Greg Abbott, running for Governor of Texas, held a press conference yesterday at St. Joseph’s Women’s Medical Center in Houston on the topic of women’s health care.

On the far, far right is Republican State Senator Joan Huffman.  Huffman was one of only two female state senators to vote against equal pay for equal work, so she hardly qualifies as a woman.

So, see if you can figure out what’s wrong with this picture.

We don’t cotton to no Frisbee golf in Texas.

A man in Midland caught a kid trying to retrieve his frisbee after it went into the man’s backyard.  And by “the man,” I mean this really pleasant guy —

City spokesperson Sara Higgins told the Midland Reporter-Telegram that the 19 year old had been playing Frisbee golf on Tuesday when the disc accidentally flew into the yard of 43-year-old Buddy Myers.

The teen reportedly knocked on the man’s front door, but no one answered. He then tried to peer over the backyard fence. That’s when Myers allegedly exited the home with a pistol, and fired a shot in the direction of the teen.

The man then barricaded himself inside his home.  He finally answered the door and was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.

Neighbors told KOSA that Meyers had hated the Frisbee golfers playing in a park behind his home.

“The park’s really booming back there but Buddy didn’t like the Frisbees flying in his back yard,” neighbor Steve Conley noted. “So it was obvious that he was hot about it.”

Yeah, obvious, that’s what it is.

Thanks to Irene for the heads up.

Jon Stewart and The Daily Show is coming to Austin during early voting in Texas.  Just when we need them to help with GOTV!

Everybody keep a lookout for when the tickets become available.  Let me know and then you can call your mother.

Hey, this is important.

My buddy Judy was in Whole Foods in Sugar Land today.  She sent me this picture of the graffiti on the ladies room door.

I would expect a higher level of entertainment graffiti at Whole Foods and today’s door did not disappoint.  (Click the little one to see the big one.)

I thought “Lizards” was a nice touch.

Yes, indeed, music does rock.

Thank to John A. Kwitkoski for the cool graphic.

There are days when I just hate Republicans.  Seriously.  Hate them.  I know it’s wrong but, dammit, they just stir up my ire and fry it on a stovetop in cheap grease.

Okay, so Wendy Davis tells a tragic story of losing a child due to a severe brain abnormality.

After getting several medical opinions and feeling the baby they had named Tate Elise “tremble violently, as if someone were applying an electric shock to her” in the womb, she said the decision was clear.

“She was suffering,” Davis wrote.

The unborn baby’s heart was “quieted” by her doctor, and their baby was gone. She was delivered by cesarean section in spring 1997, the memoir says.

Davis wrote that she and her then-husband, Jeff, spent time with Tate the next day and had her baptized. They cried, took photographs and said their good-byes, she wrote, and Tate’s lifeless body was taken away the following day.

Sadly, Davis’ story is a familiar one to far too many women who have made decisions that no mother should have to make.  In Republican Red Texas, politicians, mostly male like the entire Republican statewide ticket, would make that decision for them.

And some of those men are total nincompoops.

Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak accused the campaign of using Davis’ story to promote abortion, a move he called “sickening” and “subhuman,” and he noted that the media attention would “impact book sales and also pay dividends for the campaign.”

He later apologized for saying subhuman after people looked at him with the letters W.T.F. on their faces, but he let the “sickening” part stand.  Yes, it is sickening — to women faced with those choices.  Not to you, Skippy.

I, for one, will not be shamed by a Texas political party who has not one – even one! – woman on their statewide ticket.  They have shown what they think about me and ta-tas.  They can kiss my big blue sickening butt.