Scathing (and funny) post and comments at Jezebel on the DHHS birth control proposal I posted about last night. (Note: Jessica says this proposal would define all birth control as abortion, when as far as I know, it's specifically hormonal birth control.)

How convenient for Republicans to be in favor of states rights…for everything except a woman's right to choose!

-------

I love how discrimination, originally a tool for the poor and the disenfranchised and women and people of colour and you know, basically the underclasses, now gets wielded as a tool to protect conservative interests.

-------

I'm so glad that two cells have more rights than I have. A person's a person no matter how small... unless that person is an ovulating woman. In that case, some animals are more equal than others.

-------

By this logic, even abstinence is an abortion. In fact, any moment you are not actively pregnant, you are therefore, having an abortion.

-------

You are supposed to stay home and care for the baby. If you are single, you are supposed to marry the father so he can bring in the money. If the father doesn't earn enough money, you are supposed to tell him that he needs to choose to make more money.

-------

I'm sick to death of these Bible-banging loonies deciding that my only purpose is to function as a baby cannon. Even more disturbing is the fact that I think this all comes back to the War Industrial Complex - as long as there are plenty of poor, disenfranchised children, there will always be those interested in the volunteer army, and they can continue their overseas shenanigans to their heart's content.

What's more, I resent it - if you don't believe in birth control or abortion - don't get one. Just leave me to live my own damn life. Why is this so fucking hard to do?

-------

And the thing is, like funnyface said, there is NO option under these 'decisions' (for lack of a better word) than for women to be perpetually pregnant or abstinent. Yeah, that's fair.

-------

pretty soon, everyone with a rx for birth control will be on the terrorist watch list. don't want to have babies? can't get on the plane.

-------

Seeing as one in five pregnancies results in miscarriage (often unbeknownst to the woman), it seems GWB's god is the biggest abortionist of all!

-------

Oh Republicans love sex, they just don't want you to love sex.

ETA: More from twistedchick.

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving to redefine hormonal contraception as abortion. More at Feministing.

ETA: Hopefully this commenter is correct.

[The original]

Ahahahahahahaha.

Someone made an animation.

Dear God. I'm going to have to make these sometime.

This Visa commercial gets me even more than the Kerri Strug one:

Dear Republicans,

Please, keep saying that Americans are "whining" about the economy. Keep saying it's "the truth."

-------

I'm amused by how the right is flipping out over Obama's call to have American children learn foreign languages (which I'm pretty sure was something they were already doing).

Via drownedinink, RALEIGH - L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he'd ever had rather than lower a flag to honor former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.

I didn't know this was a word.

I suddenly feel very grateful for my relative health.

This is kind of old, but... Sugar Bush Squirrel wank. I think I remember looking at that site in college. Naturally, as the Bush adminstration has stumbled drunkenly along, it's apparently gotten worse. I like to pretend it's an elaborate parody/performance art, even though I know this woman is dead serious.

Amazing things await you at Bent Objects.

Via girls_with_ink: the Environmental Working Group has put out a study on sunscreens, as profiled in this article.

I won't be using the Neutrogena UltraSheer I'd been using for a while anymore. The Jason and Kiss My Face products with good ratings that I wanted were not available at Whole Foods, but I might get them later; they had Badger, which is in the Top Products list, but I think it's even more expensive than the Burt's Bees I ended up going with.

ETA: ...Or I could just get Neutrogena Sensitive, which made the good list, because the Burt's Bees smells like cooking oil and is getting ochre smudges everywhere. =__=

Happy July, all, and Happy Canada Day.

Retro LUSH is live for North America, per lushcosmetics.

Here's the full list of items on the US site.

Here's the full list of items on the Canadian site.

ETA: The products will be available in stores in NA starting July 5 and 6.

Those of you who frequently drink Mountain Dew, Gatorade, and/or other citrus-flavored soft drinks, be aware.

Where The Hell Is Matt? People dancing together around the world.

I'm really enjoying perusing the archives of Rage Against the Man-chine.

The story of Dmitri the Lover's voicemails is making the rounds here and there this week. He's apparently somewhat famous for this sort of behavior, and is pretty much a real-life version of Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia. Jezebel reveals why he's pretty much a nightmare.