Okay, this is going to take some brain wrapping.

Here’s a guy in Tennessee who’s a state representative named Matthew Hill who wanted to make  doctors who perform an abortion file some paperwork.  He would require private information written on forms routinely filed after every abortion to be posted online.

The forms contain the physician’s name, the name and address of the facility where the abortion took place, as well as details about the woman obtaining the abortion, including her age, race, marital status, city of residence and the number of children she currently has.

Critics, including the Tennessee Medical Association, said that information could have intimidated or endangered doctors. The demographic information also could have identified a woman from a small or rural community who had obtained an abortion.

Republican Representative Hill withdrew that portion of his bill.

Representative Hill - He Makes A Large Target

Wanna know why?  Because it was the right thing to do?  Because it would violate the privacy of both doctor and patient?  Because doctors who perform abortions have been killed in this country?

Nope.

He withdrew it because he accused “opponents of spreading lies about it and inciting threats of violence against him.”

Ding!  Ding!  Ding!

Representative Hill, you are the winner of The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc’s Irony Bigger Than Your Butt Award!

You can pick up your prize at your local League of Women Voters headquarters.  I’m sure they will even gift wrap it for you.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads-up.

One of our customers from Missouri, the lovely and charming Miss Debbie,  wanted us to know that Texas ain’t the only state where the rightwing is trying to kill each other.

Apparently, Gingrich’s and Santorum’s boys in Missouri are having a belly brawl.  Check out this news video of the problems they are having with the caucus system between two ole boys, both of who look like they ate their brother.

Honey, in Texas the only time I’ve seen anything that big, half of it was roasting on a spit.  I’ve been checking the map for some hills in Missouri because they sure do have some Billys there.

Thanks to Debbie for the heads-up.

Life has not been kind to Wisconsin State Representative Don Pridemore.

First they freed the slaves, then Elvis died, then the Rat Pack dissolved, then they stopped letting you blow your cigarette smoke in people’s faces, then women got all uppity, then Mick Jagger got invented, then we elected a black President, then there was child labor laws, then … did I mention the uppity women thing?

In Wisconsin a Republican state representative has come out against divorce for any reason — even domestic abuse.

Instead of leaving an abusive situation, women should try to remember the things they love about their husbands, Representative Don Pridemore said.

That there is some dandy advice.  When he comes in at 2:00 in the morning with liquor on his breath, humping on his mind, and a baseball bat in his hand, just take a deep breath and remember that he sent you flowers in 1989.

And, Pridemore’s co-heart in the Wisconsin State Senate, Republican Neanderthal Glenn Grothman, adds something else women need to think about while getting whipped up on —

“There’s been a huge change over the last 30 years, and a lot of that change has been the choice of the women,” Grothman said.

Ironic that Grothman’s statement was meant to degrade women, but sounds like something we should take a bow for.

Thanks to Carl and Claudia for the heads-up.

Okay, I know you have noticed that I’ve kinda written a lot about the Super DeLux Brand Christians who have closed mind and closed wallets but spread around judgement like bread on the waters.

I should be ashamed of myself.

Come to find out, they can’t help it.

Older adults who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.

And we think we know why that happens: stress.  That’s right, we when you feel outside the mainstream, that causes stress.

According to the study, people who said they were a “born-again” Protestant or Catholic, or conversely, those who had no religious affiliation, had more hippocampal shrinkage (or “atrophy”) compared to people who identified themselves as Protestants, but not born-again.

So the lesson here is:  get born once and then quit it.

I remember that every time Tom DeLay used to get caught doing something illegal or immoral, he’d get born again again.  They take him down to the river and dunk him a couple of times.  Then we’d have to skim nasty off the river for a week.

Bless his heart, if Rick Santorum gets born again again, he’ll be in the negative brain weight division.  That’s what happened to Dick Cheney’s heart, you know.  He’s so mean, his heart resigned.

Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.

When the revolution comes, this guy gets a pass.

As the only Republican Congressman at a rally for the Equal Rights Amendment on Thursday, Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) gave women an unexpected piece of advice: Give your money to Democrats.

“I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault,” he told the crowd of mostly women. “I’ll tell you this: Contribute your money to people who speak out on your behalf, because the other side — my side — has a lot of it. And you need to send your own message. You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can’t succeed without your help.”

Carry his picture in your wallet.  He gets some mercy from the sisterhood.

Thanks to Deb for the heads-up.

This morning I went to a great Democratic training session for Senate District 18.  Then I went to eat Mexican food with some of my favorite Democrats and then …

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And then …. Rick Santorum won Louisiana.  It’s pretty much been a perfect day.