The "Dropshot" Edition

Subscribers,

Some of you come for the blog and stay for the news. Some come for the news and tolerate the blog. Whatever you’re here for, I appreciate it.

Since I have a houseful of guests and two of them are in a (men’s tennis) tourney this whole weekend, I am busy spectator-ing and catering.

So I will only leave you with my one semi-annoyed thought for the week. Why do food and pantry items that are labeled “organic” and “farmer produced” and “local” and “dye free” and “non-GMO” seem to have the most plastic packaging? You know what doesn’t need a plastic box? Garlic. Oatmilk? Give me a carton, not an industrial strength plastic bottle with a screw top that will last deep into the next millennia. Those cute little green cardboard pints of blueberries work fine. So do glass jars and paper bags. I get it, I get it, our tomatoes would be smushed and our raspberries pre-pureed, but I am just pointing out that Big Tomato can use all the plastic they want, but Farmer Joe who professes to be Good For The Earth is loading up my produce with every more complex geodesic dome structures of plastic doom. Also, Heinz, Hellman’s, and Grey Poupon— if you’re going to package your super-basic condiments in an upside-down plastic squeeze bottle that wouldn’t melt on the surface of the sun, at least don’t insult me by making it so that half the goop inside never gets out of the bottle. I think they call that adding insult to hamburgers and hotdogs.

Now, subscribers, after that missive— where do you stand? Blog or News?

Hopefully you are *all* here for the best news of the week by, for, and about women will not be disappointed. From Politics to Pop Culture, and everything in between. Every week, just for you, from me, curated with care and a distinct point of view.

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Happy August!

Peace out,

LZ

THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:

A Wearable Ultrasound Scanner Could Detect Breast Cancer Earlier via MIT

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POLITICS:

Dallas Attorney Sydney Powell Appears To Be ‘Co-Conspirator’ In New Trump Indictment via The Texas Tribune

The Taliban’s Ban On Hair and Beauty Salons Won’t Just Hurt Afghanistan’s Women via The Globe and Mail

JURISPRUDENCE:

Family Of Henrietta Lacks Settles With Biotech Company That Used Her Cels via The New York Times

HEALTH, PREGNANCY & PARENTING:

The Embryo Matchmaker via The Cut

The FDA Approves The First Pill Specifically Intended To Treat Post Partum Depression via NPR

THE ARTS, SPORTS & POP CULTURE:

Chinese Feminists Flock To See ‘Barbie’ via The Financial Times

Hollywood Elite Rushes To Get Plastic Surgery Before The Strike Ends via Allure

Thanks To Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett, New Life For A 1988 Film via The New York Times

Simone Biles Set To Return To Competitive Gymnastics After Two-Year Absence via CNN

OBITUARIES:

Mari Ruti, Scholar Of Gender, Sexuality, and More, Dies at 59 via The New York Times

…AND WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT?:

The Prize For Longest Pregnancy In Mammals May Go To This Whale via The New York Times