the akin defense

senate hopeful and gynecological expert todd akin (r-mo) certainly sounds like a another tea party twit today, but tomorrow, who knows?

because akin sounds like he's been reading the jane's defense weekly for female sexual self-defense — "aeon flux: the herodotus file" (1995):

(story by mark mars and eric singer, art by eric canete and peter chung)

visual of the day

speaker of the house john boehner (r-OH) addressing anti-abortion demonstrators yesterday at the nation's capitol, on the 39th anniversary of roe v. wade, speaking into a microphone that looks like ... wait for it ... a coat-hanger.

the scott roeder defense

ben sargent penned this cartoon in 1977, so it is not a response to scott roeder's murder of doctor george tiller, for which roeder was today found guilty (in 37 minutes!) on all counts.

it does nonetheless capture the message roeder sent dr. tiller and to all those who would give women the choice to terminate their pregnancies.