Suspension of Disbelief | Ain't Complicated

Choice: Women’s Bodies

What are the limits to the "choice" logic of Roe v Wade?

My Body My Choice anti-Dobbs protest placard

On this day, millions without natural affection (and millions of others) celebrate: enough Supreme Court “justices” figured out a woman can do what she wants with her body.

As a result of Roe v Wade, a girl or a woman in the United States may legally…

Sell one of her kidneys for research, transplant, or knick-knack.
Accept pay in exchange for welcoming a man into her body.
Destroy an embryo (or kill a fetus or slice up a baby) within her.

It’s her body, after all. Read it all

When Will My Throat Be Next in Its Claws?

And what will I do then? And now (to prepare)?

Hate’s strangling of
freedom of thought
continues is merciless squeeze,
gaining strength
by declaring itself to be
freedom of thought.

How long
til it seizes me
by the throat
?

Reuters and Truth

Reuters says much of the federal government is shut down. Right.

I was taking a break from work while I waited for my computer to update and reboot when I saw on Reuters (HT: Google News) that much of the US government is shuttered. 😯

Seriously? I thought it was only 17%. 😳 Reuters? Are Cowan and Reid stretching things?

Or maybe there’s a subliminal message intended:

Non-essential personnel were furloughed.
That’s “much of the U.S. government.”

Maybe that’s the explanation. 🙄 Richard? Tim? Am I on the right track? 😉

Well, here’s my screen capture of the report in question: Read it all

Weapons-Grade Assault Food

I've led a sheltered life -- I had no idea.

First of all, I’ve led a sheltered life — I had no idea about triangular pancakes. 😳

Second of all, what’s to keep the aggressive “non-lambs” from cutting their altered flapjacks back into weapons-grade assault triangles? 😯

Third of all, here’s the story as I copied and pasted it: Read it all

A Peace Offer I Don’t Know About

President Carter asserts that all Arab nations have offered peace to Israel. Oh? When? Where?

Former President Carter asserts in a USA Today piece:

Based on this same basic formula, all Arab nations have offered peace to Israel.

Statehood key to renew peace talks

They have?! 😯

I wonder when that was.

Do you know?

Kenneth Miller Convicted!

A pastor from Virginia was convicted Tuesday of helping a woman flee the country three years ago, when she was on the brink of having to turn custody of her young daughter over to the woman who was once her partner in a Vermont civil union.

The jury issued its verdict against the Rev. Kenneth Miller after several hours of deliberations in the case, Read it all

Do Videos Lie?

“I have a soft spot in my head for slug buses,” I commented to Ruby yesterday.

I’d just seen an old orange VW bus zoom by our place.

I learned how to drive in a late-model VW bus (aka Combi in Mexico).

Well, how about this automotive innovation from Volkswagen? Read it all