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• Santorum: “Science leads you where it leads you.” Also the heart wants what it wants. Sometimes that’s a dog. No, seriously: Rick comes out against “intelligent design” (magic). [Beaver County Times (no shit), via Pandagon]
• Oh, God: Please don’t make me give up Target. So they are all “Fuck you bitch about your little unprotected pregnancy sex accident” — they have really great housewares. Fuck. Fry’s man, tho? I will never. Shop. There. Again. [Savage Love (last item)]
• Bush tonight: “Reasonable people can disagree about the conduct of the war –­ but it is irresponsible for Democrats to now claim that we misled them and the American people.” Translation: You can disagree except when you do. [Michelle Malkin]
• Kazakhstan totally pissed about Ali G. [Reuters]
• “If you’re going to be the lead columnist for the business section of a major American newspaper, a certain amount of Bentonville ball-lickery is part of the package.” [TMFTML]

Planned Parenthood and other reproductive-rights advocates have been drawing attention to an incident at Target store in Missouri where a pharmacist allegedly refused to fill a prescription for emergency contraception. We’re reluctant to pile on here, mostly because we really don’t want to give up this adorable Mossimo skirt we got last month. Or the shoes from last week. Or the drapes from yesterday. Also, Target disputes the details of the story. However, no one disputes that Target does allow pharmacists to deny emergency contraception to customers. This is supposedly a bow to pro-lifers, but Dahlia Lithwick pointed out the policy’s tragic unintended consequence last April: If you don’t give a woman emergency contraception, she becomes pregnant — and can get an abortion. As Lithwick said: It “would be ironic, were it not so sad.” MORE »

Harriet Miers 2.0 appears to be getting off to a jerky start. First, she appears to have told Sen. Arlen Specter that the landmark privacy case Griswold v. Connecticut was “rightly decided,” when really she meant “you have the blood of the unborn on your hands, stem-cell killer!” She also told Sen. Chuck Schumer that when it came to some of the legal issues he wanted to discuss, she needed to “’sort of bone up on this a little more.” Indeed. We suspect she hasn’t boned much at all. At least we believe her that, when it comes to abortion rights, “nobody knows how I would rule.” That includes her. — WONKETTE MORE »

James Dobson’s recent revelations regarding his conversation with Karl Rove show him to be a member of the Judy Miller school of publicity:

I think it’s a mistake and maybe even an ethical problem for people to do that—to go out and brag about being a player on the national scene, maybe to make themselves to look important.

Yeah, refusing to reveal confidential information pertaining to a controversial national issue is a sure way to stay behind the scenes, Jim. As for the substance of the conversation, Dobson claims that Rove sought to bolster Dobson’s confidence in Miers’s pro-life stance by telling him she is an evangelical Christian. (He also hinted that other, perhaps more acceptable candidates had dropped out. Pussies.) Dobson, clearly, was convinced. But, uhm, hey: Isn’t making a legal decision based on your religion unconstitutional? MORE »

Earlier we mentioned that the FDA decided to overrule pesky scientific evidence regarding the Plan B emergency contraception and instead turn to the public for advice. That may turn out to be just as well, because the actual scientists are leaving. Writes Susan Wood, former Assistant Commissioner for Women’s Health:

I can no longer serve as staff when scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated and recommended for approval by the professional staff here, has been overruled. I therefore have submitted my resignation effective today.

Girls — so moody! MORE »

The Food and Drug Administration took out the Friday trash last week, announcing the deferral of the approval of the Plan B “morning after pill” at 3PM on a Friday and taking four questions before “abruptly” ending the news conference. So much for opening the debate to “public comment,” though we have our doubts about going to the American people for advice on anyway; we’ll end up with a law requiring pharmacists state that Plan B is “just a theory.” A controversial and complicated scientific decision just doesn’t seem like one of those things that should go to a popular vote — look how we screwed up “Dancing with the Stars.” MORE »