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Life, rape, duck vaginas and Todd Akin: A podcast with Jamelle Bouie and Pat Caldwell

Yesterday, Jamelle Bouie and Pat Caldwell of The American Prospect invited me to do a podcast about Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) now-infamous “legitimate rape” comments. Among other things, we discuss how the conservatives like Akin and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) who want to eliminate abortion, limit or eliminate access to…

Party like it’s 12 years ago

If all this Rapture joking has you confused, here's Jamelle Bouie's explanation of what the Rapture is, and who believes in it. It's not too late to organize a party to celebrate when the world does not end tomorrow, though I admit it'll be bittersweet when we realize Sunday morning…

Actually, cooking is hard (and I smell sexism in claiming otherwise)

Jamelle Bouie, who is kicking ass guest-blogging for Matt Y., posted yesterday about a remarkable study done at the University of Washington that showed that obesity was 10 times higher among the customers are a low-end supermarket than the ones at the high end Whole Foods. To put that in…

In the annals of really bad ideas

Jamelle Bouie, blogging at Matt Y’s place, has a post up about how Obama sending the National Guard troops to Arizona’s border is a naked political ploy to look tough that is a) unnecessary and b) won’t even work to get Obama any votes. The notion that there’s some horrible…