Illegal Abortion and ‘The Way of the World’

The Right Wing Outrage Industrial Complex’s Complicated Week
By Tina Dupuy on Friday, May 17th, 2013
In the now-infamous “47 Percent” video secretly captured during a Mitt Romney fundraising speech, the GOP hopeful gleefully mentioned Jimmy Carter’s Iran Hostage Crisis moment and admitted, “By the way, if something of that nature presents itself, I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity.” On September 11, 2012, he got his “opportunity.” Our embassy in Benghazi, Libya was overtaken and four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed. Mitt ...
Donald Trump: The Rape Apologist
By Tina Dupuy on Friday, May 10th, 2013
Donald Trump thinks it’s a no-brainer that so many American servicewomen are raped by their fellow soldiers. This week, when the increase in these crimes is the subject of a Senate hearing, Trump tweeted: “26,000 unreported sexual assults (sic) in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?” I normally ignore The Donald as a publicity-hound half-wit celebrity shill. But now that he’s a rape apologist, he ...
More Guns, More Gun Profits, More Gun Deaths
By Tina Dupuy on Friday, May 3rd, 2013
If the Tsarnaev brothers—the duo behind the Boston Marathon bombing—set off two of their pressure cooker bombs every day, in a year’s time they’d amass 1,095 victims (providing they killed the same number of people each day). The total would jump to 1,098 if it happened to be a leap year. There are an average of 10,000 gun homicides every year in the U.S. If you add gun accidents and suicides it’s over 30,000 deaths ...
The Boston Bombers and the Theory of Relative Laziness
By Tina Dupuy on Friday, April 26th, 2013
My working theory—you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works—is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or planning when laziness could explain it. Call it Occam’s Armchair. While perusing the weirder corners of the Internet the other day I stumbled upon the Flat Earth Society’s website. They believe—and claim to have plenty of evidence—that the world ...
Illegal Abortion and ‘The Way of the World’
By Tina Dupuy on Friday, April 19th, 2013
The Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell was one of the few places in the state to provide late-term abortions. From witness accounts the clinic smelled of cat urine. There was a free-roaming, flea-infested feline that reportedly defecated all over the medical facility. The clinic, described in the grand jury report as “a criminal enterprise, motivated by greed,” spread venereal diseases to their patients, reportedly delivered live babies and ...