The FDA announced on Friday that Gardasil is now approved for people up to 45 years of age.

Also, *if you have already been diagnosed with HPV at some point*, if you can get your doctor and insurance company (maybe just don’t tell them) to cover it, there are studies that have demonstrated that the vaccine has not only a preventative but a therapeutic effect.

Full disclosure, I participated in one of these studies and have tested negative every year since for 11 years. GET IT!

...being free sucks. Not only do I not have a cat on me, but now I have to clean the house.

I’m not sure why I thought of this again this morning— combination of some takes on farming and on corporations not being intrinsically evil (LMFAO), but I used to be an (don’t throw things) executive assistant at a hedge fund* that had a fund with the rather innocuous name The American Farmland Company. This fund was quite literally contemporary sharecropping.

*technically a fund of funds— ask me to clarify if you care, but prepare to get really angry