So last night at the Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders made this joke: I get the joke. What’s more, I’m not even opposed to jokes about mental health disorder (you’d be hard-pressed to find somebody who finds jokes about anorexia funnier than I, a recovering anorexic). That being said, it feels like Bernie, even in jest, is ascribing the worst qualities of the Republican candidates (and they are legion) to mental illness. In this context it…kinda just made me frown. The... Read more
Oklahoma State Senator Joe Silk has introduced a bill that would make performing abortion, a legal procedure, punishable as first-degree murder: In a move that is unprecedented nationwide, an Oklahoma Senator has introduced a bill that would criminalize abortion as first-degree murder. Sen. Joe Silk, R-Broken Bow, recently introduced S.B. 1118 which adds killing an unborn child to existing murder statutes. “No person shall perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion after conception,” it reads. “A person... Read more
The SCOTUS elected to take up the case of a separated lesbian couple (who were never married). The case involved three children they had while a couple before a bitter break up, after which the biological mother sought to deny her ex-partner visitation rights on the grounds that same-sex adoption was not legal in Alabama: Before their breakup, one partner bore three children; the other formally adopted them in Georgia. The Alabama residents went to Georgia because they had been... Read more
Three days ago I wrote a post about a radio interview in which Michael Shermer was introduced as the Trump supporters and seemed to live up to the intro. Other bloggers, like Hemant Mehta, wrote about this as well. Hemant, who has the means to contact Shermer, pinged him about it. Shermer wrote him back, saying that he is not yet endorsing anybody: My publicist had earlier booked me on that same show on KCRW to talk about social and... Read more
At last night’s debate a woman was permitted to ask Bernie if he thought god is relevant: First, of all the possible questions that I’m sure were submitted, why are we hearing this one? What does this have to do with somebody’s competence to lead the country at all? Second, no, god’s not relevant. Belief in god is relevant because people perform actions, often ridiculous actions, based on what they believe. But god (and I think it’s clear this woman... Read more
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Laaaaaaaaawl “Mr. President, step away from the prompter & do your job.” – Palin At CPAC 2015. Note the prompter. And no job. pic.twitter.com/P2e2sJefbg — John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) March 5, 2016 Read more
I never doubted for a second, but she may have been stressing a little bit. But this following year Michaelyn will be attending KU Med! Leave congratulations in the comments. Read more
Remember that Texas abortion case, where the state of Texas is lying their asses off to the Supreme Court to try and hinder women’s access to abortion? Well yesterday the SCOTUS provided a hint that the three women Justices have Kennedy on board and are about to send Texas packing. Louisiana had a similar law that was blocked at the federal level before being overturned on appeal. That case was before the SCOTUS yesterday and the ruling came down against... Read more
This morning the Alabama Supreme Court dismissed all petitions asking the Court to say that Obergefell doesn’t count in Alabama. This means that same-sex marriage remains the law of the land in Alabama, but now everybody (still) must acknowledge it: The Alabama Supreme Court this morning dismissed petitions by the Alabama Policy Institute, the Alabama Citizens Action Program and Elmore County’s probate judge that had sought a landmark ruling declaring the state’s prohibition on gay marriage still stands in defiance... Read more
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