Potential Side Effects

secotm:

Wow. Is Chuck Asay really trying to contrast free birth control with domestic violence? Because that’s what comes to mind when I look at the first panel. Women who have been beaten or threatened and they need somewhere private to hide.
Why is Asay bringing safe houses into this conversation? What the fuck is wrong with him? It’s been ridiculous enough to see conservatives get up in arms about Democrats et al wanting to provide free birth control, but at least there was something resembling logic as it’s usually been on the grounds that they think it somehow violates religious liberty or will encourage teenagers to go out and have sex (as if teens need encouragement to have sex).
But this? What the fuck is Asay thinking? Why… Where…. What is going through his mind that he sees the issue of birth control and his response is ‘Women who have been beaten by their spouses”?

Wow. Is Chuck Asay really trying to contrast free birth control with domestic violence? Because that’s what comes to mind when I look at the first panel. Women who have been beaten or threatened and they need somewhere private to hide.

Why is Asay bringing safe houses into this conversation? What the fuck is wrong with him? It’s been ridiculous enough to see conservatives get up in arms about Democrats et al wanting to provide free birth control, but at least there was something resembling logic as it’s usually been on the grounds that they think it somehow violates religious liberty or will encourage teenagers to go out and have sex (as if teens need encouragement to have sex).

But this? What the fuck is Asay thinking? Why… Where…. What is going through his mind that he sees the issue of birth control and his response is ‘Women who have been beaten by their spouses”?

itswallie:

redmiel:

duckie22quack:

I don’t understand why people would hurt these cute little guys. OMG *huggles them*

WHY DO SEALS LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE SAD LITTLE EYEBROWS
SO ADORABLE

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

… but, but … their fur makes such awesome coats!

think-progress:

JCPenney is featuring a same-sex couple in its Fathers’ Day ad, following One Million Moms’ failed boycott of the store for bringing on Ellen DeGeneres.

itswalky:

I wonder if that’s near the “HELL IS REAL” sign south of Columbus on 71.

secotm:

Please turn your attention to this post from last week, featuring a cartoon that made the same point as this one.

If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.

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—	John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born 95 years ago today. (via think-progress)

If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.

“

—	John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born 95 years ago today. (via think-progress)

wtfpoliticalcartoons:

secotm:

Except Obama here is right. Federal spending is at its slowest pace in decades. Not since Eisenhower has it been slower.

Thanks, Ed, for getting the word out.

I’m honestly curious about the thought process that went into this comic. “Here’s a claim, and facts to back it up. it flies in the face of our stereotype about the Democrats. So let’s call it a lie”