There’s a lot going on in the news but I’m a little behind on my reading. Until I get caught up, here are a few things I saw today:

– Well crap. Stephen Colbert (h/t @SophiaPhotos)

– Of course. Single mothers, man. They screw up EVERYTHING. Newspaper Editor Blames Decline of His Industry on Single Moms

– Here’s hoping: FAA May Stop Making You Power Off Those Electronics (h/t @DrJaneChi)

So furious at the actions the GOP have taken. There will be a post when I can better gather my thoughts beyond COME THE FUCK ON. Until then…

– Interested to see whether your representative voted to give your boss power over your medical choices? How Did Your Representative Vote?

– Other countries explaining this asshattery to their people: US shutdown: a guide for non-Americans

– Who does this hurt? Not the rich White dudes in power: 48 Ways a Government Shutdown Will Screw You Over (h/t @AngryBlackLady)

– NBC loses, workers win: NBC Loses Fight to Misclassify Workers (h/t @AllisonKilkenney)

– That image circulating, with the blindingly White men at the table? They’re full of it: Here Is Why The GOP’s Proposal To Conference With The Senate Is A Sham (via @ThinkProgress)

So much relaxing this weekend. Also so much rain and wind! It was great weather for reading the internets and increasing my anger with the GOP.

– It’s not our place to tell women that what they choose to wear is wrong: Calling all feminists: Get over the veil debate, focus on real problems (h/t @ajam)

– HURRAH! I love this: Why We’re Shutting Off Our Comments (h/t The Mister)

– WHAT THE EVER LOVING HELL? Adrian Mendez Runs Girl Over Multiple Times Because She Refused Sex: Cops (via @Wonkette)

– In other news, humans are the worst: Judge to Sikh Man: Remove “That Rag” (h/t @RaniaKhalek)

– Whoa. An advice columnist gets it right! Carolyn Hax: Don’t try to get a child to conform to gender expectations (h/t @fakedansavage)

– Oh New Jersey! New Jersey judge rules gay marriage must be legal (via @ajam)

– Jimmy Kimmel – yup, that’s racist: The Worst Part Of The Kanye-Kimmel Saga? It’s Hardly Surprising. (h/t @DrJaneChi)

– Horrible, horrible people: GOP adds ‘conscience clause’ to spending bill

– SNL is White. So, so White: Saturday Night Live’s race problem

– Apparently this bakery’s front counter was also so, so White: Racism in Plain Sight: Woman Denied position at NYC Bakery For Being Black (via @MadameNoire)

– Ha: Finding women who can write is complicated at the London Review of Books

– This is awesome: Guest Post: A Letter to Marissa Alexander by T.F. Charlton (Grace) (h/t @laurenarankin)

Crisp fall day – needed a coat for the morning walk to work.

– Oooh look! A group that did something utterly ridiculous took it back. So that’s nice: School board lifts heavily-criticized ban on Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’

– A nice exploration of all the ways we tell boys it’s bad to be anything less than ‘masculine’: The real boy crisis: 5 ways America tells boys not to be “girly” (via @schemaly)

– A long read: NCAA and sexism: ‘We Felt Like We Were Above the Law’: How the NCAA Endangers Women (via @scATX)

– Kind of nice to see a guy calling out the dude bro ridiculousness: #BeAnExample (h/t Miss Representation)

– This is awesome! Marissa Alexander, Sentenced to 20 Years for Firing One Shot Into the Ceiling, Gets a Retrial (h/t @DrJaneChi)

– So bizarre. Famed Italian pasta maker Barilla: Gays can eat someone else’s pasta (h/t @JessicaValenti)

– Ooooh, goodie. A lit prof who won’t teach books written by women. FANtastic. Lit Professor Who Doesn’t Teach Books by Women Is Surprised That Offends People (h/t @RepresentPledge)

– Anotherexample of why we need universal health care, not this system that still ties much of the health care to employment: ObamaCare List Hits 313 As 54 Colleges Cut Adjunct Hours

– And finally, my favorite article of the day: Atlas Shrugged Producers Launch Kickstarter to Finish Their Self-Reliant Epic

I just finished “Weeds.” A couple of years late, but glad I finally closed that out.

– Yup. “I cannot – CANNOT – care more about football players than the child victims. I cannot. Stop asking me to. And if you are angry that we are to the point where someone feels like they must choose between football players and child victims, THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM”: The Reduction of Penn State Sanctions: The Unsurprising Cowardice of the NCAA (via @scATX)

– This is fascinating. “Gender mainstreaming has been in place in the Austrian capital since the early 1990s. In practice, this means city administrators create laws, rules and regulations that benefit men and women equally.” How to Design a City for Women (h/t @FemFreq)

– I know my mom has stopped enjoying going to NFL games – and they’ve been season ticket holders for years. As a Female NFL Fan, I Want a Better Stadium Experience—Not a Pink Jersey (h/t @scATX)

– This is so … ugh. Live your life how you want, but the part about letting marital rape happen? NOPE. ‘Real Housewife’ Melissa Gorga’s New Book Advocates Marital Rape (h/t @JillFilipovic)

And the downside of the return of autumn – sickness abounds.

