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Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get me! Here we have a book review by PWPL’s own Rebecca Walberg in the National Post.

To this I would add that since going to the Spy Museum in Washington, DC I am also an expert. Funny, Rebecca did not interview me to write this piece.

LiveAction just released new pro-life posters. I especially like this one:

If there is something more annoying than a random bag of milk rupturing and slowly leaking inside your fridge, what is it?

Yikes:

Almost 6 percent of American women, that’s 7.5 million adult women, report using prescription medicines for a boost of energy, a dose of calm or other non-medical reasons, according to the latest numbers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

“Many may not consider what they’re doing abuse because they’re using a prescribed drug,” says Susan R.B. Weiss, chief of NIDA’s Science Policy Branch. “Many of these medications are being taken as performance-enhancers.”

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To blame may be what some are calling the superwoman syndrome. Overworked, overwhelmed and overscheduled women juggling families, friends and careers are turning to stimulants, painkillers and anti-anxiety meds to help launch them through endless to-do lists.

I have no idea whether that’s true or not – I’m sure there are all kinds of reasons people take drugs, and they probably don’t all have to do with trying to do too much. But hey. If you find yourself so overwhelmed that you need anti-anxiety meds, maybe what you need is a break instead. Take it from someone who’s gone through a few burn-outs and has learned this lesson the very (very) hard way: Less is almost always more.

Missed this Globe column on Ignatieff’s mistake in bringing up abortion as part of maternal care. Also missed this column on Valentine’s Day! This may be because I forgot to do a Happy Valentine’s Day post. Guess I was busy watching the Olympics, but since I quite enjoy the opportunity to bake heart shaped cookies with pink icing, I’ll wish our readers a Happy Valentine’s Day today!

At the risk of dating myself and alienating older (the 1970s, ew) and younger (techno 1990s? please) readers, I would like to say how pleased I am to hear news like this:

The 1980s are taking over the cinemas of North America and the UK. Upcoming remakes of ’80s franchises include The A-Team, The Karate Kid, Clash of the Titans, Nightmare on Elm Street and the ultimate Reagan/Thatcher-era movie, Red Dawn. It used to be that the ’80s was “the decade everyone was a bit ashamed of,” with its terrible hair and pop music dominated by synth and saxophone. But after the depressing experience of the ’00s and ’10s, people are starting to feel nostalgic for the greater certainty of the ’80s, not to mention songs like “Don’t Stop Believin’.” Besides, the executives who are running studios today grew up watching the “irony-free” movies of the ’80s, and now they’re trying to re-create their youth. Does this mean that there will be a remake of Mr. T’s Be Somebody Or Be Somebody’s Fool? One can only hope.

Though of course nobody can replace Patrick Swayze…

Cute. A list of life-changing products for the past decade. Only one food-related item on it. Clearly, girls have become gadget fiends. I would add to the list my personal kitchen-related favourite gadget: Martha Stewart’s recipe finder. How I managed to live before that, I will never know.

From time to time, someone writes in admonishing our team to “stick to abortion.” Indeed, this is a pro-life blog, but that wasn’t the point of this pro-life blog.

The point was to show that many women have many differing interests and can all be pro-life. So today I find Rebecca Walberg in the Financial Post in an article on leadership. Yesterday it was missile defence. Rebecca has the most varied expertise of anyone I know. Enjoy.

Fortunately for me, I am not single and I did not gain any weight during the holidays.

Put on a few extra pounds this holiday season? Don’t expect a welcome mat from BeautifulPeople.com, a dating site who recently made like a high school bully: belittling and booting members for weight gain.

According to the Guardian, the site has just expelled 5,000 members for packing on the pounds. To add insult to injury, the site’s founder, Robert Hintze, stated, “Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”

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Andrea adds: This sort of thing gives me cause to ponder why the divorce rate isn’t higher. Again.

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Brigitte puts on her cynical hat: Probably because the people who sign up on that site aren’t looking for marriage…

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Andrea again: Understood. But my point poorly made was that marriage doesn’t happen in a vaccuum and a culture that sells “beautiful” people for sex online, of their own free will, is missing the point entirely on what it means to be in meaningful relationship.