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FEBRUARY 16, 2012 5:23PM

The House's All-Purpose, All-Male Panel on Contraception

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 The all- purpose, all-male panel that was called by Representative Darrell Issa to speak about contraception issues to the House of Representatives has been deemed to have similar credentials to speak about:

 

Slavery

 

How to Fix Menstrual Cramps

 

Lesbianism

 

How to Make a Pot Roast 

 

The Development of Dixieland Jazz in New Orleans

 

Childhood Bedwetting

 

Dog Whistles

 

How to Heal a Stye in Your Eye

 

The Sexual Positions of the Kama Sutra

 

The Benefits of Caffeine

 

Flats vs. Pumps

 

 

 

Expect to see Representative Issa call on this all-knowing, all-purpose, all-male panel again in the next weeks.

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And, no doubt, gonorrhea...
This is great, Lea!
Those guys look like the Smith Bros. cough drop box! Geeze.
I'm sure it's just Issa being colour blind; gender blind too.
Ha! You've cut to the heart of it.
Heehee. This "committee meeting" along with the aspirin comment by Santorum"s bag man had me laughing this afternoon. Couldn't help it.

Every woman should close her legs until her man agrees to support women's issues.

Wait. Didn't someone do that in ancient Greece?

:-) / r
I guess they're into dog whistles cuz they're wearing dog collars...
I'm no Righty but I find it offensive that the Left claims to have a problem with the racial makeup of this group. Have you looked at the front page of this site? Let's get real if they had a single white woman you would not have a problem with that panel. Stop acting offended about something that doesn't bother you in the least when it is being done here. The piece was funny really funny, honest not so much.
Are they posing for a remake of Mt. Rushmore?
Yeah, Lea, how dare you make the front page of this site be the way it is!
Not too smart politically to get women mad, Drew. Not smart at all.
Heavens to Lilith, you forgot to include their expertise on the Divinely ordained order of gender supremacy.
Old Man on the Mountain
Are you sure that isn't an old lithograph of the Salem Witch Trials? Scary looking group.
to a guy, these bozos look harmless enough.
i may be wrong, i often am.
the problem with women, they often conclude,
is that they cannot be trusted to
look after their own
best interests...
this is a vile infamy on 3 billion human beings,
especially considering History..
how women probably began civilization long ago..
their gathering of seeds to
plant in a garden
outside the cave..
to grow fruits, wheats, and vegetables..

these dumb boy s are not at all recognized
by the Boyz Club.

just sayin............ : )
Serenity Now! Help us all...
Poetry about these guys, James. More than they deserve. They and Issa deserve a whuppin'.
Funny and rated. Sometimes its embarrassing to be a male. Seriously.
Have to agree on that one, Gerald. But not all of you.
Kick a rock lately and there's always a nest of vipers underneath. Male vipers.
Ugh. If this were not the truth, we would all be laughing at the damn absurdity of it all. This is a country at war, not just a class war as they claim, but a war on women. An all out total WAR on women.
those guys wouldn't know there *is* more than one sexual position, would they? i can hear it now, "the kama whaaaa ...?"

fools. utter fools.
You are clever to find the funny here. I needed a giggle just now too. When I first heard of this driving home today, it was a jaw-dropping moment. You'd think some public relations somebody would have clued them in on how friggin' ridiculous they would look.
I would like to hear this group of experts weigh in on the white shoes after Labor Day dilemma.
Or lactating ...

Unfreakingbelievable ... things really are regressing
When we unite and cross our legs do you think they'll hear that? One..two...
As if they could come up with something as useful as a pot roast recipe.

BTW, if you're saying a guy can't have the best pot roast recipe, you've never had mine.
I am laughing at the absurdity, but I have laryngitis. :o(
[r] I periodically blog encouraging that the Afghan women significantly come to the peace table to have a voice over their country's future governance. Ann Jones, war correspondent, has been fighting a long time to guarantee that it will be a peace table of 50% women, which the US with its puppeteering money and power could make happen if it REMOTELY considered it a priority. But war and drug lords will take those chairs. And more bloodshed will come. Defending women is just a pr talking point for the USWarMachine playbook, not really a serious motivation. Profit over humanity matters to the patriarchal paradigm. Monopolizing paternalism prevails. No paradigm shift to humanism, cooperation, partnership. Power and control patriarchy wins. Why are we surprised? libby
Heh, heh. What a bunch of buffoons!

Lezlie
Lea Dear, I take issue with the Bed-wetter issue. This panel might have something valuable to say about it because they probably all WERE bedwetters as children!

I can only conclude the Republicans have become so divorced from reality that they're trying to lose half the American electorate at one go.

I hope the next time Darrell Issa returns to his district, several people will moon him in public.

