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Phyliss Schaffly explains that increasing the wage gap between men and women can be a good thing, as more women will be able to find a husband who earns more than they do. As Echidne notes at the link, Schaffly has built an activist career out of telling women their careers are not important.
•Yes, what we did to prisoners under the Bush administration was torture. And we should call it by that name, because “harsh interrogation” just makes it easier for our leaders to excuse it.
•Tax-prep companies such as Turbotax are pushing against the idea of the IRS figuring out people’s taxes—and using religious and business groups as a front.
•Comcast’s proposed Time-Warner merger could lead to everyone enduring data caps on Internet use. Even without data caps, the industry has ways to squeeze content providers (and thereby consumers).
•Fear of witches can turn into child abuse.
•More on our government’s willingness to use social media as propaganda tools.
•A learning disabled teen catches his bullies on iPad. The result? The school punishes him for “wiretapping.”
•As you may have heard, a rancher who refuses to pay his federal-land grazing fees to the government is now claiming persecution. And the government has gotten out of hand, tasering his son for objecting (as Digby points out, there’s nothing political in that: taser abuse has been a problem for years). As LGM notes, all that said, the guy was clearly in the wrong, a welfare queen who wants to suck off the government teat. But rightbloggers are suddenly fine with that.
•A conservative pastor abuses a teenager, then (according to a lawsuit) warns her that if she goes public, she’ll be known as “damaged goods.”
•Forget malls. Restaurants and fast-food joints are the new teen hangouts.
•Griswold vs. Connecticut was a landmark case that established the right to privacy and the right to use birth control (for married couples—the unmarried came later). A blogger looks at what a game-changer that was, and what a blow to the religious right.
•The religious right also hated Dungeons and Dragons. But they lost that one. Slacktivist argues that D&D did indeed pose a threat to fundamentalist beliefs because “Fundamentalist ideology is a fragile thing, after all, so almost anything other than itself is correctly viewed as a subversive threat.”
•A new study suggests obese fathers make it more likely children will be autistic. Echidne looks at how tentative and carefully the media report that news, in contrast to when female obesity was the topic.