Speaking of turkeys, the ROCK blogger’s at it again. Debunking of this post is here. The ROCK blogger followed up the first Oprah rant here. Since we at PAPER tend to be a little hedonistic, we’ve come up with a drinking game for reading ROCK blog posts—or anything ROCK produces!
ROCK Drinking Game Rules
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Late in the day, the terrible Stupak-Pitts Amendment was added to the House’s healthcare bill. The amendment, supposedly in an effort to keep federal funds from going to pay for abortions [already covered by the Hyde Amendment and policy PAPER disagrees with anyway], essentially prevents insurance from covering abortions and participating in the new government [...]
More on the sex offender ruling. This is an ongoing story—let’s continue to hope for policy that differentiates between violent offenders, pedophiles, and people who made stupid mistakes.
Utterly awful: supporters of Scott Roeder, the murderer of abortion provider Dr. Tiller, tried to raise money with eBay auctions. Link includes pictures of Roeder’s drawings, which are [...]
First off: Even TEXAS is admitting abstinence only sex ed doesn’t work, yet a clatch of those wacky Republicans just restored $50 million to fund abstinence only sex ed. Sigh.
More Republican wackiness: the conservative women calendar. Also this week, old school conservative lady Phyllis Schafly reminded us that feminism is “the most dangerous, destructive force [...]
The big news, per ROCK’s newsletter:
Town of Clarksville vs. Josh Janzten (Theatair X) will be heard by Washington County Circuit Court Judge Robert Bennett on Tuesday, Oct. 20th, at 1:30 p.m. This hearing will address Theatair X’s motion to dismiss the Oct. 3, 2008 citation issued for being open for 24 hours and the additional [...]