- Absentee ballots and undocumented citizenship A good post on the GOP’s likely-to-succeed attempts at voter suppression.
- Closing the Memory Hole: Remembering the Dance Marathons
- QUOTE: And if we were to recognize that self-righteous indignation is a bona fide drug high, and that yes, just like alcohol, some of us can engage in it on occasion — as a matter of fact, when I engage in it, I get into a real bender — but then say, “Enough.” —David Brin
- Regnerus study controversy guide
- Jimmy Fallon Sings The Reading Rainbow Theme Song in the Style of The Doors
- If you have a few bucks, please consider donating to the fund to rebuild the Joplin Mosque, which was destroyed by arson. “This is, of course, far from the only incident of its kind; to the contrary, in a trend largely ignored by the American media, hate crimes against American Muslims are at epidemic levels.”
- Reasons Given for Inaction of Men’s Rights Movements
- The Fiscal Cliff No One Is Talking About: Unemployment benefits will soon run out for many.
- Incredible New Sketchbook Illustrations from Mattias Adolfsson
- If poverty is caused by bad culture, what does that say about the conservative states?
- “Jeannette wasn’t filled with hate. She simply didn’t know much about gays — just enough, in fact, to be completely wrong about us. … I didn’t find hate on that doorstep.”
- Exaggerating gender changes (stay at home dads are not the new normal)
- “In the years since the collapse of 2008, the existence of mass unemployment has stopped being something the economic powers that be even pretend to regard as a crisis.”
- Nine takeaways on Romney’s tax plan.
It looks to me like she is a lefty who switched her cup to the right in response to his…
Joe Biden doesn’t know what century it is, he doesn’t know what state he’s in, and “he’s gonna put y’all in chains” is racist. Tell me again how he’s so much more fit to be President than Sarah Palin. And I’m no Palin fan, either.
Stay at home dads are the new normal in the sense that they no longer are seen as abnormal. That’s at least what i got out of the full quote from the NY Times article:
GOP candidate for Missouri Senate seat says “pregnancy almost never results from legitimate rape.”
Which only proves that Mark Lunsford Pryor was right.
“Legitimate rape”.
My mind boggles.
From the article:
Hear that, ladies? If you don’t want to be pregnant, just “shut that whole thing down”. Your “female body” has “ways”, and if you can’t tap into them, well, maybe your body just wasn’t female enough.
Grace
What’s even more disturbing is that it can be read as an argument that pregnancy implies consent (if it really was rape then you wouldn’t have gotten pregnant).
Another idiotic misogynist line of bull from the Republicans. I’m not a huge fan of the Democrats either but I think they at least only hate women slightly less than the Republicans appear to do.
Atkins just said what more men in politics believe out loud so people could hear it. That’s all.
@Tamen – it was pointed out archly by one of my friends that this could revolutionize the criminal justice system and save money in the process. Did the victim get pregnant? Case dismissed!
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has been accused of sexual harassment and discrimination against male employees.
Pretty sensational. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this. It’ll also be interesting to see what treatment this gets from the media, whether they’ll play it up.
Update to article #1:
Hm. Seems to me that no weekend voting will favor people who don’t work during the week. What party will that help?
Akin’s comment was contemptible. It seems foolish to me, however, to attempt to partisanize it. I’ve heard that comment, or similar ones, a number of times…this time, and then many previous times. The previous times were all in Mississippi, and the people making it were Democrats. It’s a quasi-common justification by people who are pro-life but who don’t want (or aren’t able) to deal with the genuine moral conflict produced when dealing with pregnancies that come as a result of rape.
Pro-life Democrats have been told or trained to hush up, which is why you don’t hear much from them these days. But they’re still out there, and some of them are ignorant of reproductive science (willfully or otherwise) just like Mr. Akin.
That’s obvious. The GOP since so much of their voter base are retirees on Social Security and Medicare!
Robert – were those pro-life democrats running for a national election?
This isn’t just about the views held by the Republican base, it’s about who the party chooses to endorse for a role in government.
(Just to be entirely clear – I mean that above as a genuine question, not a rhetorical one, I really don’t know what the opinions of Mississippi democratic politicians are)
Akin isn’t running for a national election. We only have one of those.
I agree that who the parties endorse can be indicative of their priorities; I would disagree that there’s any reason for one party or the other to be especially embarassed vis a vis their competition. Selection bias allows us all to think the other group full of fools; I see both sides as having fools thick on the ground. The only variance is in what they tend to be dumbasses about.
This isn’t just about the views held by the Republican base, it’s about who the party chooses to endorse for a role in government.
My guess would be that Rep. Akin’s theories on rape and pregnancy didn’t come up during Mississippi’s GOP Senate primary.
The poor shall always be with us. How can we help them? A new study suggests a possible intervention: Give’em money!
In short: Less poverty today means less health problems tomorrow. If we’re going to socialize health care costs (and we should), let’s pay to stop certain chronic health problems in the womb — literally and metaphorically.
Generally I have not been impressed with the thesis that people who oppose homosexuals are repressing their own latent homosexuality.
But, as Pat Roberson observed, hurricanes are God’s punishment for homosexuality. (That, and disco era fashions.) So when we God-fearing Christians see Hurricane Izaak descending on Tampa just in time for the Republican Convention, what other conclusion can we draw?
It’s funny that when the tornado leveled Joplin MO last year, and half the Midwest flooded, there was no religious explanation for that. Strange how fickle God apparently is about when He’s using natural disasters to make a point and when he isn’t.
No, that one was God too. Floods and tornadoes are for people who spawn-camp in online MMORPGs. It just didn’t get as much press, because EVERYBODY hates those corn-fed loot jackers.
Robert – good to know! I get so easily confused about these things.
Well. obviously God isn’t going to waste time updating a female therapis on current policy. He’s seen the comments at your blog; he knows how you are.
Well, well, well. The bishop of Oakland, future archbishop of San Francisco, Mister Prop 8 because gay marriage threatens families himself, was arrested for drunk driving over the weekend.