Halloween links that have nothing to do with Halloween

A woman posts a video to FB showing her water coming out of the tap yellow. The water company sues for defamation. Suing to shut up critics was something companies did a lot in the 1990s (SLAPP—Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation),so I’m not surprised they’re still trying it.
•A profile of an 86-year-old who works to find money for women who can’t afford an abortion. If that cheers you up too much, here’s a look at a pregnant former drug addict forced into a treatment program despite not using drugs during pregnancy. The fetus got a lawyer. She didn’t (not unusual). And this Oklahoma woman had to spend $3,000 traveling out of state to get an abortion for a fetus afflicted with holoprosencephaly (might be born alive, definitely won’t live out the first year).
•Obama nominates judges to vacant judgeships. Unsurprisingly the GOP cries oppression. Topping that we have a right-wing blogger accusing civil-rights activist John Lewis of being Bull Conner and unleashing police dogs and firehouses on freedom-loving Americans. Because Lewis supports Obamacare and that’s Just Like Slavery.
•The Wall Street Journal explains the problem with the economy is that we don’t have enough males working. If more of them don’t find jobs soon, unemployment will stay high!
•One company is arguing corporations should be able to take defective-product cases to court in secret. Which company? We don’t know. It’s secret.
•Another right-wing white terrorist.
•Here’s a lovely fellow: the head of an Oxford rugby club says that for an upcoming dinner event, club members should bring a woman and a bottle of wine “to be tampered with.” Even if this was some kind of joke it’s not even remotely funny.
•Phil Kline, a rabidly anti-abortion Kansas attorney general, has been suspended from practicing law for three years, due to some of his anti-abortion investigations. Unfortunately a Kansas doctor who provided a required second opinion in some abortion cases has lost hers. One of the cases involved a 10-year-old girl who’d been raped by a family member.
•An overview of the religious-liberty argument for corporations to not cover birth control in their insurance.
•Newest loss-of-privacy news: NSA was tapping private data centers run by Google and Yahoo.
•A Christian blogger points out there’s no Biblical injunction against baking wedding cakes or providing other services to gay couples.