Anna Merlan's saved articles

Can everyone please tell their scariest / creepiest Ouija board stories!? I don't have any good ones but it seems like there's always someone in any given group of people who has been forever scarred by some experience... and I like to hear them and be scarred by proxy!! Read more

Nah, sorry, not buying it. The guy outside of Planned Parenthood (with a degree in divinity and a homemade sign thoughtfully positing the state of our world if Mary had aborted Jesus) said that it's scientifically proven that abortion causes breast cancer, depression, infertility, dengue fever, and restless leg… Read more

LOL: You used "U.S. lawmakers" and "actual science" in the same sentence. Read more

I think we should replace the bald eagle as our national bird with an avocado with paper wings stuck to it. Read more

"I am very worried that administration concern for external crime is replacing concern for internal crime. The greater problem is date rape, or assaults by other students, which the planned system would do nothing to stop." Read more

Hating avocado is not weird, it's sensible. Read more

ted cruz is a total enigma. texas monthly did a really good profile on him back in february and i highly recommend it. he's such a nut that it's fascinating. Read more

this motherfucker Read more

"Hey Gypsy, what's your favorite Slayer song?"

Yeah, they rescued it. But they freebased it right after those photos were taken. Read more

My former roommate had one at around 5 months into the pregnancy, but it was the elephant in the room: we all knew but I wasn't really supposed to know, so I just didn't ask questions. She failed out of college that semester and was pregnant by her recently immigrated Haitian boyfriend (her parents were really racist… Read more

Isn't late term abortion (later than 20 weeks) really uncommon? Or have I been misled? Read more

"We can't actually PASS abortion legislation because then we would lose that as a means of getting fundamentalists to the polls"

"I'VE GOT IT! We pass it when we KNOW it will get vetoed or fillabustered. That way we KNOW it won't pass but we still get credit for trying!"

I clicked the link to tumblr and found this jewel. This had to be posted:

Cats will prey on over 300 different species. And they will kill for fun, not just food. Read more

People, I adopted a three-footed baby kitty this weekend. His name is Toby.

you're not, and you shouldn't. this is too serious. Read more

On the topic of devil horns, I just had a sonogram last week and my baby totally threw up the devil horns. My husband and I were cracking up and the technician actually caught a pic of it. If I had it on me, I'd post it. But still... I mean.... how metal is my baby? lol Read more