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05.25.12 - 12:39 PM

For reasons unfathomable to us, the right-wing Daily Caller is giving away a gun a week until Election Day. The gun, a high-capacity 9mm FMK9C1 engraved with the Bill of Rights, is made by a guy who attacks liberals for "promoting communism" and incessantly cites "our American Founders' dream (of) insuring those inalienable rights guaranteed to mankind by God" - especially firearm ownership. Except, actually, not. In a terrifying and instructive piece, The New Yorker's Jill Lepore explains why.

-Abby Zimet
05.25.12 - 12:26 AM

With today's women facing so many choices, it's safe to assume most of the decisions they make will be wrong. Thus, the new Sponsor A Uterus program. Act now, and you get a welcome kit with the uterus' photo, biography and information about "the woman who happens to surround it." By some very funny people.

"I'd like to sponsor a uterus but I'm easily distracted by other things...Can I arrange to have the uterus put down if I lose interest?" - one commenter

-Abby Zimet
05.24.12 - 4:23 PM

Hoping to "amplify previously unheard voices,” YouTube has launched a Human Rights Channel in partnership with WITNESS and Storyful. In announcing the move, YouTube cited its role in Occupy and the Arab Spring, when 100,000 videos were uploaded from Egypt.

05.24.12 - 12:32 PM

In the wake of Arizona's right-wing-nuttery, some creative responses. Another demand for Obama's Hawaii birth certificate spawned a petition - 17,000 names and counting - to prove Mitt Romney is not a unicorn. And after GOP Rep. Trent Franks (Arizona!) introduced an anti-abortion bill for D.C. but refused to allow Eleanor Holmes Norton to speak at its hearing, constituents of D.C.'s new "pretend mayor" came asking him to address other local issues like rats, bike lanes and parking signs.

"There are cockroaches everywhere. I know Mayor Franks is very, very concerned about what's happening in D.C. He wants to fix things."

-Abby Zimet
05.24.12 - 11:07 AM

As Montreal student protests continue, police are cracking down - or in some cases, just cracking - with over 500 arrests, more kettling, and wildly indiscriminate pepper spraying. Cops have sprayed (peaceful) students at a school entrance and (entirely innocent) patrons at an outside bar. And, in an astonishing video, female cop Stéphanie Trudeau, finger twitching, sprays young people not once, but twice. Can you spell s-o-c-i-o-p-a-t-h?

-Abby Zimet
05.23.12 - 11:32 AM

Experimenting With Hate Crimes 101: Garry Trudeau is in fine form as Doonesbury takes on Mitt Romney's youthful "prank" of assaulting a gay teenager.

"Look, bullies are people too, my friend."

-Abby Zimet
05.23.12 - 10:39 AM

Meet Charles Worley, a so-called "pastor" in North Carolina who recently, eloquently railed against Obama's support of same-sex marriage - "I ain’t gonna vote for a baby killer and a homosexual lover!" - because "The bible's agin' it, God's agin' it, I'm agin' it." His proposed final solution: Put all the "lesbians and queers" inside a "great, big, large fence," and wait for them to die. We have been here before; attention must be paid. Info on a march, suggested response, and contacting the good reverend.

-Abby Zimet

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