This is the podcast for March 23, 2012.

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Recorded live from just outside the Congressional Uterus Knitting Circle.

It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.

That's just a new DuPont Circle, isn't it, Blue Gal?

Well, everyone has sent this to me this week.

I have been inundated with people mailing knitted uteri to their Congress people.

And the pattern for this came out a couple years ago.

There have been all kinds of subversive knitting movements to yarn bomb tanks that are out there,

you know, cover them with knitting or a crochet and cover guns on statues with knitting and

all good. I'm doing something different which is in you know in addition to these kind of movements I'm not criticizing this at all I think it's fine but I think it's a waste of yarn to mail to mail it to your congressman send him the pattern and tell him instead of being busy

getting into your other people's uterus he should knit his own there you go but uh one of my

twitter friends and face-to-face friends has been knitting hats for gaza uh there's now a movement to knit

hats um for doctors without borders to send baby hats to Pakistan.

See, that is a good idea.

Yeah.

That's a really good idea.

You know, we're talking, we've talked about this a lot about how many babies are born on Medicaid every year in this country.

There was a big announcement because we're having a huge Medicaid crisis here in Illinois.

And, you know, it's over half the babies in Illinois are born on Medicaid.

And so it's really important to support those babies with a hat or a blanket or whatever.

Hats for the homeless programs are everywhere.

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