According to an article in the Wash. Post by Gabrielle Bluestone - “Jane Buckingham, accused of paying someone to take the ACT for her son and then asking for a copy of the exam to administer to him at home so he would think he’d really taken the test.” I actually feel for this kid with a mother like that. 

When you can’t decide which city should be the capital, make a new city that most people outside of Australia forget about

Adelaide is a lovely city, but it’s not the capital of Australia- that would be slightly less-lovely Canberra.

I do like Bishop’s correction to Melania’s gender assumptions. I wonder if the gender neutral phrasing of the lunch also throw Melania for a loop.

I’ve told that riddle several times to grown adults and it is endlessly amusing (but also concerning) to me how many people are sure the right answer is “gay dads” instead of the more statistically probable “mom doctor”

Good old Tucker Carlson, the Bow-Tied Wonder. Owner of one of the most punchable faces in ‘Murica.

There’s this study, where dudes are asked if they would or have raped anyone. Pretty much nobody has. Then they ask for specific actions (“have you had sex with an impaired woman, ie drunk or drugged””have you had sex with a woman who isn’t really into it” etc). A large percentage of them change their answer to yes.

Uh, Carlson, Warren Jeffs had numerous students at his academy where he was principal (before taking over as their prophet) say that he raped and molested both the boys and girls there for years. That was in addition to marrying and then repeatedly raping girls just barely in their teens.

When a guy named Bubba the Love Sponge is telling you you’ve gone too far and sounds more reasonable than you, you know it’s bad. Also, guys like Tucker see teenage girls as their future 3rd wives. When you think of them as a few years off from being your next trophy wife, it’s a easy to sexualize them. 

I don’t get the whole need to repeatedly rank sexual assault, as though it matters? “Well, marrying an underage girl isn’t as bad as kidnapping a girl at a bus stop, and groping a woman at a bar isn’t as bad as groping a woman at work, blah blah blah.” What’s the psychology there? Do they think people don’t know the…

“though parents can obtain an exemption for medical, religious, or personal reasons”

Is there even a reason to go see ep9? I mean after the recycled 7, the past (or logic, or bad guys) don’t matter 8, why should we care about 9?

First rule, the Doctor always lies.

Pregnancy is a potential consequence of sex. If a man isn’t prepared to accept that his sexual partner may choose an abortion, he shouldn’t have sex.

Another reason for the high death rate is that women are bleeding to death after giving birth. California has reversed that trend by simply requiring the pads the women are laid on to be weighed when changed. Over a certain weight, and intervention for hemorrhage is started. I know it sounds crazy and too simple to be…

They get a lot of rightful criticism because they carry a greater degree of danger to the mother in many cases. Your ***anecdotal*** need for one to ensure your and your babies’ safety does not make c-sections the go-to choice. More than that, it’s too often the choice of doctors who are simply in a hurry, and they’re…

Probably, but at least he’ll have done it all for the nookie.

They won’t. They quietly cheer it on. Right wing social media has been increasing its demonization of Planned Parenthood and abortion providers in general for months. Everyone has permission to be hateful on Facebook. Everyone believes their faith and the First Amendment give them the right to be judge, jury, and…

White Christians must denounce this religious fundamentalist terrorism. 

Wonder if he’ll have to sell his collection of Limp Bizkit memorabilia to pay his legal fees.