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2020 may be full of horrible news, but the ridiculous continues despite all that's going on around the world. Here are ten stories that spread this week,

Originally published on July 7, 2021 5:44 pm In 1873, Congress passed a law outlawing the distribution, sale, mailing and possession of "obscene" materials — including contraception. The Comstock Act, as it became known, was named after Anthony Comstock, an anti-vice crusader who later became a special agent to the U.S. Post Office, giving him the power to enforce the law. In her new book, The Man Who Hated Women, author Amy Sohn writes about Comstock — as well as eight women charged wit...