Also, what really frustrates me about the anti-abortion advocates is that if this really is about how horrible baby-murder is and how we need to go to any lengths necessary to stop it, up to and including shutting down the U.S. government, then why they hell are they not calling for much more funding of family…

I know that, that there is no arguing with them, that it is almost a purely knee-jerk moralizing reaction to the concept that they are rocking there. So sometimes, I go an engage them on the ground they choose to die on with one question:

Over on the Facebook feed of The Mary Sue, some idiots were commenting on the same story about how Margaret Sanger was a racist, as though even if that were true it would have any bearing on Planned Parenthood today.

Cat is all, *Sigh* “When do we get this over with, human?”

Give me a call when you want to deliver that punch, I want in on that action.

I read something on the Washington Post this morning about how pro-life activists are confused that support for Planned Parenthood has actually grown since the Center for Medical Progress started releasing their videos and congress went on the attack over the budget.

And like a class president, not only would he find any of those wild promises impractical to implement, he would also shockingly discover he simply lacks the power.

Because like female anti-feminists before her, putting down other women makes her feel more exceptional in her own power.

I bet Fiorina owns one of the most fabulous pairs of pants imaginable, because those pants are flaming.

She can “enthrall” the same way a train wreck is enthralling. Horrible, such a waste of human potential, and yet you cannot look away, fascinated by the carnage despite yourself.

Never more have I wished for a science fiction laser I could zap and just transfer unwanted pregnancies to these people.

A: Rape is a horrific crime that is never the fault of the victim, who deserves prompt and compassionate care.

Human beings are religious animals.

“Our side needs to be careful, master the arguments and master the facts and show that women’s health does not need abortions to be successful,” He concluded.

They had porn back in the thirties (a friend of mine collects vintage erotica.) Cosmo was tame even back then.

Something about God butchering babies? Are they saying we should defy the tyrant who struck down all the first born sons of Egypt prior to the Exodus?

What happens if you hold it up and solemnly swear you are up to no good? Does it tell you where all the major conservative celebrities are in the building?

It is an attitude that seems to go back, well, centuries: “We need to be harsh on the poor to motivate them, but if we don’t coddle the rich then the rich will lose their motivation.”

To be fair to Romeny, he had an excellent strategy for surviving the primary: keep his mouth shut until his more bombastic competitors inevitably self-destruct in their attempts to one-up each other.

He could try sending messages like, say, “I want to create a future in which every person willing to consistently put in a good day’s work can subsist comfortably without depending on government handouts.”