Welcome to the first and only entry in our limited series ‘Memba When, in which we blog about the intersection of cute dog stories and car stories that Jalopnik wrote about days prior.

Dear God, it's like they're actively trying to get us to insult them: yet another Republican politician has argued against allowing rape survivors to get abortions, because while rape is "obviously awful," the children it can potentially produce are beautiful. Yep. Nothing lovelier than a forced pregnancy.

America's youngest state legislator is now 18-year-old West Virginian Saira Blair. She's NRA-endorsed, fiscally conservative and, of course, pro-life. Her dad is a state senator.

Saira Blair, a West Virginia resident who will graduate high school later this month, just defeated a sitting state delegate in her district's primary election. This is a very notable accomplishment for any teen, but it is especially notable for a second-semester senior (a subset of the student population whose daily…

West Virginia (unfairly most of the time) seems to be the go-to backwoods state in America. Incest, murderous hillbillies, haunted coal-mining towns straddling the cave mouth to Hell, illiteracy, and prescription drug abuse are often mentioned in connection with West Virginia, as if the Appalachian squiggle-blob…

Katelyn Campbell, the high school student who notified the media about Pam Stenzel's insane abstinence-only presentation last week, is apparently being threatened by her principal. She says that George Aulenbacher, the principal at George Washington High School in West Virginia, said he'd call Wellesley College —…

Meet Caiden Cowger: He's a 14-year-old radio host who lives in West Virginia and is a rising star in the conservative movement. More importantly, he's apparently very eager for us to know that President Obama is the one to blame for everyone being gay. Interesting theory, young chap! With the kind of cocky confidence…

Melissa Lee Williams of West Virginia is facing assault and weapons charges after she showed up at her estranged husband's door with a knife and demanded of him and another man: "Eat my pussy."

At a rally in West Virginia yesterday, an elderly woman collapsed; before officials had even picked her up off the ground, Clinton declared, "She'll be fine!" Which, thankfully, she was—no doubt because of Bubba's joke-slinging charms.

Julia Bonds, who says, "I'm not a latte sipper, I'm a hillbilly, man," is working within coal communities to stop strip mining and develop economic alternatives to the coal industry. More fascinating details, here: [Newsweek]

With voter registration at an all-time high, turnout expected to be close to an all-time high and more than a few absent absentee ballots worrying their supposed owners, many people are concerned that that other one might yet be able to squeak out a win — due in no small part to widespread suppression efforts, voter…

I'm sick of fine presidents and good presidents and mediocre presidents. I'm sick of Rutherford B. Hayes and James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore. We got Barack Obama! Barack Obama, for crying out loud!

A white woman named Karen Burton was indicted Tuesday on charges of committing a hate crime, kidnapping and malicious wounding. Burton and five others were arrested in West Virginia last September after a black woman named Megan Williams was rescued from a trailer where she was sexually assaulted, stabbed and forced…

West Virginia does things just a little differently than the rest of us. For instance, they've got 30 pledged delegates, but, oh no, they don't just allow the Republican voters of West Virginia elect them. They hold a convention with the big party people, and then they let those conventioneers vote to whom 18 of the…