THE PHILIPPINES, STILL: Horrors persist six days after Typhoon Haiyan cut through the archipelago at 195 miles per hour. Corpses are piling up due to a shortage of body bags while young women are increasingly vulnerable to sexual assault. “We are failing thousand of girls at risk of rape and trafficking,” one official told the Telegraph. Aid convoys are stuck up at airports, unable to reach now-homeless families in makeshift shelters, while some 2 million people need food. Still, the country’s Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras says the government is handling the situation “quite well.” The official death toll is 2,200 and climbing daily.
Help: Here’s Charity Navigator’s directory of relief organizations.
Crucial Boeing Machinist Vote Today: Will they capitulate to a shitty deal?
Moar Freewayz! Ben Schiendelman at Seattle Transit Blog has the scoop on a $12 billion proposal that “reduces bike/ped funding further, and adds new highway projects, including a massive [Joint Base Lewis-McChord military base] interchange that likely includes widening I-5, and dozens of other highway expansions.”
Are Journalists Prohibited from Being “Bad at Math”? That’s this guy’s dumm argument, even though journalists outsource for expertise on everything—including some math. That’s the job.
Obamacare Numbers: The Obama administration had projected 500,000 people to sign up or private plans by now. Instead? Just about 100,000.
A Left Hook at Obamacare: Blue-state Democrats, including California’s Diane Feinstein, are signing onto a bill that would prevent health insurers from kicking people off shitty policies that don’t meet new standards for good insurance.
That Woman Who Became the Face of the Fucked Up Obamacare Website? It turns out she’s kinda pissed.
Life Without Parole? For these crimes? No fucking way. Way.
Who’s Talking About States’ Rights Now? The NAACP, saying that despite “a historic hesitancy about states’ right causes” the Feds should allow the states legalize pot with impunity.
Border Searches or Rapes? It was rape, says yet another cavity-search victim who was crossing the border in New Mexico. She’s one of three recent victims of drug-searches-turned-sexual assault. And yet again, officials didn’t find drugs: