In case you haven’t heard, two people were ejected from the Republican National convention for throwing nuts at a black camerawoman and saying, “This is how we feed animals.” Yes. In 2012. The racist incident is obviously very disturbing on its own merit. But in addition to that, where’s the follow-up reporting? CNN has confirmed it, but no one will say whether the two people [...]
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Jennifer Kesler
In criticizing Todd Akin’s recent remarks, Tom Smith stuck his foot way down the throat of the GOP, and then proceeded to twist. In explaining why he agreed with Akin that there should be no exceptions to an abortion ban, even rape or incest, which clearly includes, like, 11-year-old girls raped by their fathers giving birth to their own siblings because that worked out so [...]
This Fry and Laurie sketch from the early 90s 1989 shows why it’s so important you don’t let people who resent learning and think knowing stuff is bad make decisions about education for your entire country. It might provide a laugh after the sad week we’ve had of finding out the US has congresspeople who keep telling themselves lies about biology so they don’t have [...]
I’ve had a couple of complaints about offensive ads showing up on Hathor in recent months, and wanted to address that topic briefly. First, please note that we have limited control over what ads show up, because due to our limited traffic, we have to work with ad brokers who aren’t that selective. I do exercise what control I have to keep the ads inoffensive, [...]
I have trouble accepting that we could elect to national office someone who doesn’t know how pregnancy works, so I’ve been trying to work out the basis of Todd Akin’s theory to see if it holds any water at all. First, let’s go over how conception occurs. An ovary releases an egg into the fallopian tube. A sperm makes its way into that tube and [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, Shauna has been revamping our commenting system for you. We now have some awesome features I want you to be aware of: Liking This feature is meant to encourage quality comments. You can now “like” a comment. There’s a link in parentheses to the right of the commenter’s name – click it, and your vote will be added to [...]
Warning: this article talks about child molestation. Kayla Harrison is an inspiration. She has won the US its first gold medal in Olympic judo. Because she knew Olympic judo doesn’t typically lead to lots of commercial endorsements and a big sports career, she had planned to return home and train to be a firefighter. That’s also inspiring. But then she won the gold, and suddenly [...]
