I mean, the outcome is bad, but correct. The FDA is under an obligation to ensure the health and safety of foodstuffs, but helping prevent the rise of superbugs is not part of its mandate. It's Congress's responsibility to pass something to fix this — and Congress should do so, posthaste.

Jezebel, of course, pulled out one line of Sen. Kelly Ayotte's bill and mocked it. According to her press release, the bill adds this (arguably unnecessary) protection / confirmation of current law, but also expands contraception access. Unfortunately, it was only introduced yesterday, so the bill's text is not yet…

Under ecclesiastic law (which literally <i>is</i> the civil law in the Vatican), any person accused of a crime is innocent until proven guilty. There's good reason for that: amid the many completely true reports of sex abuse (which make the morning papers), there have been a great many others that were either never…

I've never seen G.I. Joe before, and my wife had to inform me — several minutes into the episode — that G.I. Joe was not actually a single person, but a whole organization of dudes with ridiculous names.

That episode was still beyond amazing. The thing about pop culture references is you don't necessarily have to…

But the overwhelming majority of <i>married</i> women are Republicans. Also the majority of white women. And if there's a ladies' site more white and married than Pinterest, I don't know about it.

Um, guys? South Carolina law ALREADY defines an "unborn child" using almost identical personhood language. See SECTION 16-3-1083. That's been on the books since 2006. Similar language is in the statute books of about 30 states.

Hobby Lobby's interpretation of the law was the law of the land from 1963 (Sherbert v. Werner) to 1990 (Employment Division v. Smith). The sky did not fall. Segregation did not survive. Sadly, Jezebel does not really do depth or context — it just rips the headlines off ThinkProgress and scrubs away any inconvenient…

Hey, there's more than Potbelly out there. We've got Erbert & Gerberts, we've got Jimmy John's, we've got Which Wich?... and that's just the good ones!

On what grounds, out of curiosity? Would you go for "undue burden"?

To be fair to your acquaintance, the fetuses-in-dumpsters thing did happen (still does, occasionally). Wikipedia refers to the most significant instance as the "Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal"; it occurred in 1982 and was a national controversy.

Just 5? I don't know about other faiths, but the Catholic religion holds that there are 55 to 56 days every year where you must attend Mass, on pain of mortal sin.

Isn't Gov. Brewer term-limited? Pretty explicitly, as I recall?

Fortunately, Comcast has farbed up my account details so severely since I moved that I can't even get into my account with my password.

You replace me with straw man and I'm the one being disingenuous? No - if my logic were true, nations that prosecute tax evasion would have less tax evasion than nations that don't. (Not none — you will never, ever, ever get none — but you will get less.) And this is broadly true; comparing the IRS to the Greek…

And people choose to rape less when they have a greater fear of punishment. No human choice is fully determined by incentives, but every human choice is affected by incentives.

Making rape easier to prosecute reduces rape. True of all crimes.

That's strange. Catholic teaching and the USCCB guidelines both allow for the removal of a dead baby, including via D&C. The Catholic definition of "abortion" is "killing of an unborn child," so if it's already dead, there should have been no problem getting it out.

Republicans passed a bill on October 2nd that would have funded these cancer treatments — H.J. 73. Senate Democrats have refused to take it up.

I don't understand what you're getting at. Could you explain?

THANK YOU! It is always frustrating to see Jezebel (justifiably) criticizing conservative ignorance and misrepresentation of science for political ends only to see Jezebel itself wildly overstate the science for its own political ends.