Gingrich had an affair during the impeachment talks. This on top of divorcing his first wife while she was in the hospital.

brett_dunbar pointed me to Gillick competence, a recent English common law decision that minors can consent to medical care on their own. No parental notifications for abortion there!

http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

Tikkun rabbi on why Kerry lost: because while Americans are apparently not bright enough to tell when Bush is lying to them, or the ridiculousness of someone who went AWOL from the National Guard attacking the war record of someone who actually went to Vietnam, they can tell when they're being condescended to by Democrats selecting a candidate they didn't like much or agree with (pro-war, pro-PATRIOT Kerry) over ones who could have really expressed liberal values (Dean, Kucinich) on the grounds of getting elected by those Americans. Note: conservatives in the 1960s didn't run to the center, they kept trying until they dragged the political center to them.

And I've discovered The Pain -- When Will it End? webcomic. There is so much joy there. It started off just weird, but has been charmingly political since 9/11, along with biting commentaries. Apropos the Kerry thing, I give you the Sex Party:

Re Newt and Bill: Future Presidential Timeline

God: Republican or Democrat?
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly070307a.htm

Kashistan
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly011010.htm

The Day After (2006)
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly061115.htm

Giant Squid
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly051005a.htm

John Ashcroft vs. The Nipples of Liberty
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly020703a.htm
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly020717.htm

Regime change
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly020918.htm

5000 years of imperialism
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly030319.htm

Onan the Barbarian. May be unsafe for work. Not that I should have to tell you that.
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly030625.htm

Trials of The Creature
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly030903a.htm
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly030709.htm

Nixon vs. Bush
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly040811.htm

The Slippery Slope
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly020327a.htm

Scientists Riot
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly060215.htm