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Today, that would be Spencer Ackerman (a.k.a., Attackerman) who, in his vigilence , is defending the honor of the female sex against the designs of right-wing commentator Dennis Prager, who has been writing how married women are obligated to put out for hubby whenever the latter expresses his "needs". Kyle of Right-Wing Watch suggests that Prager subscribes the " Phyllis Schlafly School of Marriage Counseling ", the doyenne of the right having uttered this last year at an appearance at Bates College: "By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape," she said. Hat-tip to the fabulous Frankie G. of The Beltway Sewer.

Your blogstress is still wrestling with the decision of Barack Obama (whom her feminist self supported all the way back in the primaries) to anoint the right-wing, anti-gay, anti-woman Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the presidential inaugural ceremonies. Mon Dieu, mes amis ! How to make sense of it? One hopes that Mr. Obama has a trick or two up his sleeve in bestowing this honor on one who has compared pro-choice people to Holocaust deniers, equated gay marriage with polygamy and marriage between an adult and a child (and later denied having done so), and preaches that wives should submit to their husbands. To many liberals, Warren's words are hard not to take personally, especially if you're a woman and/or a member of the LGBT community. This is no mere game of "dozens"; reports come in daily of LGBT people assaulted or killed for no other reason than being queer; meanwhile the terrorism of anti-choice forces has reduced abortion, in many are...