New Product! (And Changes Coming)
Hey - AG here. Long time we’ve had no new content here, but we weren’t entirely static!
First, all kudos to Al Dente for setting up this Wordpress account to take over from the difficult-to-manage version of the page we had before. That was quite a bit of work for him to get everything transferred over and working. Thanks, Al!!
Second, we’ve got a new product to sell! Are you as tired as we are of the useless, suboptimal hacks the two wings of the national government political party (read: Ds & Rs) keep putting up there for us to choose from? Are you tired of having to always vote AGAINST, and never vote FOR? Are you tired of feeling like you’re choosing the lesser of two evils (which of course is still choosing evil)? Are you tired of the lengths to which the two wings of the government party have gone to virtually exclude any parties that may challenge them?
Then have we got a deal for you: Universal Campaign Signs: “Vote None of the Above: Always Your Best Choice!”
We’ve got yard signs, T-shirts, and more in our second store at: http://www.cafepress.com/gigb. Please come by and show your disgust with the status quo!! It’s also called “NOTA Gear”.
And third, we’re going to be making changes to our primary offering, the “Fart Offset”. Watch this space for a gala launch of the revamped product soon!
Thanks for stopping by. Please, go buy something and give us some of your money! (How forthright is that?)
–AG Pym
Reader Comments
Hi AG,
Forgive me for busting into your personal blog like this, but I wanted to respond to your question/comment on Radley’s Culture Wars thread and for some reason, I can’t do it there. It’s important to me, so I hope you’ll forgive the intrusion. What I tried to say was the following:
“At its highest point in years” comes nowhere close to “is once again a majority”, AGP. The numbers are still too low.
Here’s some data:
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In that second one, note that the “in hospital” numbers are nice and high, but drop substantially by 7 days and drop precipitously after that. This is because, in hospital, women who indicate a desire to nurse are offered guidance by on-site lactation consultants. Once those women get home and no longer have that support (and their moms are of little to no help as breastfeeding rates were WAY low a generation ago), they come face to face with the hard realities (if you’ll forgive the pun) of engorgement and simply unreasonable amounts of pain.
They also, if they’re having difficulty with nursing, are faced with pediatricians who declare that baby is losing weight (as all babies do at first) and insist that formula supplements are given. Now baby is getting a bottle and forgets how to use a real nipple, and mother’s supply never gets up to snuff because she’s not getting the necessary stimulation.
No wonder so many give up. Only the most dedicated woman can persevere through all that without help. Our bodies may have been built for nursing, but it’s still a learning experience for mother and baby and once again, pseudo-science and the medical authoritative voices get in the way, in spite of all the best intentions.