Senator Janet Howell, Baddass Bitch of the Day
To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
“We need some gender equity here,” she told HuffPost. “The Virginia senate is about to pass a bill that will require a woman to have totally unnecessary medical procedure at their cost and inconvenience. If we’re going to do that to women, why not do that to men?”
Stupendous.
This is what I wore yesterday for a nice, relaxing Sunday. Because I’m terrible at time management*, my husband took these pictures for me before I ran off to an informal baby shower potluck.
I started making some chocolate chip cookies at 2:00 and Steve asked me when I thought I would leave and I said “2:30.” I was totally dreaming - the cookies need to bake one sheet at a time and took thirty minutes just to bake and making them takes about 15 minutes easy - there are 9 minutes of rest time built in between whisking. They’re delicious and therefore, worth it. So I really left around 3:30.
A fun thing we like to do with Agatha’s ears.
I loved the silliness of this pictures, an apt representation of me in real life.
cardigan: thrifted | shirt: old navy | jeans: urban outfitters | boots: clarks, thrifted | necklace: pavement boutique
This is silly because
1) No one with a basic grasp on the election actually thinks Newt will win the presidency, especially liberals
2) I, a progressive/liberal, am tickled (opposite of annoyed, btw) by folks that think Newt is a worthy candidate. At least two affairs, a moon base by his second term?, thinks it would be a good idea to subpoena judges to explain their decisions (which is what I thought the really long decisions they write up were for…), and so on and so on.
3) The longer the republican primary drags on the more money is spent by Republicans bashing one another and exposing the other candidates’ hypocrisies and weaknesses instead of on Obama.
I wish SP would just fade away, back to Alaska. She has nothing particularly interesting to contribute to any discussion.
I’m a 27 year old social worker who listens to music on her Hello Kitty radio. nbd. (Taken with instagram)
by Joan Walsh, Salon.com
Murray’s book is intended to highlight a values gap. He identifies what he calls the “founding virtues” of America – industriousness, religious practice, honesty and marriage – and finds the new white lower class lacking in all four. Meanwhile, at the very top of society, he says, adherence to those virtues persists, and it’s working very well.
Obviously, I think this is pretty laughable and Walsh repeatedly points out the numerous and ginormous holes in his argument(s). I’d read the book in its entirety but there are too many great books out there to read instead of reading one that would only be a lengthy critical thinking and fallacy-finding exercise.