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 [...]

I'm just going to throw this out there, unedited, for everyone's enjoyment. I have, thankfuckinggawd, somehow avoided having anyone in my email contacts who sends shit like this to me… unless (as in this case), a friend got it from her mother, and she was SO flabbergasted by the idiocy, she had to share. And [...]

So some asshole tries to blow up a plane with his crotch. (Bad jokes about Superman's sperm come to mind… but anyway!) It's not even likely that the amount of chemically goodness in the Panty Liner of Doom™ was enough to actually bring the plane down, but no mind… everyone else gets to be patted [...]

(Really, this ought to be reason #1, but it's the third reason I became aware of, chronologically speaking.) In the UK, the police can raid your home based on "unusual heat patterns" spotted via aerial infrared photos. Indeed, it seems that aerial surveillance is the order of the day over there. At least the Telegraph [...]