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• Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

  Today we go from the important to the utterly unimportant. Supreme Court. Guantanamo Bay. Somebody's butt in a rapper's face. G'wan. Click through. You know you wanna. Read More... Posted Jun 02 2009, 09:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, entertainment, news, politics, dick cheney, president bush, video, Eminem, Supreme Court, controversy, rush limbaugh, MTV, mitt romney, congress, Brett Singer, senate, george w. bush, morning news, britain's got talent, susan boyle, Sonia Sotomayor, Republican Conservative Hive Mind, GOP Hive Mind, eminem walks out of the mtv movie awards, judges, bruno, Newt Gingrich, bruno sticks his butt in eminem's face, kathy griffin

• Morning News - Susan Boyle Comes in Second

  Susan Boyle! The Supreme Court! 3D movies are good but too freakin' expensive! All this and more in... Morning News! Read More... Posted Jun 01 2009, 09:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: entertainment, Movies, disney, politics, film, Supreme Court, pixar, republicans, Democrats, Brett Singer, opinion, morning news, star trek, britain's got talent, susan boyle, disney pixar, up, disney pixar's up, susan boyle loses to dance troupe diversity, Sonia Sotomayor

• Morning News - Talk Show Host Waterboarded

  A talk show host gets waterboarded, but it's not Sean Hannity! Or Keith Olbermann! Plus Colin Powell denies that he left the Republican party despite the fact that they don't seem to want him, and Ben Stiller has another enormous monstrous hit movie. What is it with that guy? Read it all in... Morning! News! (Image Source) Read More... Posted May 25 2009, 09:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, Movies, news, politics, dick cheney, video, Supreme Court, American Idol, barack obama, republicans, Democrats, Brett Singer, ben stiller, morning news, Colin Powell, susan boyle, obama will make his supreme court choice this week, queen wants adam lambert to replace freddie mercury, night at the museum 2, susan boyle wins britain's got talent, night at the museum battle for the smithsonian, night at the museum, terminator salvation, adam lambert

• Supreme Court Says Keep Cursing Off Daytime TV

  If you can't keep your sailor mouth clean, have heart. You can continue plopping your kids in front of the TV during the day for some curse-free entertainment . . . for now anyway. The U.S. Supreme Court voted five to four to uphold the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) hold over "foul language" on television between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The issue came up in regards to "fleeting expletives," the one-off f-bomb dropped on a live show (rather than cussing worked into a scripted program). So is this good for parents and kids? Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 02:00 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: television, tv, Supreme Court, Cursing, Jeanne Sager, Potty mouth, curse words, FCC

• Is It Ever Okay to Strip Search a Middle Schooler?

  The United States Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in the case of Savana Redding, who was strip-searched by school officials when she was a 13-year-old middle school student. The 2003 incident in question involved a vice principal who believed that Redding was holding prescription-strength ibuprofen; she wasn't, and when a nurse and aide had her disrobe, then pull her bra and panties out from her body so they could look there, Redding says, she felt she'd been stripped of her dignity. Read More... Posted Apr 22 2009, 02:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Supreme Court, ibuprofen, stephen breyer, ruth bader ginsburg, strip search, antonin scalia, savana redding

• Can We Talk About the Word "Panties"?

  Maybe I'm just lexically sensitive, but I have always hated the word "panties." It's an awful word, the way it sounds, both when enunciated ("pan-tees") and also when not ("pannies").  My sister and I would writhe on the floor when our mother used the word, which was often: "Girls, put on your panties!" "fold your panties" "let's go buy new panties" ... "panties, panties, panties!" As I got older and the context broadened to include fancy women's underthings, I still never found the word cute, sexy or the least bit dignified. Wanna get laid? Don't tell me to take off my panties. I've met more challenges with the word since becoming the mother of two girls myself. Everyone around us uses ''panties": doctors, preschool teachers, Hanes, grandmothers (give it a rest, Mom!). Me? I stick with "undies" and "underwear," boring but comfortable.   Read More... Posted Apr 22 2009, 09:28 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: Supreme Court, NPR, panties, nina totenberg, ruth bader ginsburg, awful words

• Fired For Pumping Case Reaches Higher Court

  A woman who worked for Totes/Isotoner Corp. was fired for taking too many bathroom breaks. No, she wasn't snorting coke in there. She was pumping breast milk. After losing in court in 2008, and again on an appeal, LaNisa Allen is appealing to a higher authority -- the Ohio Supreme Court. Read More... Posted Mar 11 2009, 09:30 AM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, law, breastfeeding, work, breast pump, breast milk, Supreme Court, ohio, breast feeding, lawyers, pumping, breastmilk, court, legal, Brett Singer, pumping at work, breastpump, fired, fired for pumping at work, pump

