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Our friend Gary wins for the week. And now I’ll leave the poor little guy alone.
...read moreMore on the right-wing zealot in charge of reproductive health funding
I touched on this a few days ago, but Eric Keroak, the new chief of family planning programs for the Department of Health and Human Services, is very bad news. Zuzu wrote about his unfortunate habit of copyright infringement, and the bad science he uses to defend his religiously-motivated beliefs. Feministing has more details, and [...]
...read moreBad Science AND Copyright Infringement!
Jill told you this week about Dr. Eric Keroack, the anti-choice, anti-contraception quack doctor who’s been put in charge of Title X funding by Fearless Leader. Because it’s always a great idea to have someone who is against contraception in charge of administering federal funding for it. But let’s take a closer look at some [...]
...read moreThe Battle of the Entitled
Everyone loves privileged Ivy-league kids rapping about how much better their top-three university is than another top-three university. Especially when they throw in lines about how they rape Harvard women, among other pleasant images of slitting throats and packing gats. Classy, fellas. You do your school proud. Notably, this seems to be a pattern among [...]
...read moreLook who’s in charge of your uterus
Anti-choice? Check. Runs a “crisis pregnancy center,” which misleads and lies to women? Check. Proponent of abstinence-only education which tells people that they use up their ability to love after too many sexual partners? Check. In charge of deciding how millions of federal dollars will be spent on reproductive health issues, especially for contraceptive access, [...]
...read moreGreat Moments in Journalism
Our friend Gary makes it onto Gawker. Thanks to Shannon for the link.
...read moreSee? You really *can* blame women for everything!
Via Feministing: Missouri’s Republican-led state gummint appointed a legislative panel to study illegal immigration, and the panel has determined that… … wait for it … Yes! Women are to blame for illegal immigration! How, you ask? Why, it’s just selfishness, selfishness, selfishness! Those damn wimmins, wanting control over their reproductive lives and bodily autonomy! They’re [...]
...read moreHa!
The guy arrested for sending fake anthrax threats through the mail to anti-war celebrities, journalists and politicians . . . probably a Freeper. One with a crush on Coulter, Ingraham and Malkin. Hm. Wonder where he was getting those ideas about threatening people whose opinions he doesn’t like?
...read moreAsshole of the Week
Gary Miller. NYU’s Washington Square News, the student newspaper, has got to be one of the most depressing publications on the planet.* I have a special place in my heart for the paper because I worked there for three years, as a sports writer, an opinion columnist, and eventually as editor of the opinion section. [...]
...read moreHoly shit! Rumsfeld stepping down
I’ve got Bush’s press conference right now, and he’s just said that he and Rumsfeld agree that it’s time for new leadership at the Pentagon.One whole sentence on this point from CNN confirms. The new nominee is Bob Gates, the current president of…Texas A&M. Bush is also disappointed in the tone of things in Washington. [...]
...read moreJack Shafer didn’t satisfy the jackass quotient?
UPDATE I: please see Lesley’s comments for some fuller criticisms of Kendall’s methodology UPDATE II: I expected better from Freakonomics. Slate.com has some good things going for it, like Dahlia Lithwick. It’s also got some downsides, like Jack Shafer Clearly, Shafer wasn’t enough, because now Slate’s got Steven Landsburg and his simple declarative sentences. Guess [...]
...read moreScore one for the rapists
Well this is good news for sexual assaulters everywhere: A Maryland appellate court has ruled that consent cannot be withdrawn once sex has started. This is an incredibly frightening ruling. It essentially means that once penetration occurs, you have no right to end it until your partner does. Once you’re having sex, you lose basic [...]
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