Does a career politician who’s spent his professional life (like his father before him, and his son after him) on the public tit really want to go there? If it’s easy to make fun of the Cat Food Commission, it’s even easier to mock “Pink Panthers” and their (our) sensitivity about “degrading, sexist, ageist and …
Vagina Outrage
New Treatment for Psychotic Depression?
The temptation is to make a joke about timeliness, but too many of us know how crippling (sometimes fatal) a disease depression can be. Or perhaps that knowledge is why we make such jokes. From ABC News, “Controversial RU-486 Studied For Treatment of Psychotic Depression”: … The drug, a synthetic steroid compound known as mifepristone, …
Guns Don’t Kill, Pubes Do?
Via Jezebel, Lisa Russ has a modest proposal regarding sex education in our schools: … Despite the fact that Texas ranks third in the rate of teen pregnancies and that its students are more sexually active and that they have more sex partners than the average U.S. student, sex ed here is nearly exclusively devoted …
A Disgrace to Her Gender
Shorter Maureen Dowd: My status as a childless, never-married woman in the Ladies Sodality DC Media Village makes me the perfect expert to criticize Michelle Obama’s marital and child-raising talents. But I’m using the classic “feminine” passive-aggressive trick of lovingly retailing every nasty rightwing slur ironically, because I am just that hip, so it proves …
Skeert of The Mean Lady, Elizabeth Warren
Shamelessly stolen from Jim Newell’s Gawker article, “Will Tough, Awesome Elizabeth Warren Head the New Consumer Protection Agency?”: … Warren’s voice became more prominent over the last decade for her work studying credit card company abuses and other, suddenly very common financial sector exploitations of the debt-saddled middle class. Her fame and popularity “exploded” (Washington-wise!) …
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Be Still My Fluttering Heart
I can’t tell you how excited I am at the prospect of a debate over birth control in the year 2010. Do these religious nuts not have anything better to do than to fight battles they lost decades ago? How about a stirring debate on heliocentrism or phlogiston? Although I guess we should appreciate the …
You Say Abortion, I Say Contraception
The FDA is considering approval of “Ella”, a new morning after pill that works up to five days after sex, causing Right-To-Lifers to get all pissy pants (via). That’s funny, because this WHO study (via this menstruation blog) shows that the existing Plan B emergency contraception pill will stop most pregnancies in the five day …