I don’t understand why the politicians are coming out with “defund them” rather than “prosecute them” if they really believe that laws are being broken. There hasn’t been (thankfully) any targeting of the research programs that are supposedly buying tissues either.

::citation needed::

But tax payers were not paying for it before. It’s illegal already for government money to go towards abortion. This is removing the 98% of planned parenthood services that are unrelated to abortion — contraception, cancer scans etc. That less than 2% of services that involve abortion are paid for by public donation…

Because it’s okay if girls play on the losing teams, but we can’t have fragile boys losing to a team with a girl.

The officials are in trouble not because of the existence of the rule, but because they didn’t enforce the rule this year until one of the girl-compatible teams made the playoffs.

Those little boys need to learn that treating girls as equals means sabotaging your chances of success. It’s not enough to be an asshole if you can’t make other people assholes too.

That always confuses me. “If someone in church had a gun . . . “ Someone did have a gun, he shot a bunch of people.

You mean there are places in the US without preachers screaming on street corners, Jesus fish and the what-church questions? I know there are varying degrees of crazy, but here in Columbus Ohio they don’t wait for summer to start screwing up sidewalk traffic — outside the statehouse it’s nearly year round.

The republicans seem to be against HPV vaccines, birth control and public health care. Can we just call them the pro-cancer party now?

Having a child who is willing to question authority isn’t always a bad thing — she just needs to learn to look up the words to prove herself correct (or not).

But there’s still a very real, high cost to women of choosing a sexual partner who is violent.

Doesn’t need to be made true when it’s true already. Evolution doesn’t care who has sex. Evolution cares who has grandchildren.

Remember that in evolutionary biology, genetic exchange alone is not a success. The success of a trait or tactic requires reproductive age offspring. Resources available to offspring is the primary indicator of offspring reaching reproductive age.

End up at his house because he’s 60 years old, disabled and not really threatening?

Making jackass radio hosts uncomfortable with jackass behavior is an impressive, and useful, superpower.

The anti-abortion groups wanted, I think, to make the case that because some fetal tissues could be used (for any reason) that there is then a profit motive for planned parenthood to discourage women from completing a pregnancy. It would make more sense than the other argument that PP is full of evil people who just…

Because parents have a big influence on college decision making?

Why do popular, attractive and talented people catch the flu? Rain falls on the just and the unjust.

How could daycare workers not notice enormous blisters on the kids? I hope the other kids were checked for sunstroke and dehydration.

The canary islands were named for the large, drooling mastiffs: Perro de Presa Canario. I kinda doubt that cats are hanging out at “the island of the dogs” during the dog days of summer.