Just This Once

I've got a medical appointment.  No, really.

1. Bob Somerby gets the grand slam.  (TW:  Ableist language in 2nd link.)  Poor children, conservatism against reality (special guest star Paul Krugman), Clinton, and attention focused on trivia.  Have at it.
2. Your politicians want to turn back the calendar.  Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast has the story:

   I remember a few years ago reading an article about how young women were unconcerned about the anti-abortion rhetoric of the right and how frustrated at their lack of concern older women were who remember the fight for abortion rights, and even some who remember the world before Griswold v. Connecticut. "Oh, they'll never make abortion illegal again," one young woman was quoted as saying. Well, yes they will, as we are now seeing in states where abortion may still be legal, but is impossible to obtain. Now they're coming for your contraception. And they'll get it too, if we let them.

3. Radiation from Fukushima scheduled to reach Tokyo tomorrow.  (In case you had forgotten about the big quake and tsunami in Japan last year.)
4. Religious liberty or money?  Insurance coverage for autism denied.
5. Accents in opera (more a question than an exposition).
6. Via skippy, Marcy Winograd leaving the Democratic Party for the Greens.
7. Trinity Cemetery Uptown, an encapsulation of New York City history.

And it seems I'm too slow or something for the job.  Oh well.