An abortion by mail

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A 20-year-old Oklahoma woman suffered a miscarriage, for which she’s been sentenced to four years in prison.

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That reminds me: You can get an abortion by mail.

The cost is $110-$150, depending on your location. If even that price is impossible, they're willing to charge less or nothing.

It's AidAccess, and I've added them to the sidebar, because abortion is increasingly dangerous and illegal in Republican America. That’s cruel, stupid, and un-American, like everything the right-wing says and does.

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I always thought Doan’s backache pills were a scam, because the only medicinal ingredient is a pain reliever. Might as well take two more aspirin, right?

A couple of years ago, though, in a what-the-hell moment when my back had been hurting all day, I bought a box of Doan’s. They’re cheap, so why not? And they do seem to help.

This is not a paid endorsement, unless someone at Doan’s wants to send me some pills: I'm a fat old fart, and my back goes outta whack if I bend over wrong. On Thursday I bent over wrong, and all day Thursday and Friday was a festival of ouch. Bought a box of Doan’s at 2:00 this morning, and by sunrise the pain was gone and forgotten.

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Also on the shelf in the same store — Dr Bronner’s, the world’s best bath soap in my humble opinion, now makes chocolate. You don’t bathe with it, you eat it. Not me, though. I don’t need more calories in my life.

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There was a Rolling Stones free concert that went better than Altamont.

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Stranger Things, we’re told, was somewhat inspired by spooky and secretive military experiments conducted at "Camp Hero" near Montauk Point, New York.

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A new James Bond movie is now playing, No Time to Die, and the consensus is that it’s pretty good. I haven’t seen it and won’t, because I know it’ll be overblown and BIG, with exaggerated spy antics, lookable locations, a few wisecracks, and some moments of tension, though of course there’s never any doubt that Bond will walk away AOK in the end.

This is the 27th Bond movie, and I’ve seen most of them, through the 2006 remake of Casino Royale. The word on that one was “outstanding,” but to me it was the same as almost every entry in the eternal series. It had a few less quips, as I recall, which made it less fun, but my review of that Bond flick, of every Bond flick, is: “Never quite boring, but not as good as I’d hoped.”

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Another movie I won’t be seeing is The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to The Sopranos. Has the world forgotten that The Sopranos kinda sucked by the end?

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More optimistically, Peter Jackson’s new Beatles documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, threatens to be worth six hours of my time. I’m looking forward to stealing it from Disney.

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In this fairly thorough stroll through the Hollywood age gap, Woody Allen's name keeps popping up.

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Simone wanted to be able to work on a jigsaw puzzle, without losing the use of a table for weeks, so she chose the most difficult solution. I love her dedication to doing it no matter what — stubborn people can change the world.

I would’ve cut a piece of cardboard to roughly the size of the tabletop, and laid it over the puzzle pieces, with nothing holding it in place except gravity. Then I would've relaxed in my recliner all afternoon, because that's more fun than jigsaw puzzles.

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Drugs you can’t legally buy, sell, or use — marijuana, amphetamines, and LSD — were given instead to spiders, just to see how it affected their webs.

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Does anyone sane think armed military robot dogs are a good idea?

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Mystery links — Like life itself, there’s no knowing where you’re going:

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Sincere tip 'o the hat to:

• Becky Jo