For this week's paper, I wrote a cover story on one young woman's crusade to secure a rape kit after she believed she had been drugged and raped at a college party. The D.C. police response to the woman's case illustrates how District rape victims can be dismissed as liars, drunks, or otherwise unworthy of [...]

* Jezebel debunks the debunkers of the rumors facts of Palin's rape kit debacle.
* Meghan McCain at McCain Blogette has posted another election playlist. McCain writes that she creates "playlists for almost every interesting experience," but doesn't identify exactly what that interesting experience is this time. What could the combination of David Bowie's "Golden Years," [...]