Link-A-Dink

Quote of the day: “If Jeb runs, I'm moving to a country where the dictators come from smarter families.” — Via Stranger at Blah3.

The Pope travels to Spain just to let them know they will burn in the fiery pits of hell for allowing gay marriage. I say: Burn the bigots!

Cops confiscate "Honk if you want Bush out" sign because intersection was becoming too noisy.

The state of Michigan now provides free reproductive health services (including contraception, well-woman exams, and pre/post natal care) to 200,000 low-income women in an effort to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Well done.

The UK government is at least looking into rights for co-habiting couples. The Guardian has an article about it here.

Over at Alternet, Rob Boston has put together a list of The Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right.

Think Progress reports on New Jersey Republican Mayor, Steve Lonegan, who is calling for a boycott of McDonald’s “if the fast-food chain does not take down a Spanish-language billboard advertising iced coffee.”

The New England Journal of Medicine has a doctor's perspective on pharmacists' refusal to dispense emergency contraception, and offers a profile of Nebraska late-term abortion provider Dr. Leroy Carhart.

Apparently, smutvibes.com, (horny pervs) and christianvibes.com, (christians goodies) are two branches of the same company. Freaking genius!

The scientist who coined the terms "gender identity" and "gender role" has died.

It has been found that trafficking victims suffer post-traumatic stress closely with torture victims.

Bringing the Church to the Courtroom. The Alliance Defense Fund, which fancies itself the Christian Right’s answer to the ACLU, is a “socially conservative legal consortium” that takes up battles it views as evidence of the attack on Christianity in America.