Lisa Pryor discovers that, as it is hard to get emergency supplies of the Pill, it's a good idea to keep spares in your wallet.
Well, duh. Although she's right about the illogic of easily-available Morning After Pills but giant rigmaroles to get the long-term pill, DUH. i don't think i ever managed to lose mine- forget to take them, yes, but not lose them. And i'm the Queen of Disorganisation.
And I think she's missed one of the more pertinent problems with pill-prescription these days: Why are some varieties covered and not others? Is it somehow my fault if the PBS covered versions have me spotting all month, and I have to be shifted onto one which costs thirty something dollars a month?

Meanwhile, have you considered doing a PHD in Obsolescence?

In cheering news, the Amish community whose schoolchildren were gunned down last year have donated money to the gunman's widow.

You may have heard that the emoticon :-) recently turned 25. However, The Cranky Proffessor would have us all know that, in 1887, Ambrose Bierce coined the "snigger point" using, like the modern emoticon, a parenthesis, although somewhat differently.

And, in belated medieval news- they're digging up a Viking Queen.