The Inquisitive Skink

Hobby Lobby is a corporation not a citizen... How can Hobby Lobby say they don't want to make health care decisions for their employees when the whole reason they are in court is that they want to deny them insurance coverage for contraception to which it has “religious objections”?  Since when do corporations have religion? The ACA (Obamacare to some of you) does not require employers to provide insurance. Repeat....the ACA does not require employers to provide insurance. It has an individual mandate, not an employer mandate. So the ACA is not requiring Hobby Lobby to provide insurance, ergo they are not forcing them to provide birth control. The federal law does require virtually all group health-insurance plans to include coverage for various preventive services, including 18 forms of FDA-approved birth control. So if Hobby Lobby decides to provide health insurance coverage they are required to provide the same standard of coverage everyone else offers. If H...

Once again, Food Works is processing an order for our chocolate Vagina lollipops. Here in the kitchen I have heard a lot of comments and some questions as to why we do them. This is an attempt to explain why a domestic violence shelter program like Food Works is participating in the promotion of the sale of vagina suckers. Hopefully after reading this, you can address the same questions and comments when they come your way. Or not….as you have no obligation to agree with the points I make. There may be some valid criticisms to be made regarding the use of the vagina as a symbol for feminism, the women’s rights movement, and the effort to work against domestic violence.  I will leave it to you to imagine for yourselves what those criticisms are.  Some criticism is based, frankly, on the fact that some people are just uncomfortable with talking about anything that has to do with sex and the vagina definitely has a lot to do with sex. However, and this is a BIG however,...

 I believe Sophie's favorite season is whenever there is snow season.  She is well insulated and loves our long walks in the woods and the snow. © 2025 Donna Storm

I have arrived in Minneapolis to wait for my grandchild to be born. Can't wait for the birth to happen! Minneapolis seems to be a special place, and I loved watching this parade.

I have just arrived in Minneapolis in order to be with my daughter Jenna, for when she gives birth to my first grandchild. So lucky to take in the Gay Pride Parade! It was fabulous! ©2012 Donna Storm