Ugh. I've been fighting idiots at the NY Review of Books. We need a reproductive-rights-discussion corollary of Godwin's Law -- the longer any such discussion goes on, the probability of someone saying, "Some people don't believe fetuses are human? Some people used to not believe that slaves were human either" approaches one.
And they always say it with this triumphant, patronizing, now-I-have-all-the-moral-high-ground-and-I-just-kicked-your-science-and-logic-in-the-nuts tone that just makes me want to reach back in time and kick their goddamn grandfather in the nuts. Both their grandfathers, just to be on the safe side. And I'm a crunchy pacifist Jesus freak!
a slave could survive outside of the womb. let's test out the zygote.
Wait, I believe fetuses are human. I just don't believe they're people.
Wait, I believe fetuses are human. I just don't believe they're people.
Right. They're no good for soylent green.
I'm willing to believe they are human and people (though certainly not independent people) and abortion is bad (which I DO believe all of those things) and STILL believe that I don't have to right to regulate anyone else's body!
I have a class with all of the African-American kids in it. They were looking at a stump speech from Rick Santorum today and discussing Ron Paul stating that universal education should not be mandatory especially funded by the government. One kid, A, said he agreed with Ron Paul. I said I found it ironic that an African American kid, who 170 years ago would have been denied any possibility of getting an education, was perfectly happy giving his up.
Made everyone else in his group gape.
A guy here who shot his lover's husband is contending he was told to kill by six-foot-tall demons who looked and sounded like Barry White and Olivia Newton-John [link]
OMG, I'm listening to a developer struggle with at least his second language over a poor connection about something that's too technical for me to be able to grasp entirely even if it was orated by Stephen Fry. But we're so far away from that...
I'm tempted to put them on mute and watch Vampire Diaries. At least that way I'll be awake?
A guy here who shot his lover's husband is contending he was told to kill by six-foot-tall demons who looked and sounded like Barry White and Olivia Newton-John
Well, if you're going for an insanity plea, might as well go all out on the insanity.
Demons and angels, Ginger. Which makes me wonder...which was which?
