The new guy appointed to head up the family planning program at the Department of Health and Human Services is "" get this "" Is a Bush neo-nazi who doesn’t believe in family planning. Or rather, he believes that family planning should consist solely of each man deciding whether or not to plow his wife or let her lie fallow for a year. Contraception, according to the said neocon, is "demeaning to women." Translation: Shut the f*** up, b*******. We men will decide whether you get knocked up or not.

Meanwhile, in bit of synchronicity that would strike me as ominous if I were in the midst of a paranoid fugue state, the FDA has re-approved silicon breast implants. Big plastic boobs: good [Not!]. Women controlling their own reproductive lives: bad. {not!]

You know that somewhere in a top-secret underground robotics lab, misogynist male chauvanist scientists are working feverishly to develop life-size Barbie dolls that can be programmed for sex, oral sex, clean house, and make babies on command. Then the government can just kill us real women and be done with it.