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reptile dysfunction

Planned Parenthood Goes After McCain On Health Insurance, Birth Control

Have you seen the video of a woman earlier this week asking John McCain why "health insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control"? After silence, some chin-rubbing and arm-crossing, he replied, "I don't know enough about it to give you a informed answer." Today, Planned Parenthood is going after McCain using his own words, and is hoping women voters will take notice. Maybe they should hear this too: Politico reports that three people wearing NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico T-shirts were denied access to John McCain's town hall meeting in Albuquerque yesterday — despite being ticket holders for the event. Yeah, we've got a serious problem. More »

Photoshop Of Horrors A retoucher for Maxim Mexico went a little loco on this model's waist. The thing about it is that it's not just offensive for like obvious objectification reasons (because really, only objects like action figures or Barbies could ever be proportioned like that), but it's also just a completely piss poor job with the "liquify" tool. I took it upon myself to "fix" her waist, using the same liquify filter in Photoshop. (Click image to compare Maxim's version and Jezebel's version of this image.) [Photoshop Disasters]

Michael Travesser, the fire and brimstone cult leader formerly known as Wayne Bent, has been released from jail. Michael was imprisoned on charges of child molestation for lying naked with some not-quite-18-year-old members of his sect. The $55,000 bond was paid for by his son, Jeff Bent. If you'll recall, Michael had sex with Jeff's wife, who is now "spiritually married" to the cult leader. The three minors who were living on the cult's rural New Mexico compound, known as "Strong City," have been removed. [AP via CBS News]

cult classic

New Mexico Cult Leader Jailed For Child Molestation

Meet Wayne Bent, aka Michael Travesser aka the Messiah. The Charles Manson-looking yahoo is the prophet and leader of the Lord Our Righteousness Church, and he was arrested on Tuesday on three counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor at the church's compound in rural New Mexico. The three allegedly molested children were also taken from the ranch. (At left is Bent with his wife, Emma. He is 66. She looks about 20, tops.) The compound is a former ranch near the Arizona border, which Bent and his followers have dubbed Strong City. According to the Associated Press, "Wayne Bent has acknowledged having sex with followers - including his daughter-in-law - and lying naked with virgins. He said the virgins asked for sex, but he refused." More »

leftovers

Strippers Lose Jobs To The Internet • The Simpsons Are Back on Venezuelan TV

Print journalists aren't the only ones losing jobs, strippers feel the burden of the digital age. • Iranian says Barbies are "destructive" and must be stopped. • Incarcerated 400-pound man loses 100 pounds, sues county for underfeeding. • Six conservative women talk about dating whiny liberal men. • Two teenagers are jailed for life for killing a goth woman. • Mexicans try to quell the anti-emo riots by promoting diversity among teens. • Lourdes basically has the coolest mom hand-me-downs to pick from. • National Lampoon launches website to rate prostitutes. • Scientists just realize that periods are awesome, can repair hearts. • American Family Association attack soap on lackluster gay kiss. • An ironically long article on shorthand text speak, lol grwn ups r so lam3! • The Simpsons are back in Venezuela! • Baseball star Roger Clemens had a relationship with Mindy McCready when she was 15 years old (he was 28 and married). • Easy mistake to make: Woman attacks boyfriend, thinking he is a porn actor. • "Chinese eatery specializes in penis." That is all you need to know.

suffrage struggles

In The Year 2008, Some Women Are Still Denied The Right To Vote

Imagine a place where women are not allowed the vote, nor considered citizens. Actually, there's no need to imagine, because such a scenario is an actual reality in indigenous areas like Santa Maria Quiegolani, located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. 27-year-old Eufrosina Cruz (left) tried running for mayor of Santa Maria Quiegolani, only to have the ballots cast in her name torn up by the town elders because of her non-citizen status. Get this: A quarter of women in similar settlements are denied the right to vote, even though a "use and customs" law states that the indigenous villages are allowed to "apply their own normative systems... as long as they obey the general principles of the Constitution and respect the rights of individuals...particularly the dignity and well-being of women." As for that dignity and well-being? Well, when the widowed mother of Martina Cruz Moreno asked the village elders for building materials to improve her dirt-floored shack, she was told to "Go get yourself a husband." More »

jail babes

Baby Girls Add Touch Of Pink, Peace To Mexico's Prison System

"She doesn't know it's a prison. She thinks it's her house." That's Karina Rendon, a 23-year-old woman living in a 144-square-foot prison cell with her toddler daughter and two other mothers and their children at Mexico's Santa Martha Acatitla prison. As the Times reports today, 53 children under the age of 6 live at the prison, where their mothers are incarcerated for crimes ranging from drug dealing (Ms. Rendon), to kidnapping and murder.

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'pro-life' losers

All I Got For Christmas Was This Stupid Abortion Protest

Okay people, it's not puppytime just yet. There's been a series of anti-abortion mishaps out west this month. On December 6 in Albuquerque, abortion provider Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic was destroyed by arsonists, reports the New York Times. This past Tuesday, two other abortion centers in the New Mexico city were seriously ravaged by fires. Police have arrested two 22-year-old men, Chad Altman and Sergio Baca, on suspicion of arson. Outside of Denver, paternalistic protesters are picketing outside the homes of contractors who agreed to work on a new Planned Parenthood building. Even on Christmas morning these jerks planned to show up outside the contractors homes to picket with signs of dead babies. What a truly Christian gesture! More »

clips

Putting The "Ho" In "Old Age Home"


Believe it or not, the frail woman in the clip above only retired seven years ago. Her line of work? Prostitution. Luckily for her there is actually a retirement home for prostitutes in Mexico City. Started by Carmen Munoz, herself a prostitute, the home, which has been open for a year, is partially funded by the government and from private donors. More »

¿que what?

Tummy-Tucks From Mexico: A Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy?

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Guadalajara is the 'in' place to get cosmetic surgery. The North Carolina-based company profiled, Air Lift Inc., packages the procedures — you get a doctor, a bilingual driver and a recovery room in a private home, with meals. Apparently, the only city in Latin America that has has more plastic surgeons per capita than Guadalajara is Rio. "We say that no one is unattractive in Guadalajara," jokes Martha Venegas, a resident. "There are poor people, but no ugly ones." It's all about stretching the dollar. A tummy-tuck in the U.S. is $15,000 — the Guadalajara price is $4,000. The owner of the company swears her tours are not packaged as holidays. "You see some of the companies on the web, and photos of women with margaritas in their hands," she says. "This is serious." More »