• North Dakota Passes Law Establishing "Personhood" at Conception

  In the latest salvo against abortion rights, North Dakota's house of representatives this week passed a law defining a fertilized egg as having all the rights of a human being. The bil, which passed with a 51-41 vote, will now move to the state's senate for its consideration. If it is approved, legal challenges are expected that could end up in the United States Supreme Court -- a body that is now widely seen as having a five-justice majority willing to restrict abortion rights first enumerated in the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling. Read More... Posted Feb 20 2009, 12:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 46 comment(s) Filed under: children, child, immigrants, birth control, North Dakota, abortion, Supreme Court, Roe V. Wade, Pro-choice, gay marriage, fetus, religious right, immigration, christian, personhood, embroyo, personhood movement, christians, blastocyst, christian conservatives

• Breaking News: CA Supreme Court Will Hear Prop. 8 Challenges

  In case your post-election elation is starting to wear off, here's some good news in the fight for constitutional protections.  The California Supreme Court agreed today to hear the case against Proposition 8 brought by the ACLU, the City of San Francisco, and gay rights organizations. This is the same court that unwittingly brought about the Prop. 8 firestorm after they ruled that banning gay marriage violates both the fundamental right to marry and the equal protection clause of the California Constitution. Read More... Posted Nov 20 2008, 03:40 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: ACLU, California, gay, same-sex marriage, Supreme Court, equal rights, gay marriage, constitution, illegal, legal, queer, review, Lambda Legal, Proposition 8, prop 8, right to marry, american civil liberties union, case, ruled, prop. 8 challenge, legal challenge, LGBTQ, constitutionality, hear

• Prop. 8 Protests Spawn Hope and Great Photos

  Yesterday, thousands gathered in 300 cities across the United States to protest the passage of Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California. The protests were a poignant and powerful reminder that no civil right is easily won. Equality for gay families will be an uphill battle--all of the 30 states that have voted on gay marriage have banned it--but the impressive organization and high turnout of yesterday's peaceful protests demonstrate that the gay rights movement has the momentum to fight for as long as it takes. Jezebel has posted a slideshow of photos of the protests submitted by readers across the country. Read More... Posted Nov 16 2008, 04:22 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, California, Supreme Court, gay marriage, cities, U.S., protests, vote, election, country, ban, civil rights, gay families, gay rights, Proposition 8, prop. 8, million, movement, march, overturn

• Immigrant Gay Folks Face New Challenges

  Following the recent Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage, it's clear that some things are gonna change around here. (For starters, you may want to book that popular wedding venue extra early.) But Sandip Roy points out that for some immigrant gay people, a whole new situation has opened up. In some cultures, being... Read More... Posted Jun 02 2008, 05:33 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: kids, California, Salon, Supreme Court, gay marriage, immigrant, wedding, single, mate

• One More Reason To Be Jealous of California

  I love my state. And really, aside from a few righteous a-holes in Orange County and the fact that both Madeline and Mike live here, what's not to love? We Californians enjoy awesome weather almost year-round; we are pretty dang diverse in many ways; the food in our urban centers rocks the party; and we have some of the most gorgeous scenery ever. Sometimes people from other places talk about us like we are the biggest fruit loops on the planet, and that's just fine by us, because it's just too pretty and laid-back here for us to really care. Oh, and now we have yet another thing going for us. See, I don't know if you heard, but our state has had some kerfuffles over gay marriage lately, and the latest news, following the Supreme Court ruling, is that...   Read More... Posted May 30 2008, 04:02 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: marriage, California, gay, Supreme Court, support, poll, wedding, queer, legalize

• 12-Year-Old Killer Won't Get His Day In (Supreme) Court

  At what age can we be expected to take full responsibility for our own actions?  I mean, 12-year-olds aren't allowed to drink, to drive, to vote, to drop out of school or to sign a contract, and I think those age restrictions are wise, given the fundamental immaturity of the adolescent brain.  So I'm having trouble understanding how a 12-year-old can be sentenced to 30 years in jail - what amounts to an adult sentence - even if he did blow his grandparents away with a shotgun. Read More... Posted Apr 16 2008, 09:32 AM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Supreme Court, anti-depressants, Christopher Pittman, child killers

• Do Child Rapists Deserve The Death Penalty?

