This should terrify us all. Lord knows it scared me enough that I couldn't get back to sleep after hearing it on NPR early this morning. That is, after it made me laugh out loud, and then fuzzily wonder if I wasn't just dreaming it all up. But no. No, there is video evidence: Christine, [...]

I've been volunteering with Planned Parenthood leading up to our primary election, trying to make sure teen girls have access to abortion services if they need them. I've also been reading up about the Obama administration's cowardly bullshit maneuver excluding abortion coverage from the temporary federal high-risk insurance pools. Oh, and also making note of [...]

Rah Rah Rah! Go Jeezis! And Exxon! Sarah Palin is a lunatic. If she ever achieves a measurable level of political power, she'll be a dangerous lunatic. She's closely affiliated with a bat-shit crazy evangelical group plotting to take over the world for Jesus (using brilliant tactics like assigning Prayer Warriors to every street in [...]

In years past, when I visited the UK (which happens to be where I am now), I'd tell people where I was from, and they'd exclaim, "Alaska?!" as though they didn't realize you could actually get here from there, and then they'd ask one of a handful of questions: Is it really like Northern Exposure? [...]

OK, enough of the Sarah Palin crap … Obama might have only been talking about McCain's policies when he said "lipstick on a pig," but I'm not. I'm talking about McCain's entire candidacy … and as far as I'm concerned, that's all Palin was: Lipstick for a pig of a presidential candidate. And it's not [...]