Pain question: Will a Tylenol with codeine do anything for a serious knotted muscle in my lower back? It's all I have aside from ibuprofen, which has done nothing.

What do you want it to do, Amy? Loosen the knot? No. Stop the pain by shutting down pain receptors in your CNS? Yes! So some relief, but it will be painful tomorrow.

Stop the pain so I can sleep, for now. And, uh, that's good, because I took it already.

It should make a dent, Amy. I took one earlier for my back and it at least distracted me enough so I could relax.

Chocolate

Hubby is annoying me for his lack of interest in politics. He has to keep asking me if Obama is a Democrat or a Republican, and which one is which anyway. "They're all the same, anyway," he says, "and it's not like voting really matters." I try to explain how the nuances play into other things, and he just goes "Eh." It's very frustrating coming from an intelligent man.

Heat, Amy! Choose heat!

Santorum freaks me out...but at this point I can't really see how any of the three left Would be electable, since Romney seems to very much bore people.

Santorum isn't just against abortions (he recently said he wishes we could go back to when abortions were "in the shadows) he's against birth control.

He's opposed to Griswold vs Connecticut which legalized birth control for married couples. Although I think he tried to backtrack a little and said his opposition was about the case in terms of states rights not birth control.

However, I'm pretty sure it is about birth control and his supporters would agree birth control should be illegal, he just tried to back off a little to make himself look less extreme.

askye, you're right, he's also against birth control. He thinks marriage is only about procreation.

It's weird--it's the official position of the Catholic church, but again, I don't know ANY Catholics who actually think that way. At least not in America. And to be fair, most of the Catholics I know are effete elitist urban-dwellers like myself.

Speaking of the Catholic Church, the Vermont diocese is trying to claim that monetary settlements for abuse victims is actually a violation of First Amendment rights of Catholics, because the loss of money and property would impede Catholics from worshiping.

The Catholic Church had to sell some Vermont property, including one where summer camps and a cancer camp were held in order to pay the settlements.

The paper reported it and in the comments (which are Facebook linked) a woman started lashing out at everyone and finally spewing some anti Semitic remarks, while at the same time calling other people anti Semitic. The paper deleted all the comments plus any of those directly replying to her, so my comments got deleted as well.

But it makes reading the comments kinda odd because there are all these references to someone who isn't there any more.

But it makes reading the comments kinda odd because there are all these references to someone who isn't there any more.

It's the most faithful rendition of Catholic doctrine ever!