This is extremely bizarre. Given that the text says "There's No Place Like Home," the editors are trying to connect the image to the Oz movie. But WHY? Is it supposed to be commentary about Baum's attitudes? Is there accompanying text meant to inform people about his pro-genocide stance?

This baby cat, Nikita Khrushchev Kirov-ihateemo, went missing this morning in San Francisco. He normally sticks to some local gardens and backyards, and comes when called, but half an hour after being let out this morning he was gone.

Haha yay! I loved that comment.

Yeah, it's huge. Wonderful, hopeful news about a heartbreaking subject.

No, it wouldn't. Some things that happen in the world really matter.

Well, that's my cynical gloss. You should read the link I gave you.

Basically, it works to "prove" one of two things: (1) the woman is a virgin and is lying about the rape, or (2) the woman's vagina is "habituated to sexual intercourse" and thus she's a slut and was asking for it.

HOLY SHIT.

I just love it when Jez covers the exact same fucking thing Gawker covered a couple days before. http://gawker.com/5987921/masochistic-dude-asks-his-wife-to-slap-him-awake-every-day-for-two-weeks-records-the-result Especially when it comes after a day of Doug Barry idiocy.

Uh... you're not going to bother mentioning that this was an alleged gang rape that involved FIVE men? That the finger test (meant to determine if a woman is a virgin and test the "laxity" of her vagina) was performed on a married woman who has a baby (I don't know the age of the baby, but she was either pregnant or…

The man described by her list doesn't want a woman who writes such a list.

The best part.

Thanks.

Right. It's a two step process. So?

"We were asking judge to stop them physically forcing her to have an abortion" is the only mention of physical force in the original article (on which the others seem to be based).

But is there any evidence whatsoever that she might be forced? "Forced" is a complicated word; what non-coerced consent looks like is complicated. An irritable quote from her dad plus what's likely a joke about sneaking abortifacients into her food don't indicate she's being forced.

I did google it, but the link (on Fox News) to the source doc is down. The Fox News piece (which will be the most sympathetic to the girl, for obvious reasons) does mention "physical threats" but then backs it up with this quote: "(The father) stated he was going to take her to have an abortion and that the decision…

No, it's not. Medical abortions are common even into the second trimester, though normally they're reserved for early abortions here in the US.

Where does it say she's going to get physically abused if she doesn't have an abortion?

Haha. You're absolutely right. I wasn't thinking about the fact that the innocent twin is privy to the same evidence we're hearing about.