Link-A-Dink

On "The Morning Buzz" this morning, it was reported that a judge threw out the case of a man accused of raping a little girl because the prosecutor was 45 minutes late.
So, we punish victims because we hold grudges against others?
To the defense: just make sure prosecutors are late so your raping clients can receive a get-out-of-jail-for-free card, courtesy of incompetent judges.
The prosecutor was late because he was planning an appeal request based on the fact that he asked the judge to recuse herself and she declined.

In the newest edition of the Advocate Mann Coulter was asked what she would do if one of her children were gay. Her response? "I'd say...did I ever tell you you're adopted?" Gasbag.

Pentagon memo: Homosexuality a defect:
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.
The document outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members with physical disabilities, and in a section on defects lists homosexuality alongside mental retardation and personality disorders.
Anyone can just declare something a disorder, regardless of whether it actually is?
Fine, I declare Scientology a disorder.
I declare The Reich a disorder.
I declare King Geaorge is disorder.

The New Yorker has An interesting analysis of the South Dakota abortion ban and its larger impacts. Included at the end is a wonderful breakdown of how The Reich Party uses abortion as a tool, "In the late nineteen-seventies, there was a concerted effort to use abortion as an organizing tool to bring Christian evangelicals into the political fold." Enter: The United States Congress.

Someone sent me this article exhorting women to marry geeks and it’s just soo absurd and sexist I'm passing on commenting and leaving it to you.

From womensenews:
Harvard announced it will spend $7.5 million to subsidize and improve child care services on campus as well as to provide grants to female faculty and staff members, the Boston Globe reported June 13. Lawrence Summers stepped down in February as university president after creating a storm of controversy by suggesting publicly that women were innately inferior to men in science and math abilities. Women hold 8 percent of Harvard's tenured faculty positions in the natural sciences. The university has previously pledged to spend more than $50 million to recruit and retain women and minorities.

A federal jury found that the Suffolk County Police Department in New York state discriminated against pregnant officers by denying them limited-duty and non-patrol positions and preventing them from fully working during their pregnancies. In a June 14 announcement, the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented six plaintiffs in the case, said the decision vindicated the rights of women working in nontraditional jobs.

A June 15 report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee identifies the U.S. workplace as "one of the least supportive employment environments for women of any developed nation," according to a coalition of women's groups, including NOW, Legal Momentum and the National Council of Women's Organizations. In addition to employment discrimination, the report documents the effects of gender-based discrimination in the U.S. prison system, inadequate anti-violence laws, reproductive rights, health care and immigration.

Women's rights activists and other civil rights groups protested a proposed $4 million cut to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an organization already hobbled by a shrinking staff and budget, the Washington Post reported June 14. The agency faces a backlog of charges of employment discrimination that is expected to grow to more than 47,000 unheard cases in the next fiscal year.