On the repugnant discovery at the Austin Women’s Health Center:
Had that bomb been found outside a post office or a school, the headlines would have been hysterically running on about ZOMG TERRORISM TERRORISM IS AL QAEDA INVOLVED? And the right-wing warbloggers would be pissing their pants and hyperventilating about profiling Arabs and banning Muslims from public life and dhimmitude and how if they had been there, they’d have stopped it with their concealed carry and their extra-super special powers of righteousness, just like they saw in a movie once and BOMB IRAN! and 9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING!!! but they still have better things to do than join the military, but they’ll be happy to go into the woods and hunt Russians and shout WOLVERINES!!
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But it’s an abortion clinic, so. Ho-hum.
UPDATE: Here’s more on the lack of reaction, from the WIMN’s Voices blog, while Pandagon pontificates on the special type of “batshit crazy” Austin produces.
I’ll chime in just a little here: We’ve gotten shit for a lot of the covers we’ve produced in the last year or so – the dead cats and the Anthony Benesh story come to mind – but never as much as we did for our “New Texas Family Planning” stirrups cover. Some geriatric asshole ambled in here and left a threatening note with the beleaguered front desk, and we actually hired extra security for a week or so. For some sick, semi-inexplicable societal reason, anything having to do with a woman’s reproduction does, as Amanda says, bring out the real freaks.
This article appears in April 27 • 2007.