First, the bad news: Misogynist anti-abortion loonjobs have decided that today is National Pro-Life Cupcake Day. Seriously. I'm not nearly creative enough to be making this shit up. As if it isn't bad enough that some people consider the rights of my hypothetical lima bean to be more important than my own as an adult citizen and fully-integrated member of society, they wanted to drag sweet, innocent cupcakes into it. My friends and I are considering starting our own pastry-related celebration of feminism and rational thought, but it will be far superior because it will celebrate our right to choose from a wide variety of delicious baked goods.
And now for the good news: though eclipsed by the buzz surrounding Obama winning the Triwizard Cup or whatever, this has been a record year for female Nobel laureates. Americans Elizabeth Blackburn (also kind of a badass for standing up for stem-cell research, which lead to her controversial dismissal from Bush's President's Council on Bioethics [oxymoron??]) and Carol Greider took the prize in medicine for genetics research including the discovery of telomerase. Israeli Ada Yonath took the prize for chemistry, which has not been awarded to a woman since 1964. Finally, Romanian Herta Mueller won the prize for literature. Congratulations, ladies!
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