Left Side of the Aisle #118

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of July 25-31, 2013

This week:

Good news: Westboro Baptist Church gets satirized
http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/28311/The-Satanic-Temple-Performs-Same-Sex-Ceremony-At-Westboro-Baptist-Church-Leaders-Family-Gravesite
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/pink-mass-westboro-baptist-church-gay-satanists_n_3616642.html
http://www.vice.com/read/satanists-turned-the-founder-of-the-westboro-baptist-churchs-mom-gay

Good news: North Dakota anti-choice law blocked
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/north-dakota-abortion-ban_n_3635386.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9053416/#.Ue_u6G1nB6I
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=201429
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/brian-nieves_n_3640587.html
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/06/24/2201171/texas-legislator-claims-rape-kits-are-a-form-of-abortion/

Good news: landmark sex discrimination decision in NJ Supreme Court
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/07/22/male-ups-worker-calls-out-sexism-lawsuit/

Good news: medical marijuana comes to New Hampshire
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/new-hampshire-medical-marijuana_n_3641365.html

Clown Award: Rep. Steve King of Iowa
http://dreamact.info/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/steve-king-univision_n_3623695.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/steve-king-univision_n_3626086.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/steve-king-immigrants_n_3643879.html
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/king-norquist-attacks-immigration/2013/07/18/id/515882

Outrage of the Week: McDonald's impossible "budget" for low-wage workers
http://www.alternet.org/mcdonalds-budget-employees-get-second-job-turn-your-heat
http://lowpayisnotok.org/mcdonalds/
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/mcdonalds/documents/McD_Journal2.pdf
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/12/1322231/mcdonalds-worker-one-million-hours/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/mcdonald-s-8-25-man-and-8-75-million-ceo-shows-pay-gap.html

The little thing: USC "reviewing" its policies on sexual violence on campus - 41 years after Title IX enacted
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/usc-rape-investigation_n_3607954.html
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/titleix.htm

Guns: Gun nuts protest memorial for the dead at Aurora
http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/martharosenberg/gun-lovers-will-torment-bereaved-colorado-memorial-service
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/20/colorado-aurora-shootings_n_3627813.html
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/20/aurora-theater-shooting-memorial-attracts-strange-bedfellows/#ixzz2ZzjlK7m5
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2013/07/20/aurora-no-more-names-protest/

That Rolling Stone cover