Sometimes Rush gets a little overexcited
You may recall that all-dude panel of “experts” at that recent congressional hearing on contraception. One of the reasons it was an all-dude panel was that congressional Republicans wouldn’t let Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke testify on the costs of birth control. (She later testified at a separate hearing held by Nancy Pelosi.)
Apparently stating publicly how much contraception costs when it’s not covered by insurance is basically the equivalent of pooping on the flag to some misogynistic assholes, among them the always charming Rush Limbaugh, who has denounced Fluke as a “slut” and a whore, saying, at one point, that she
went before a Congressional committee and said she’s having so much sex she’s going broke buying contraceptives and wants us to buy them.
Actually, she didn’t testify about her own experience at all.
Also, does Limbaugh even know how contraception works? Yes, the number of condoms one buys depends on how often you have sex. (Or at the very least how often you hope to have sex. Who knows how many boxes of condoms, purchased in moments of optimism, have quietly expired on the shelf waiting for their purchasers to finally get their mojo working. )
But the costs of many other forms of contraception have no relation whatsoever to the frequency of sex. Women on “the pill” take a pill every day, regardless of whether they are having sex that day or not. Women using IUDs don’t run down to the health center to have one installed every time their vagina expects a visitor.
Birth control, in short, doesn’t work like Oxycontin or Viagra, the two pills about which Limbaugh seems most knowledgeable.
Sorry to belabor the obvious, which apparently isn’t so obvious if you’re a right-wing, woman-hating asshole.
Anyway, now Limbaugh seems to think he’s entitled to watch Fluke having sex:
So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. … We want you post the videos online so we can all watch.
Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Here’s the excerpt from his radio show in which he makes this creepy demand.
I just realized why I’m holding him to this standard o: And it’s my own fault for misreading. Ideologue Review doesn’t mean that he’s reviewing ideologues, but that he IS an ideologue giving reviews xD
And, since we are swapping anecdotes about Catholics: I have a friend who converted to Catholocism. When she, and her finacé were getting pre-marital counselling she asked her priest what to do about her BC, which she was taking because she had horrible cramps, and headaches and the like when she was menstruating. She was, for non-related reasons, still a virgin.
“Keep taking it. When you want to get pregnant, stop.”
IR/FF/PP: If you’re going to libel someone, at least be courteous enough to get your story straight.
If you are being libeled, file a suit.
Viscaria: I’ve actually had chocolate truffles with edible gold leaf on them. It was the ultimate in “wtf, rich people?” since it didn’t taste at all different, it just cost more. Plus, I don’t think even “food-grade” gold is something we should probably ingest.
Gold, like pearls, is perfectly fine to ingest. Silver, copper, lead, not so much. The thickness of gold leaf is staggering, not more than about 10 atoms thick. It’s not expensive because of how much gold is in it, but because it’s, mostly, made by hand. Guys spend all day beating on it with mallets, between sheets of leather, while they gossip.
Cassandra: Pop Rocks work because the candy is made under pressure, in a CO2 environment. The small bubbles in the sugar matrix are under 3-4 atmospheres of pressure. When the wall gets thin enough, they burst.