No, it’s, uh, far more confusing even than all that! Trans men have abortions. Gender queer people have abortions. Two spirit people have abortions. People who do not fit into the box of ‘woman’ have abortions. That’s the reality we live in. And by “we,” s/he of course means “us/them”. Or some such. Damn you, English language, and the pernicious gendered structural demands your divisive binaries place on our/their consciousness(es)!

So says the WSJ’s Douglas Belkin today: The Wisconsin Supreme Court election that could affect a contentious union-rights law just got even messier. On Monday, the 80-year-old Democratic election observer who vouched for the conduct of the Waukesha County Clerk in the April 5 state Supreme Court race said she was kept in the dark and now isn’t sure what happened. Last week, observer Ramona Kitzinger told reporters that the

Shannen Coffin, NRO: [The AP is reporting on the budget deal] that the cuts consist of cancellation of one-time expenditures on milk price supports, cuts to unspent census money, and highway expenditures already zeroed out by other legislation. Undoubtedly, there are some real savings in the package, like $10 billion in earmark reductions. But even there, the policy of earmark elimination was already enacted shortly after the new Congress was

Well, he’s a guy who got more votes than some other guy. So why shouldn’t he have a right to tell millions of people what perfectly legal beverages they can and can’t put into their own bodies on city property? I mean, he got more votes than another dude! That practically makes him a GOD, does it not? We no longer live in a free country. Simple as that. Oh.

Don’t worry: This time they really really mean it: Despite the tension and the glare of the media spotlight, the fledgling relationship between Boehner and Reid actually grew stronger over the last couple of months, according to sources close to both men. That is important because the next political crisis of raising the nation’s debt ceiling is just around the corner. Over the weekend, Reid told The New York Times,

The Shrieking Shack of Schlitz.

All this talk that we live in a soft-tyranny? Just the rantings of “anti-government” rabble rousers — extremists looking to confront and incite. Move along. Nothing to see here: At […] Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria. Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to

Wait, you mean it’s never really been about the environment — that it’s always been about money and power? I’m OUTRAGED! (h/t Dave O’C)

Hey, isn’t that what Obama and the Dems think, too? Serendipity!

Meh. Nitpicking. Stop being such an extremist. I mean, at least now we’re talking about cuts rather than spending, right? We’ve entirely changed the terms of the debate! To wit, if we’re going to spend — and we know now that, even at the non-essential level, the federal government is simply too important to shut down or extensively pare down (blessedly, the GOP just affirmed that view of federal governance)