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This week at OK4RJ, Jen broke down just who is going to be disproportionately affected by ID requirements for over-the-counter emergency contraception. Here’s a hint: It’s not privileged teenagers who forgot their learners’ permit at home. Mallory turned her grief at the cancellation of Bomb Girls into brilliant commentary on the experience [...]
I have driven probably 10,000 miles on I-35 in my lifetime and it’s inspired a lot of my blog posts. A lot of people find the long stretches of highway in red states across flat prairie really boring, but I confront my own fears nowhere better. Lately when driving I’ve just felt an intense pride [...]
I’m not sure why I did it to myself, but I watched every night of the RNC. I tried to stay away, but then I’d see someone on my Twitter say that Mary Fallin upped her twang to Reba standards or that Jeb Bush was speaking coherently. I’m weak for [...]
On Sunday, the Texas Tribune reported that a growing number of people in that state seeking abortions are looking to Mexico for chemical abortifacients in the form of a potent medication – not prescribed on its own in the U.S. to terminate pregnancies – called misoprostol. According to the Tribune article, the [...]
Ohh haaayyy. While Mallory was cuttin up about bowl cuts I took my senior young kid vacay in the NW. I ate lots’o sea boogers, got a little lost, drank something called HelliCorn, enjoyed super cool weather, and snarled at apathetic Portlanders who made fun of my accent. Basically like any [...]
Tuesday afternoon, Democratic Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis’ Fort Worth office was firebombed with six Molotov cocktails. Sen. Davis is openly pro-choice and is a vocal supporter of Planned Parenthood. A homeless man, Cedric Steele, was arrested later last night in connection to the firebombing. Thankfully no one was [...]
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