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By Andy on June 17, 2010
So happy to know they have crazy assholes down under: The outspoken Steve Fielding, from the conservative Family First Party, [presumably implying all opponents hate families] said women could attempt to cheat the centre-left Labor government’s plans for paid leave by deliberately conceiving a child they never intended to have. ”Drug addicts and welfare cheats can [...]
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By Andy on May 18, 2010
Glimmers: A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix. For unknown reasons, the young [...]
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By Andy on May 17, 2010
He’s ready for another close-up. The Rove brand was tarnished in 2006, when Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate. His exit from the White House the following year was dogged by scandals, from the political firing of U.S. attorneys to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. And with his longtime enemy [...]
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By Andy on May 7, 2010
How about not cutting up babies period? The American Academy of Pediatrics has suggested a new way to fight female genital mutilation in the United States: Allow doctors to give girls a “nick” down there. In a policy statement titled “Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors,” the Academy suggests that allowing such a ritual could [...]
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By Andy on April 29, 2010
Washington City Paper walks through several Republican-side hypocrisy traps: Bristol Palin: At some point, we forgot about why Bristol having sex was funny to begin with. The insane glee that we all derived from a teenage girl having sex before marriage became counter-intuitive—and downright creepy. We had crossed the hypocrisy bridge. We were no longer [...]
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By Andy on April 28, 2010
NYTimes: A second measure passed into law on Tuesday prevents women who have had a disabled baby from suing a doctor for withholding information about birth defects while the child was in the womb. Opponents argue that the law will protect doctors who purposely mislead a woman to keep her from choosing an abortion. But the [...]
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By Andy on April 27, 2010
Mississippi and Arizona should date: When Veronica Rodriguez opened Wesson Attendance Center’s Yearbook on Friday, she didn’t find a trace of her lesbian daughter Ceara Sturgis after a long battle with school officials to include a photo of her daughter wearing a tuxedo in the school’s 2010 yearbook. Sturgis and her mother commissioned the Mississippi [...]
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By Andy on April 23, 2010
They forgot the suffix: “an’ make me a pie!” The Daily Kos reproduces this gem from a newsletter for the the Medina County Ohio Republican Executive Committee: “Lets take Betty Sutton out of the House and get her back in the kitchen!” Oh, those cards! Sutton supporters are understandably upset, but Medina County GOP Chair [...]
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By Andy on April 11, 2010
Women’s history expert and champion for womens rights everywhere explains how Palin embodies the spirit of feminism and Frank Sinatra: “[Sarah Palin's] clearly a total feminist, I mean in the true sense of feminism, she is her own person. She does her own thing. She does it her way.” -Newt Gingrich A comment from the [...]
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By Andy on April 11, 2010
I feel like the same thing happens over at CNN’s financial desk but there they make their jawlines too sharp and their hair and skin tones get a bit creepy. When a woman gets a job on the “fair and balanced” news network, she gets “Foxified.” No matter how she looks or how old she [...]
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