So I was reading Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin's Facebook page. There are basically three types of comments that have been left for Akin since he lost to Claire McCaskill:

1. Right-wing fundie xtians, many of them obvious Dominionists (I saw one reference to Akin working with kids from Generation Joshua), thanking Akin for standing up for "god," " ( Read more... )

Yes, I've seen the Republican Rape Advisory Chart.

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ginasketch, in disgust, embeddded Rick Perry's openly anti-gay campaign ad:

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John Wright of the Dallas Voice was reminded of Brokeback Mountain but, at first, couldn't say why. Then he realized that, in the ad, Perry's wearing a jacket (probably from Carhartt) similar to the one Heath Ledger wore in the movie.


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Via LG&M, Paul Krugman reports:Options Group’s Karp said he met last month over tea at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York with a trader who made $500,000 last year at one of the six largest U.S. banks ( Read more... )

The WaPo gives Tony Perkins of the "Family" "Research" Council a soapbox to blither about "the harms of homosexuality." Commenters are tearing him to shreds.

This is Perkins, btw. Tell me this man isn't going to get caught someday hiring a hunky young man to "lift his luggage" for him.


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