Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:43:29 pm
It's been a little while since we last visited the Internet Center for Advanced Studies of Baby Animal Cuteness, Zooborns, so I think it's time for a couple of photos of the first-ever rare Pallas's Cats born via artificial insemination, at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden: First Ever Birth ...

Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:52:53 pm
Here's a near-perfect version of one of my very favorite songs by Todd Rundgren, with Daryl Hall singing counterpoint and a terrific band: "Sweet," from Todd's criminally overlooked album Liars. I've been living with a lie for so long now, baby I gotta set my soul free, I can't take it ...

Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:33:30 pm
Republican Colorado Rep. Doug Lamborn went on the Caplis and Silverman radio show last Friday, and called President Obama a tar baby. LAMBORN: Even if some people say 'well, the Republicans should have done this, or should have done that,' they will hold the President responsible. Now, I don't even ...

Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:48:09 pm
Some say that you're sure to find True love and peace of mind At the end of a rainbow There's no sign in the sky to follow 'Cause that's the way love goes Baby, that's the way love goes

Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:21:55 pm
Iowa's radical religious right group "The Family Leader" is now backing away from their crazed slavery language, in the pledge signed by Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. They apparently have a dim realization that they might have crossed a line that shouldn't be crossed. But this is a political calculation, not ...

Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:02:10 am
Here's the Iowa Family Leader "Marriage Vow" signed yesterday by Michele Bachmann, and I recommend that everyone read this -- to see just how insane these people are. The very first bullet point on the first page gives you an idea: Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet ...

Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:52:35 am
Another front opens up in the Republican Party's total war on women's rights, as Kansas's religious fundamentalist Governor Sam Brownback appoints a lawyer for one of the nation's most hateful and extreme anti-abortion groups, Operation Rescue, to the state health board that oversees abortion providers: Brownback Taps Lawyer for Anti-Abortion ...

Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:24:36 pm
I don't even know what to say about this sickening story: Idaho Woman Charged For Unlawful Abortion, Turned In By Anti-Choice Advocate. Unable to afford the doctors visits and medical bills associated with an actual medical abortion, Jennie L. McCormack of Idaho instead had her sister purchase drugs online to ...

Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:15:48 pm
Blame Zooborns for the following overdose of cuteness.

Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:16:47 pm
Adobe - how does it work?You knew Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller wasn't going to give up that easily, didn't you? Read it here first! Atlas EXCLUSIVE! LAYERING: OBAMA'S NEW COLB RAISES MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ANSWERS!!!!! - Atlas Shrugs Today, Obama released another copy of his COLB (certification of live birth) ...

Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:03:32 pm
Gail Collins makes an important point about the right wing vendetta against Planned Parenthood, in her New York Times op-ed column: The War Behind the Abortion War. For eons now, people have been wondering why the two sides can’t just join hands and agree to work together to reduce the ...

Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:32:02 pm
Performing on the German TV show Rockpalast, the great Joe Bonamassa tears the roof off the sucker with a classic B.B. King blues tune, "You Upset Me Baby." This is also on the album Blues Deluxe.

Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:33:58 pm
Apex predators have the cutest babies. (Via Zooborns, of course.)

Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:23:44 pm
From Zooborns, the Houston Zoo's latest addition is a one-month old orangutan.

Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:33:28 pm
Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli West Bank settlement of Itamar late Friday night, and viciously stabbed to death a family of five in their beds -- including a three-month old baby. In response to this monstrous attack, Israel today approved the construction of hundreds of new housing units in several West ...

Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:10:20 pm
Witness the inhumanity of the right wing anti-choice movement: Abortion Law: Mother Denied Abortion, Then Had To Watch Baby Die. Nebraska’s new abortion law forced Danielle Deaver to live through ten excruciating days, waiting to give birth to a baby that she and her doctors knew would die minutes later, ...

Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:11:49 pm
Here's an open thread, with hilarious video courtesy of Boing Boing. This baby has a monkey on her back.

Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:23:02 am
It was bad enough when they tried to redefine rape, and worse when they tried to let pregnant women die rather than have abortions, but now the Republican Party in South Dakota is actually trying to pass a law that would legalize killing abortion providers. A law under consideration in ...

Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:51:43 pm

Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:12:56 am
Today's jaw-dropping expression of support for a brutal, murderous despot comes from former Republican Congressman Bob Barr, who's in Haiti sucking up to "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Barr "will be representing" Duvalier "in bringing his message of hope to the world," the former Republican congressman's website says. "I also am reminded of ...

Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:49:52 am
One of the weirdest stories from Haiti last week was the return of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. The corrupt and brutal despot, who fled to France following a popular revolt 25 years ago, waltzed back into Haiti expecting a hero's welcome. But his crimes haven't been forgotten, and today, in a ...

Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:24:05 pm
The New York Times has some details from the federal complaint filed against Jared Lee Loughner, showing clear evidence of premeditation. In a search of Mr. Loughner's home, authorities found a note in a safe with a handwritten note saying, "I planned ahead," "My assassination," and "Giffords," as well as ...

Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:47:17 am
Los Angeles Times writer Michael Memoli has more on Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie's announced intention to debunk the Birthers: Reporting from Honolulu — Neil Abercrombie knew Barack Obama's parents when the future president was born here in 1961, and he has been aggravated by the so-called birther movement, which alleges ...

Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:46:04 pm
Today I discovered a link to the Republican National Coalition for Life PAC, where they rate GOP candidates on their anti-abortion purity, and my jaw is on the floor at how many of these candidates support the cruelest and most extreme anti-abortion positions -- forcing a woman to give birth ...

Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:03:26 pm
John Avlon has a piece on the growing acceptance in the GOP of the cruelest and most extreme positions on abortion: The Palin abortion standard makes GOP inroads. Call it the Palin Standard, the new normal creeping into Republican abortion politics—opposition even in cases of rape and incest. When Sarah Palin ...