• The Vatican remains confused, but they retracted this video promoting the upcoming conference on “Women’s Cultures: Equality and Difference” (or Plessy For Women, for short).
I wish they’d done a better job publicizing that #LifeofWomen hashtag, because it’s never not hilarious when anti-feminist efforts are surprised to realize women are capable of hijacking such astroturf campaigns. Still, as bad as this video is, it’s better than the conference artwork revealingly chosen by the Vatican Pontifical Council on Culture — a headless naked woman’s torso bound with golden rope. (William Lindsey has a fine collection of responses to that image, seen here on the right.)
• Could this be the Christian Sasquatch movie we’ve all been waiting for? Let’s hope so, because if this flops, it could become that much harder to get funding for the evangelical chupacabra movie I really want to see.
• Doktor Zoom responds to the imaginary science of Matt Walsh’s anti-birth-control rant by giving Walsh all the respect that he and his argument deserve.
• Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is outraged over the history standards in the new educational Common Core. Those standards, Paul says, amount to “anti-American propaganda” and “revisionist history that ignores the faith of our Founders.”
Just one problem with Paul’s critique: Common Core doesn’t include history standards. It’s about math and English.
Paul shows an enormous capacity for being outraged over non-existent grievances. He has a bright future in today’s Republican Party.
• “Lizzie Sheppard: Took a White Supremacist Pastor to Court and Won.”
• Jubilee.
• Oh, Delco. Don’t ever change. “Man Clogs Toilet With Potatoes, Pulls Fire Alarm to Get Help Quicker.”
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