This week, anti-abortion activists staged an eBay auction to help raise a legal defense fund for Scott Roeder, who was charged with murdering abortion provider George Tiller back in May. With the auction, anti-abortion activists were hoping to capitalize on Roeder’s newfound notoriety by selling off a series of his signed, pro-life memorabilia.

But before the items could hit the virtual auction block, eBay announced that the memorabilia would be removed from the Web site. In a statement, the company said that it would “not allow listings that promote or glorify violence, hate, racial or religious intolerance, or items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity.”

St. Louis cartoonist Gary McCoy had a more personal beef with the auction: It totally ripped off his work.

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Newspaper stories from the good old days say the darndest things. This time on journalism’s way-back machine: an 1870’s defense attorney argues that a man can’t be held responsible for killing his estranged wife’s lover—because, let’s be honest, she was kind of a ho.

This Week In Sexist History:

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Newspaper stories from the good old days say the darndest things. So every week on the Sexist, let’s take a ride on journalism’s way-back machine, to a time when recently decapitated Arabian women competed for ink with adorably mischievous train-track terriers!

This Week In Sexist History, a double billing:

followed by:

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Newspaper stories from the good old days say the darndest things. So every week on the Sexist, let’s take a ride on journalism’s way-back machine, to a time when all female behavior could be explained away simply. Sure, turn-of-the-century journos called it “insanity,” “mania,” or “hysteria,” but we know the real diagnosis: She’s a crazy bitch.

According to historical Washington Post archives, August is a banner month for crazy bitches. But there’s a quick solution for any late-summer onset of the vapors, whether it’s from the heat, a cheatin’ man, or a too-full pocket book: oh, just throw her in the insane asylum! (The therapeutic pelvic massage comes later).

Diagnosis: It’s hot.

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By all media accounts, Meghan McCain was “schooled,” “taken to task,” “murdered,” “crucified,” and “pwned” by Paul Begala on Real Time With Bill Maher over the weekend. Let’s go to the tape!

As you can see, Begala schooled, punished, crucified and murdered McCain in some sort of live televised pornographic snuff film! Given the creepy terminology the media’s been throwing around here, I’m surprised no one has referred to the exchange as a “spanking” yet. Oh wait, yeah, somebody did.
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Meet Aaron P. Taylor. He recently moved to Washington, D.C., and he totally understands what you’re going through—particularly if you are a rapist! (Ladies, he’s single).

Last week, after returning from a disappointing dancing session in da club, where Taylor learned some harsh lessons about love, loss, and getting totally shut down by a hot girl, Taylor had a lot to think about. So he sat down at his computer and carefully compiled his thoughts in an entry on his blog, “UnCommoN SENSE with Aaron P. Taylor.” The entry, “Advice 4 Women: How to NOT Get a ‘Deserved Raping,’” was a quick primer on how girls might avoid doing things that would lead them to be responsible for their own rapes (the riddle of undeserved rapes yet to be deciphered by Aaron P. Taylor).

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Welcome to another edition of “Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back,” wherein Mike Riggs and I evade the gotcha media to provide you our highly-edited, barely-rehearsed talking points on sex, media, and politics (but mostly sex). Today, presidential debate celebrity Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher inspired us to spend five minutes* on the subject of plumbin’ in America. With us, as always, is plucky City Paper intern Bobby Allyn.

Topics discussed: William F. Buckley Jr., murder, Facebook relationship status, real Americans, exploitation, boredom.

Catch up on last week’s podcast here.

* not actually five minutes