2013 is shaping up to be another banner year for those seeking to limit the bodily autonomy of women, with state lawmakers passing 106 provisions during the first six months of the year to limit...
What War on Women?
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Sanity Break: Grasshopper Test Flight
Mondays are rough, aren’t they? Here’s an afternoon sanity break brought to you by the SpaceX Grasshopper. Video of its latest test flight was published on Friday. HD viewing is...
Whoops! Kansas Schools Lose Insurance After Gun Vote
Here’s one the Right Wing probably didn’t see coming. Kansas schools that are moving to allow teachers to carry guns may quickly find themselves uninsured and insurable. via USA Today DES...
The Next Hostage Crisis
According to the National Journal, House Republicans, under the leadership of John Boehner, are drafting a plan to hold the debt ceiling hostage, and their ransom demand will be to enact the Paul...
DOA
Artist – Clay Bennett In other news, according to the Center of Investigative Reporting, as many as 148 female inmates, and possibly even more, were sterilized without state approval by the...
Fashionable Footwear
Artist – Nick Anderson In other news, according to the Economic Policy Institute, austerity has cost at least 3 million jobs in the U.S. over the past four years. Continue reading →...
Governor Scott Walker Signs Mandatory Ultrasounds Into Law
While many people were still out for the holiday or otherwise incapacitated yesterday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walked signed mandatory ultrasounds into law. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly...
June Jobs Report Exceeds Expectations
The June jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday exceeded expectations, and previous estimates for the months of April and May were also revised upward. Payrolls rose by...
Why Not The Guillotine? Public Hangings?
While the state of Missouri is facing delays in their busy execution schedule because the company that sells the drugs used for lethal injection will no longer sell them based on moral grounds (yes...
Happy 4th
Artist – Dave Granlund No other news today. Go have a coke and a smile. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
Gettysburg Regress
Artist – Chris Weyant In other news, white non-Hispanics will no longer be the majority population of California as of this month according to the California Department of Finance. Meanwhile...
CBO: Senate Immigration Bill May Reduce Illegal Immigration By Half
From the Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Comprehensive immigration legislation passed by the Senate would reduce illegal immigration into the U.S. by one-third to one-half beyond what would...
Jackass Quote of the Day
“Let’s get on with this and enjoy our holiday.” -State Senator Tom Apodaca (R-MotherFucker) on fast-tracking an abortion bill Pardon my french, but this man is an asshole. Continue...
Marco Rubio Enlists in the War on Women
Republican outreach continues. Senator Macro Rubio has announced that he will be joining his comrades in Texas, Ohio, and North Carolina to carry on the fight against bodily autonomy for women. Sen...
Equal Justice
Artist – Rob Rogers In other news, Americans are apparently attempting to take their loaded guns on planes more often today that they have in the recent past. In the first six months of this...
Still Digging
Following the exodus of all her sponsors and corporate partnerships, Paula Deen is still digging in that deep hole. What I would describe as her driving the point home that she is a racist is now...
Keeping Up With The Gohmert
In a scenario which was bound to turn out just as it did, Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) recently guest-hosted the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch radio program, and during his...
Running With Scissors
This headline could almost be taken literally. Gun rights fetishists in Utah are organizing a 5K race and “armed dash” where runners will carry their guns while running. In the town of...
Arizona Nineteen
Artist – Dave Granlund In other news, 19 firefighters were killed while battling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona yesterday, marking the worst casualty event for firefighters since September...
Nice Things and Why We Can’t Have Them
This should be self-explanatory. And as you may recall, only The Weather Channel carried the president’s speech in full. MSNBC carried it for 41 seconds. (via Judd Legum) Continue reading...