  I thought only convicted murderers could be sentenced to death in the United States.  But right now two men sit on death row, both in Louisiana, neither of whom has been accused of killing anyone.  What they are both guilty of is raping children, and the Supreme Court recently agreed to hear arguments as to whether or not the death penalty in these cases is constitutional.   Read More... Posted Jan 06 2008, 03:29 PM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Supreme Court, death penalty, Patrick Kennedy, child rapists

• Sperm Donor Doesn't Have To Pay Child Support

  This one is maybe a bigger deal than it seems like at first: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Joel L. McKiernan will not have to pay child support. Up until now he has been giving ex-girlfriend Ivonne V. Ferguson $1,500 a month to support twin boys, at the ruling of lower courts. Now, his paternity is not in question, but the issue is that McKiernan donated his sperm to Ferguson after they broke up with the agreement that he would not have to pay child support and would not have visitation rights. (Moral number one: Do not donate sperm to an ex-girlfriend.) What do we weigh here, the best interests of the children or the rights of a sperm donor?   Read More... Posted Jan 04 2008, 12:38 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: lawsuit, insemination, child support legislation, Supreme Court, paternity, sperm donor, sue, court decision

• Unleash Your Inner Activist: Fight Unequal Pay for Moms

  I had been working at my last job for about three years when the company hired someone in a peer position. I found out months later that he was making a good $10K more than me. At the time I was ticked off but ended up shrugging and saying to myself, "What can I do about it?" It turns out there is something you can do about it: MomsRising says "The Supreme Court's ruling in Ledbetter vs. Goodyear that discrimination claims must be made within 180 days after the pay is set is a major setback in women's rights. How many of us know what our co-workers make? In fact, many employers forbid employees from discussing their pay, making it all the more difficult to discover pay discrimination within the short time frame now required by the Supreme Court." A bill has been introduced in Congress that would reverse Ledbetter: H.R. 2831. It won't completely erase the pervasive discrimination that exists in the workplace, but it certainly will help. And moms need all the help they can get: mothers are 79% LESS likely to be hired than non-mothers with identical resumes! Not only that, but mothers make 73 cents to a man's dollar (as opposed to 90 cents for non-moms)! It's easy to do your part to fight this discrimination: send a letter to your congressperson by clicking here and tell them to vote YES on H.R. 2831.  Are you experiencing discrimination in the workplace, or do you know someone who is? You can contact the Center for WorkLife Law Hotline at  1-800-981-9495 or send an email. Posted Jul 28 2007, 08:35 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: mothers, moms, Supreme Court, activism, moms rising, H.R. 2831, equal pay for moms

• Supreme Court Ruling Bans Partial Birth Abortion

  There are no two ways about it.  If you are a pro-choice person, you'll find yesterday's Supreme Court ruling worthy of black arm bands and quickening despair.  In the most stunning defeat of abortion rights in 30 years, the Supreme Court (In a 5-4 ruling)  banned partial birth abortion, making it easier to enact further restrictions and erode the constitutionally protected rights of women to choose, rights until now protected by Roe v. Wade.  Dissenting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg decried the decision, stating that the court was essentially sanctioning an all-out attack on a woman's right to choose.  Partial birth abortion has been challenged many times before by pro-life advocates, most recently in 2000.  This is the first time the Court has ruled against a specific procedure. Not surprisingly, President Bush is calling this another successful effort by his administration to protect the sanctity of life. Nevermind the war and the poverty and the millions of children without insurance.  Bah. Pro-choice groups are rallying to protect the rights ensured by Roe v. Wade and will continue to do so despite today's defeat. Posted Apr 19 2007, 10:32 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Supreme Court, Roe V. Wade, Pro-choice, partial birth abortion

• Supreme Justice? Scalia's Daughter Charged with DUI

  I'll admit to a certain aversion to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  He's been the thorn in the side of the Warren Court since he began serving over 20 years ago. So it was with less than total sorrow and concern that I first read that his 45-year old daughter, Ann S. Banaszewski, was charged with driving under the influence and child endangerment this past Monday in Wheaton, Illinois.  According to CNN, Ms. Banaszewski was arrested after a caller reported an intoxicated driver leaving a fast food restaurant.  But then I thought about her and her children.  If she was driving drunk with her three kids in tow, leaving a fast food restaurant, then she is someone I can identify with (not the driving drunk part).  She's probably a harried mother trying to feed her kids and kill the pain.  And that's no laughing matter. Posted Feb 14 2007, 04:46 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with no comments Filed under: dui, bad children, Justice Anton Scalia, Supreme Court