For Your Thursday Reading Pleasure

• igotagirl: This is the Story About My Abortion [via Feministe]

• Pinko Feminist Hellcat: Hussy. Narcissist. Despot.

• Chris Haire, Boston's Weekly Dig: Guitar God Finally Plays Some Fucking Skynyrd!

• Crooked Timber: Left vs Right Pt CCLXI [via Lawyers, Guns and Money]

• Michael Tisserand, AltWeeklies.com: The New New Orleans [Disclosure: Work-related]

• A Small Victory: It's a Halloween Soda, It's a Dessert Topping, It's a Floor Wax

• Howie Kurtz, Washington Post: The Hammer Comes Down

• Obsidian Wings: Hughes Empowering Islamic Women

• Media Matters: Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down" [YOWZA!]

• Grammar.police: Battle of Shiloh

• BlondeSense: Sucking a Fishermen's Friend Could Get You Into Trouble

• Michael Bérubé: Disability and Disasters

• Mr. & Mrs. McMuffin: Bad Baby

• Fafblog: Remaining Explanations for the Widespread, Remarkably Similar Patterns of Prisoner Abuse in the U.S. Armed Forces, and the Failure of High-Ranking Officers to Report Them, Which Do Not Include the Existence of Officially-Sanctioned Torture as a Policy of the United States

• Jason Chudy, Stars and Stripes: Comic Book Heroes Team Up to Save ... MWR Dividends?