South Dakota Asks: Can Women Think on the Weekends?

South Dakota already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation, requiring women to visit a "crisis pregnancy center" and wait 72-hours after a doctor's consultation before exercising their constitutionally-protected rights. Now, Kate Sheppard has flagged down an exciting new abortion restriction from the people who believe in a government so small, it fits comfortably inside a woman's uterus:

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Tags: Abortion, South Dakota, State Legislature, Women's Rights

Monday Links: Saturday Night's Alright for Biden

* Ain't no party like a Joe Biden party.

* The Onion's timeline of women in combat.

* Pie charts can be misleading, from McSweeney's.

* The Rude Pundit examines Sarah Palin's Fox farewell.

* From Videogum, your complete guide to the Puppy Bowl.

* Meanwhile, The Complete Guide to Everything covers the Super Bowl.

* Whoa: Fox News pundits look exactly like Kids in the Hall characters.

* The Bugle podcast discusses the European Union, second terms and the other kind of football.

* What the hell is Lance Armstrong doing here? He doesn't belong here.

* Beat-boxing with a metronome and no performance enhancers.

* Five places to see America's human fossil record before you become part of it.

Tags: America, Daily Links, Fox News, Joe Biden, Kids in the Hall, Lance Armstrong, Military, Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, Sports, Super Bowl, The Onion, vice president, Women's Rights

Tweet Untweet: A Dream Deferred

Women in combat? Just imagine what kinds of deferments Liz Cheney could have gotten!

— Rob Kutner (@ApocalypseHow) January 25, 2013

Tags: Liz Cheney, Military, Tweet Untweet, Twitter, Women's Rights

Friday's Links: Spittin' Science Rhymes

* The sounds of science.

* Bad Lip Reading at the inauguration.

* And you thought your relatives were bad…

* The Star Wars Sequel Debacle Simulatron.

* The Onion wants to make the Huffington Post cry.

* What happens in Las Vegas politics should stay there.

* Meanwhile, Baratunde Thurston calls out The Wall Street Journal.

* Feminism is a word that makes some men lose their f-ing minds.

* Surprisingly interesting discussion about Churchill's role in UK intellectual property laws.

* Sascha Cohen talks American History with Tig Notaro, Kyle Dunnigan and David Huntsberger.

Tags: Daily Links, Evolution, Feminism, History, Huffington Post, Inauguration, Las Vegas, Republicans, Sascha Cohen, Science & Technology, Star Wars, Tig Notaro, United Kingdom, Wall Street Journal, Winston Churchill, Women's Rights

New Mexico Tries to Out-Clown Arizona

Hey, New Mexico, how upset are you that Arizona's legislature gets all the attention for being a caricature of what a functional state legislature is supposed to look like?

Apparently, upset enough to consider a bill introduced by state representative Cathrynn Brown (R) that could turn victims of rape and incest felons under New Mexico law by turning abortions into "evidence tampering."

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Tags: Abortion, New Mexico, State Legislature, Women's Rights