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This was all I had time to read today and I still have a dozen tabs open!

Evil: Just the headlines turn your stomach:
Brazil girl, alleged rape victim, aborts twins
Catholic Church excommunicates everyone who performed, authorized, or assisted in procuring the procedure
But the stepfather who made his nine-year-old charge pregnant? It's cool. He's a fine Catholic, makin' babies and puttin' women and girls in their place as breeding factories. The Archbishop said that abortion was worse that the stepfather's "deplorable" crime.
Illinois GOP leader assaulted by wife after she finds him with two prostitutes in their children's playroom: Gary Skoein is denying that he had hookers in his children's playroom when his wife came into the room and hit him with a plastic toy guitar, but that's what the police wrote down as the reason for the assault.
Get into a credit union, NOW!: Since 1996 (that's Clinton-era stuff), the FDIC has been unable to secure the insurance premiums it was supposed to have collected from the banks it ensures. Congress believed the FDIC was over-capitalized and refused to grant the FDIC the authority needed to enforce premiums collection.

Naked Jesus Handstands, this country is just going to fall apart.
A better, quieter female condom: Huzzah! Omaha and I were testers for the first generation of female condoms (at the time called Reality, with all the puns on the box that implies: "Keep Reality out of the reach of children," "Reality may tend to move during sex," etc.) and apparently the company that makes them (now boringly called "FC") has come up with an FC2, made of a cheaper but better material. More importantly, the material doesn't sound like you're scrunching a baggie while having sex.
Homosexuality likely cause of Blue Duck extinction: The last three English Blue ducks known to be alive have been put together in a zoo pen in the hopes that the one remaining female would breed with the two males, but zookeepers now say that the two males, named Ben and Jerry, are content to hang out together, parading up and down their pen and whistling to one another as if calling to mate.

I bet their nest is so tastefully decorated. This is absolutely guaranteed to send the right wing into a froth about how if homosexuality were legalized, the human species would die off. (via Stephanie Miller)