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Things got a little crazier than usual yesterday at Michele Bachmann's campaign HQ in Iowa. A few dozen people associated with Occupy Iowa turned up to protest outside her offices, and, unwilling to face them, Bachmann did the political equivalent of hiding under the bed. More »
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Finally a bit of positive news on the treatment of women protesters in Egypt: today a court issued an order banning those awful virginity tests that were being performed on female detainees after the March 9th protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. More »
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I have never fundamentally disagreed with anyone I like more than Sarina Duvall. More »
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At the outset, a rally asking for less of something and at least partly centered on a television cult of personality didn't seem terribly inspiring. But the people I saw there today actually seemed to take civilized discourse seriously. More »
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Four adults dressed in bee costumes appeared yesterday outside the Grand Hyatt where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being held. They were, oddly enough, there to protest words. More »
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Protesters have been gathering outside Secrets Lingerie Shop in Vacaville, CA. They are filming customers entering the store and holding up signs that say "Smile, You're on YouTube!" Unsurprisingly, it's a bunch of religious nut jobs behind the whole thing, who are planning on posting the footage to YouTube, obviously to embarrass the people who enter the adult shop, which sells lingerie, novelty items, and porno. Protester and youth pastor, Jim White said, "If even only one of the dozens of customers we've deterred from entering is a married person about to do something shady behind their spouse's back, then mission accomplished." Yeah, because people buying panties, vibrators, and porno are soooooo shady. [AVN] More »
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