Scarier than any horror film, it appears that Michelle Duggar, birther of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, has thrown her official endorsement (what?) for Missouri state Senate behind liver-spotted infant Todd Akin. She previously hit the trail in support of the world's foremost virgin father, Rick Santorum, so it makes…
Women's health expert and Senate candidate Todd Akin has said some pretty impressive dumb shit this election season. But did you know that the Missouri Congressman has been saying stupid crap about women for years now? In 2008, he gave a speech about how dastardly abortion doctors were performing abortions on "women…
Femininity expert and giant elderly fetus Todd Akin is moving his mouth parts and making awful sounds again. This time, rather than sharing his opinions about Rape Science, he's got an opinion about his opponent Senator Claire McCaskill, who he has determined is poised to lose the election because she is less…
How much do you want to bet that Claire McCaskill is crossing all of her crossable phalanges right now? Her Missouri Senate opponent is Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin, and Akin has until the end of the day to legally remove his name from the November ballot. If he doesn't, the best hope the Republican party has to retake…
Not since a barrage of sexual misconduct accusations prompted the creation of Women for Herman Cain has a candidate's woman-centric outreach been more ill-advised. But, here we are, on Day 1 of Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin's WOMEN FOR AKIN initiative, which positions Akin as a nice guy who is friends with plenty of…
Apparently not having learned the lesson her husband, Jon Kyl, and, oh, just about every other asshole in the GOP learned, Lulli Akin, of the "legitimate rape" Akins, suggested that Todd Akin's abandonment by fellow Republicans is, more or less, just like rape.
Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin may be a quivering slime mold with a side part of a human being, and the Republican establishment may have publicly distanced itself from him, but that doesn't mean they don't still kind of want him to win. And now that the media spotlight is shining its…
A new parody of Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" nonsense is making the internet rounds and, well, it's really something. Positioned as a fake pharmaceutical ad — "legitimate rape" is being sold as a method of birth control — the commercial features a mock rape. Watching it made my stomach twist into knots and my head…
Know what's horrible? Rape. Know what's even worse than rape? When Democrats point out that Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin's kooky views aren't that far from the GOP mainstream. Just ask Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, who has finally shown us what happens Congressmen stop being polite and start getting real. The Real World:…
Tom Smith, a Republican Senate candidate from Pennsylvania, could not believe his girl-power feminist ears last Sunday when he heard that Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin said that it was impossible for a woman to get pregnant from rape. Women totally can get pregnant from rape, said the esteemed thought leader,…
Mitt Romney has been careful to distinguish his views as more moderate than his nuttier-than-a-Skippy-commercial running mate Paul Ryan and, even (awkwardly) the rest of the Republican party. Unlike his conservative brethren, the Romney line goes, Mittens believes that rape victims shouldn't be forced to give birth to…
Mittens Romney just arrived in Ohio and rolled out a new stump speech tailored to female voters, no doubt to win over everyone who remains completely appalled by Republican Rep. Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" gaffe (FYI, Romney immediately called his comments "inexcusable," but the fact is that Akin's stance really…
America is a divided nation — ideologically, geographically, economically — but this week, many of us were able to cast aside our differences and unite under a common banner: disdain for Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin. And for good reason — Akin's statements on what rape is and what options should be available to…
Contrary to the wild imaginings of Rep. Todd Akin's fevered brain, women can and do get pregnant as a result of rape, a reality that's horrible enough to think about even without this extra bitter layer: some rapists successfully sue for joint custody of the children they have violently fathered. Though instances of…
What's the one book you think Rep. Todd Akin, freelance improvisational biologist, would most benefit from reading, other than Go the F*ck to Sleep? If you said Our Bodies, Ourselves, plus a whole supplementary reading list of sex ed textbooks, you have exactly the same idea as the official Our Bodies, Ourselves…
Ever since some jerk took blurry naked photos of Prince Harry's royal junk cavorting in Vegas, the internet's been all, "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH." And now Playgirl wants in on the blah-blahs, offering Harry six figures to display his Moste Honorable Penis and Testes of the Realm in the pages of their fine…
In the days after letting it slip that he believes that rape victims shouldn't be allowed to have abortions because if it's a "legitimate rape," the female body has ways to "shut that whole thing down," Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin bragged that even though he's pretty much a human-shaped bag of biohazardous…
The GOP has just agreed that for the next four years, all of the human grown-ups who identify with the party will promote a constitutional amendment that defines life as something that starts at the moment of conception — this means that from the very second an ovum becomes a zygote, that reproductive cell is a full…
In the ongoing effort to out-hyperbole one another in the wake of what Todd Akin described as his simply a minor case of the malapropisms, one conservative Christian group has evidently pulled ahead of all the others by describing Republican backlash against Akin as a "political gang rape" because the best way to…
Even though the intransigent splinter of a politician now known to the general public as Todd Akin has earned the ire of many of his GOP colleagues for suddenly jeopardizing a Missouri Senate race that he seemed poised to win, some brave/foolish Republicans have ventured into the bombed-out mediascape to defend Todd…
