Listen up, Craic, and stop trying to teach your granny how to suck eggs. You’ve obviously never thrown a stiletto at anyone’s head, or you’d know they’re very erratic missiles. Take it from one who knows from experience (((nudge) (wink))). I’m sticking with the Doc Marten stuffed with rocks. Swing it by its laces, and you’re guaranteed a bull’s eye every time. Not that I have any experience of that, mind …

Has there ever been such a long time between presidents? I don’t see why they can’t chuck them out the day after the election. What’s the point of being ruled by a duck, and the lamest of lame ones at that?

Unfortunately, Laura, in the US access to primary healthcare for all is a pipe dream at this point. Only those who can afford insurance have any kind of reasonable access to healthcare, and even then it can be blocked by HMOs. So you could have a situation where a woman goes to her doctor, is given a prescription for contraceptives, for which she will pay, and yet a druggist whose religious beliefs equate contraception with abortion can refuse to fill it. She can always tell him/her to get stuffed and take her business elsewhere. The people most affected by this legislation will be the low-income and uninsured, who have no such freedom of choice and can be denied basic information that will affect their health.

May they pay for their sins.

It would be nice, Laura, to believe that what comes round, goes round. But I suspect this shower of miscreants will die comfortably in their beds, unlike the millions of people they have condemned to unspeakable horrors.

Me too. Do you think Shrub is punishing all women for his emasculating mother? You’d expect the father of daughters to be somewhat sensitive to the health needs of women, but somehow it escapes him – and presumably them, or they’d kick his ass.