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I can barely be counted upon to comment on this story. I'm so mad I'm bleeding behind my eyes. My imaginary penis is embarrassed to be associated with them.
But you are ballsy, Bell. And so are many of us wimmen.
Wonderful. Don't forget: pencil eyeliner or liquid; finding an easy way to get oil from two miles deep in the ocean; and, freesias or roses for a debutante ball.
Who in hell appointed them???

Lemme see... have they ever been female, 21, in college, and dating their first boyfriend?

Have THEY every missed a period and thought OH SHIT!

Have THEY ever driven their roommate to an abortion clinic?

Have THEY ever missed a pill and thought OH SHIT!

Have THEY ever had to contemplate what an ill-timed baby would mean to a career, education, boyfriend, or parents?

I didn't think so.
Do they know what year it is?
After all men -- especially white men with collars know everything about everything all of the time --- Good God, this is embarrassing because they don't even know how bad they make us look.
So the days of Father Knows Best are long gone Lea? As has been said before, if men could get pregnant, ready access to abortions would be written into the constitution.
the men were all religious leaders there to discuss the government mandate on contraception and religious freedom not women's health per say. it was the congresswomen on the commitee who framed it as a hearing on womens health. what if the men were all doctors tops in womens health from prestigious hospitals. would we still be having this conversation? just saying.
OMG!!!!! This is not simply a bunch of idiotic Republicans anymore, they've crossed the line into what is a danger to women everywhere. They've re-politicized me. No longer to be ignored.
MJ, there are women clergy to have broken up that boy band. Baaad mistake to go all male, as you can see by denese's comment. It politicizes women. As in moi, among many.
It also appears they are priests, who are of course experts in activities they are not permitted to experience, like marriage and child raising and conjugal relations. By that same logic, feel free to ask me anything about daily life on Mars.
I think the clergy on the panel were from different faiths. And yes, some were celibate. And they were talking birth control and women's issues.
Yes, a real slap in the face to all American women, that panel is.
There is legitimate form of birth control -- it's called abstinence, and I suggest women start practicing it -- on their husbands and boyfriends. Then let's see how long it takes the boys to "rethink" their position on other forms of birth control.

(I realize this won't have much effect on the Catholic hierarchy -- at least not on paper.)
Issa Isn't celibate? Or Is?
Tom, wasn't there a Greek play about that? How the women decided to hold back on the sex to end warring? I have a feeling that most of Congress already has this problem. In fact, maybe that's why they're so mean.
Very clever, Ms. Lane. Perhaps we should require any man who objects to female contraception but wants to have sex with a woman who does not want his baby to have a vasectomy?
Celibate? Hell, Issa isn't human.
Yes, the Lysistrata.

Perhaps it's time for an Issa-strata. I hope his wife divorces him, that his mother changes the locks on her doors and her phone number too, and that if he has any sisters, they pass him on the street without acknowledging him.
Ye gods! What is wrong with these people?! Smite them, or I will!!!!
Great points! (...and hilarious.)
Issa-strata. Love it!
Darryl Issa is a pandering crook and car thief, to boot. He's proof positive that *anyone* can be elected to the Congress of the United States of America. His constituents should be ashamed of themselves.

I can't post the link, but google

"Darrell Issa To Lead Obama Investigations: Suspected Arson, Car Theft, Weapons Charges! Wait! That Is Issa's Past!" by Jill Barkley. The creep has a long, sordid hisotry.
I appreciate the title change I believe it now.
I remember dealing with such an all-male panel back in the 60s. Similar issues...and I wondered then, where were the women who would understand my plight. It took a while but they arrived.

What a bunch of "good ol'boys" . They do look like the Salem Boys.
Issastrata deserves a post, and I may just do it. Women of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!
I planned to post one, but ran out of time before I had to leave for work. When I get home, though. The more the merrier for an Issa-Strata, Tom! =o)
This is why I don't keep up with the news.... Thanks for making me laugh about it, at least!
Looking forward to both Issa-stratas!
The above scene is straight out of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible". With this level of insight, it's just galling that most men do not get it. The women have indulged these neanderthals for far too long. They do not have the understanding to feel the most outer membrane of shame and decency.
And it is wrong on so many levels: the things that the churches stolidly purport here, relating women's medical issues to some plot of our government to render pure evil, is absolute nonsense. Don't people know that they are being manipulated, cajoled and urged to this nauseating degree? We are not the leader of civilization that we may like to think of ourselves.
It's as if we're all stuck in a very bad nightmare.
How about breast augmentation? Liposuction? Best birth control for you? Hot flashes- reducing them?

Hilarious! I wish each man read that post. Put them in their place(s)!
OMG...
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