well be doing something to earn it! Why the GOP holds their convention in historically Blue states if they don't want protest is a bit beyond me. This is really not the kind of publicity that helps them win "battleground" states.

And JimR @ 13 -- we're not all that nice here, especially our cops. I could tell you some stories from my own family that would make your blood boil.

I usually make a policy of lurking heavily, but wanted to say thanks for the post. I work at the U of M, drive over the 10th ave bridge every day and saw that bridge chock full about an hour before it collapsed. I'm trying to account for everyone without being able to use a cell phone, and while I don't think anyone from my Real Life posts here it really helps to know that I'm not actually isolated, even though I feel it.

Sorry for babbling. And thanks.

Xopher at 8, The Lavender Scare presents a fairly compelling argument that gay was the OLD communism as well.

That was way too much thought for a bad joke. I'll go back to Lurkville now.

Thanks for directing me here, Teresa. As a lead-up to a sequal political career, the tag-line is kind of scarily effective:

Newt 2: A Different Set of Rules.

(When I start seeing this on bumper stickers, I'm going to regret making the joke.)

I've never commented before, but have read for a couple of years now. My condolences to you all.

I have just about had it with the FDA, "consumer safety" crusaders, and the way that fear of litigation has come to override common sense in the US. Bipolar disorder has been being treated with lithium since someone first sorted out that you could effectively treat it with lithium. Sure, other drugs have come about that don't require toxicity monitoring, but for some folks, lithium is all that works. I can't imagine the FDA one day deciding it's become "outmoded" because other BPD drugs don't present a risk of liver problems.

My sympathies, Teresa. I have nothing useful to offer, except to suggest you talk to your doctor and see if s/he can finagle a prescription directly to an internet source like drugstore.com that might be liquidating what they have left of the drug. Maybe you could get a scrip for a few months to fall back on while trying to sort out a more permanent solution and/or storm the FDA and demand justice.

I had something similar but comparatively inconsequential happen when Seldane was taken off the marked and "replaced" by another allergy drug. I've been resigned to sniffling or sleeping (mmmm, benadryl) ever since.

Best wishes.

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