Form to tell your representative to vote down HR. 3, the Republican attempt to redefine rape to exclude Incest and drugging, and their attempt to restrict access to life saving medical care for women. Click the take action button: http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/
* A petition to stop Georgia for requiring a change of language that will likely make it even harder to prosecute rape cases. I'm not happy with the petition language eeither, but it's better than what is being proposed: http://www.change.org/petitions/rape-victims-are-not-accusers
* Petition to save PBS and NPR: http://pol.moveon.org/nprpbs/?id=26105-10705560-sxVC70x&t=1
* There were protests in a lot of Middle Eastern and North African Countries today, including Iran. The police in Yemen are attacking journalists openly and brutally in an attempt to prevent news and images escaping. Iran is preventing professional journalists from covering things, so the news and footage are coming from brave amateurs. Again, it looks like governments are targeting all journalists, not just western ones.
* I'm aware of the Clarance Thomas corruption scandal, but am simply not up to summarizing it.
* I'm still sick, so still reclusive. It's particularly inconvenient in it's symptoms tonight.
* Cat update: I'm not worried about Mache at all. The Butt's still off colour, but not alarmingly so. We are watching him closely just in case. Neither white cat shows any sign of being ill.
* Snerk: http://catalogliving.net/post/3289561222/washed-away
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* Super hero dolls: http://tonnerdoll.com/dcstars.htm
* A fascinating thing on cait sidhe succession in the October Daye books. Mild spoilers for book 3: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/320961.html?style=mine
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