I’m sure you’re shocked, downright shocked, to hear that this story comes out of Texas.

Marlise Munoz lies in a North Texas hospital, 19 weeks pregnant but with no chance of seeing her child born.

Her husband, Erick Munoz, says a doctor told him she’s brain dead, but John Peter Smith Hospital is refusing to allow him to take her off of life support. The hospital says Texas law prohibits it from following a family directive when a pregnancy is involved, although three experts say the hospital is misreading the law in question.

[…] John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth is pointing to a provision of the Texas Advance Directives Act that reads: “A person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment under this subchapter from a pregnant patient.”

It doesn’t happen often kids, but I’m at a complete fucking loss for words. I don’t know where the hell to start.

[ABC News: Pregnant, Brain Dead Woman Kept on Life Support]

Since Nojo won’t do the Stinque Awards anymore, I  bring you the chance to tell all your other Stinquers about your favorite charities for anybody who is flush with Xmas/Festivus/Hannukah cash and/or needs to get a few more tax deductions in under the wire. I don’t judge why you’re donating, so everyone else should chime in.

Suggestion # 1:

Go to Planned Parenthood’s “directed donation” web page, and find the reddest state possible (i.e. Texas, Utah, Alabama, Arkansas, South Dakota), and request that 100% of your donation go to the Planned Parenthood affiliate that’s there. I’m a big fan of the Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas, especially Hidalgo County/Rio Grande Valley.

Suggestion # 2:

__________[fill in the blank, Stinquers]________

Title: “One Direction 2014 Calendar: 18 Month”

Rank: 96

Review: “My daughter loves it she put it up in her room immediately and is keeping track of her home school schedule with it.”

Customers Also Bought: “One Direction Life-size Stand-up Cutout- Harry”

Footnote: Shaun Cassidy is 55.

One Direction 2014 Calendar [Amazon]

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“It’s a rite of passage to have sex in Snuffleupagus.”

—Moby, speaking on the Nerdist podcast about Muppet Christmas parties.

Hearken back to 1966:

As some of you know, I’m not the best at leaving Manhattan. Or leaving the apartment for that matter. So where to go when you haven’t left Manhattan for a year? Mitsuwa, of course, in Edgewater, New Jersey. It’s a gigantic Japanese grocery store. All we had to do was catch a shuttle from the Port Authority.

The view across the Hudson from Mitsuwa’s cafeteria – lots of great stands to order from. The second first building to the right of the lamp post is Grant’s tomb.

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Title: “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”

Author: Phil Robertson

Rank: 40

Blurb: “Phil’s is the remarkable story of one man who followed the call he received from God and soon after invented a duck call that would begin an incredible journey to the life he had always dreamed of for himself and his family.”

Review: “This is a wholesome family that others would do well to learn from!”

Bonus Review: “They do not condemn others, they lift everyone around them up.”

Customers Also Bought: “Duck Dynasty Redneck Wisdom Board Game”

Footnote: Setting aside that whole Evil Fags Happy Darkies Thing, our favorite moment of the whole hullabaloo was learning that A&E fakes the bleeps to spice up the show.

Happy, Happy, Happy [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]