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While researching for the many magical non-cooking uses for garlic (you can apparently use it to make glue and cosmetics!), I learned that garlic can be also used to treat yeast infection. What?

So says an article on MidwiferyToday.com. Sufferers of this annoying condition can take a clove of garlic, peel off the papery skin, insert the clove in the vagina at night and remove it in the morning. For a more potent treatment, you can cut the garlic in half (to expose the infected area more directly with the powerful garlic juices) and repeat the treatment for several days.

In both cases, it is recommended to sew a string through the clove for easy retrieval. (Think tampon, but with garlic.)

Why garlic? In addition to spicing up the blandest dinner recipe, garlic is a potent yeast and bacterial-killer. And unlike antibiotics and other over-the-counter medicine, garlic is 100% natural: the only side-effect you will have to worry about is mild garlic breath. (It is common for

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, the best-selling memoir by writer Elizabeth Gilbert, is the ultimate emotional porn for women.

And like millions of other women, I ate up every single page of it. Finding yourself and falling in love after a very painful divorce? Encountering life-changing spiritual epiphanies while traveling solo in several exotic countries? Oh, yes, yes, YES! Give me MORE!

Needless to say, my heart sank when I heard that a movie version of the memoir was in the making and it was going to star Julia Roberts. When the movie trailer of Eat, Pray, Love finally came out on Apple trailers, my morbid curiosity compelled me to watch.

I am not excited at all to see this movie.

Gilbert's memoir works so well because it is exactly that: a memoir. It is a series of extraordinary events that so happened to a woman gifted with the ability of narrating her life experiences in an extremely likable,

Looking for some online smut to watch with your partner-in-crime--or just by yourself? Certainly, there's no shortage of porn, nudity and other X-rated material when you are surfing the web. But what if you are getting bored of seeing the same bleached blond sorority-type with the pierced nipples and boob job getting gang-banged by five douchey-looking bros in some guy's apartment?

Not all porn sites are created equal. And contrary to popular belief, not all porn has to be just about some dude getting off on dominating some chick with a spray-on tan. Is it possible that porn can be about celebrating female pleasure, too?

And contrary to another popular belief, not all males enjoy watching Barbie-doll lookalikes-- and actually would prefer to see very real-looking women achieve orgasm on their own without the help of any studly male "professors" or "gynecologists."

I asked one male acquaintance for his recommendations of non-mainstream, women-friendly porn sites that fit

The Today Show is hosting a contest,Today's Wedding: Modern Love! "TODAY is throwing a modern day wedding! Whether your love blossomed over the Internet or you met the old-fashioned way, we want to hear from you!" touts its Facebook entry page. It's a seemingly sweet idea- you and your significant other can enter to win a wedding on the Today Show and you get a free honeymoon!

Awesome!

Right?

Well, sure, if you're heterosexual.

Apparently "modern love" still excludes the millions of gay and lesbian couples out there.

According to fine print, winners must be heterosexual.

Maybe I'm a little desensitized from living in a city where just last fall we reportedly had more medical marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks but firing a man for a legitimate marijuana prescription to deal with the pain of his brain tumor seems a little harsh to me. This isn't some bro that went to Venice and ranted about headaches to some "doctor" off the boardwalk. This man was legitimately in need of pain medication yet Wal-Mart found that completely unacceptable.

This was bound to happen sooner or later. A new online social network is now out in beta form--and it's specifically for kids too young for Facebook.

Called Togetherville, this online network aims to emulate the digital version of a safe and friendly neighborhood that is fun and interactive for both child and parent. As the founder and parent Mandeep Singh Dhillon says in an article in CNN:

"We built Togetherville using the spirit of the neighborhoods most of us remember when we were kids," said co-founder, CEO, and parent Mandeep Singh Dhillon, "where everyone knows everyone else and watches out for each other. In Togetherville, parents have peace of mind that their kids are playing with people they know and trust and kids have fun while learning the tools they need to become good digital citizens."

As online safety is a huge concern with any parent, the developers of Togetherville emphasize parental controls and parental permission for their children who enter this

Ah, Florida. The Sunshine State and land of incredibly bizarre news.

Over the past couple years, Florida has become the capital of odd-ball news stories from the incredibly silly to the frighteningly horrifying. For example, one Miami Herald headline from 2009 reads "Someone dragged a six-foot nurse shark onto the Metromover and through the streets of Miami, trying unsuccessfully to sell it for $10 before finally abandoning it in Overtown." Not to mention a man who beat his daughter to death for not being a boy or another man arrested for biking in a Batman Suit.

Now, one Florida doctor is prenatally administering drugs to assure that the babies turn out heterosexual.

Fox released an exclusive interview with Bristol Palin. In the interview she described breaking the news to her parents was "harder than labor". I've never had to tell my parents I'm pregnant nor have I given labor so I can't say too much on that front although I can say her statement on her role as an advocate of abstinence sounds a lot more like "Take the pill!" than "Just say no!"

Yeahhh, this is about the least convincing thing I've ever heard in terms of staying abstinent because yes, she is right. Others don't choose that