The Fox News morons have their knickers in a twist over CVS's new policy to stop carrying tobacco products.

Retchin' Gretchen Carlson notes, with superlative idiocy, “For people who smoke, you know, they have a right to buy cigarettes. It’s not illegal.”

Uh, yeah, Gretch. They do have the right to buy cigarettes. But there's no law that requires drug stores to carry them. And you were just fine with drug stores refusing to sell the "morning after" pill.

People also have the right to purchase beer in restaurants (assuming they're of age and not obviously intoxicated). That doesn't mean that McDonald's has to start carrying it. (Although in Germany, McDonald's does sell beer.)

Could it be because the President actually praised CVS for doing this that has you up in arms? No, of course not. It's all about the principle.

A long time linux kernel developer, who happens to be a woman, discusses the past few years culture war in tech:

www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software

Girls and Software

Yep, I said "girls". Since men were once boys, but women sprang from the head of Zeus full-grown and fighting like modern-day Athenas, you can start flaming me now for using that nasty word...unless you'd like to see the industry through the eyes of a girl who grew up to be a woman in the midst of a loose collection of open-source communities.

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The best you can do for your child is give him a good name.

Universal Knowledge Allah, for example.

How desperate has the GOP become?

This desperate.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you; But if you really make them think they'll hate you. -- Don Marquis