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All right, let's see if I find everything I mean to post and remember to link this time.

• Paul Krassner (first of six parts) on his time as an underground abortion referral service.  Remember, this is what conservatives want to restore.
• From a Daily Kos reprint at AlterNet:  Trying to be scary about paid sick leave.

  The evidence shows that paid sick leave does not hurt businesses. Meanwhile, it keeps workers from having to choose between going to work sick and paying the bills, and it offers public health benefits. So when you hear all these dire predictions from restaurant owners and industry groups, take them for what they are: ideological arguments from low-wage employers who just don't want to treat their workers any better.

• Why the Voting Rights Act is necessary:

  The Supreme Court will hear arguments against it later this month in Shelby County vs. Holder. At issue is whether section 5, which requires states with a long history of voting discrimination to pre-clear election law changes with the justice department, is unconstitutional because it unfairly discriminates against those states based on ancient history. The entire argument hinges on the notion that much progress has been made and these states will not enact discriminatory voting laws once section 5 is repealed.

  Isn't that what the financiers said about all those Depression-era banking and investment rules? Because we've already seen that failure mode.  The Voting Rights Act is not a dead letter.  Those states will most certainly do so if they can.