– Result of a Supreme Court ruling last session … very sad: “I do not want to go! I do not want to go!” Screamed Veronica as She was Taken From Her Biological Father (h/t @ChiefElk)

– Health insurance is almost here: Seattle volunteers spread the word about Affordable Care Act (via @ajam)

– Shocker: The latest B.S. attack on the Affordable Care Act is … B.S.: Sorry, The Latest Anti-Obamacare Article To Go Viral Is Totally Wrong (via @ThinkProgress)

– Interesting article on names: What’s so wrong with giving your kid a ‘black name’?

– Yup. Jillian Michaels is not a good person: I Worked Out With Jillian Michaels and She Made Me Feel Bad About My Body (h/t @TheLindyWest)

Fall is here!

– Food stamps. Veterans on food stamps: My Name Is Jason, I’m A 35-Yr-Old White Male Combat Veteran…And I’m On Food Stamps

– Private prisons. Not a good idea: A Majority Of Private Prison Contracts Include ‘Lockup Quotas’ To Guarantee Profits (via @raniakhalek)

– Awesome points on food stamps: Congresswoman Uses Steak, Vodka, And Caviar To Hammer Republicans On Food Stamp Cuts (h/t @JessicaValenti)

– Blame the feminists! Blame a Feminist: The Top Tragedies Feminism Has Wrought (h/t @schemaly)

– HA HA: This Robin Thicke review is almost as good as that Chris Brown review. NO STARS.

– Canada puts its money where its mouth is: NDP wants visa ban on Russian politicians who supported anti-gay law

– Peter King: Still bad at life: Rep. Peter King Urges Racial Profiling of Somali-Americans In Wake of Kenya’s Terrorist Attack (via @raniakhalek)

– I still don’t get how this is legal in so many states: Massachusetts Might Force a Woman to Share Parental Rights with the Rapist Who Impregnated Her

Tomorrow is day one of a two-day drill. Saturday night will be spent on the couch, watching shitty movies, then sleeping. A lot.

– Fascinating read: How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers

– A little more detail on why Blurred Lines is such a creepy song: What Rapists Say Echoes the Lyrics of “Blurred Lines” (via @MsMagazine)

– Whoa: French Senate Says “Non” To Mini-Miss Pageants (via @AP)

– Whoa. Cards Against Humanity did a little subversive move at PAX: Penny Arcade

– “And here’s a handy rule of thumb: if your team name exists only because there was a genocide, then you might need a new team name.” Rick Reilly and the Most Irredeemably Stupid Defense of the Redskins Name You Will Ever Read (via @EdgeOfSports)

– KITTEH! This Russian Library Just Hired a Stray Cat as Its Assistant Librarian (h/t @DrJaneChi)

– Fat people get shit treatment just by existing. Just Because I’m Fitnessing While Fat Doesn’t Mean You Can Try To Sell Me Weight Loss Crap (via @theRotund)

– Who does this? How is this … the hell? Parents Complain After Child Forced to Reenact Slavery on a Field Trip

First off – happy birthday to my father in law, who I’m 99.9% sure will not be reading this 🙂

– Group Health makes a change; rights a wrong: Group Health about-face: Customers will have access to abortions (via @Q13Fox)

– This is fabulous: The Inside Story Of The Feminists Who Fooled Us Into Thinking Playboy Cared About Consent (via @ThinkProgress)

– Want to read an article that unironically shows the problem with Americans who choose ignorance over reality? Apparently Penny Arcade buys into the idea that racists are just a small segment of the U.S. They continue to be unimpressive: Miss America, bigot shaming, and the media’s vile attraction to the worst in America (h/t @PublicShaming)

– I like to support the independent, local shops for my hot chocolate fix. However, this definitely makes me feel better about choosing Starbucks: An Open Letter from Howard Schultz, ceo of Starbucks Coffee Company (h/t @King5Seattle)

– Fascinating: The 300-year-old fertility statistics still in use today (via @BBCNews)

– I am now a signatory! Welcome to our our newest signatories!

– Intriguing – NCAA claims that colleges can’t use sex to recruit players. And yet … there seems to be nothing in the rules that state that: Where *Exactly* Does It Say That? The NCAA’s Prohibition of Sex In Recruiting (via @scATX)

– Domestic violence: A ‘Grim Tally’: Abusers, Guns, and the Women They Kill (h/t @JessicaValenti)