many things, some of which have a plan
Apr. 8th, 2011 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishPhantoms in the Snow:
Everything I Know I Learned At A Very Expensive University: of more than passing relevance to the current budget "debate".
Unicomp now has a keyboard designed specifically for Mac. Bother. Anyone interested in buying a barely-used Space Saver 104?
With our powers combined, we are...
Zarf is inevitably... drawn into the games-and-art thing.
We're all aware that the government is about to be shut down over stuff that has no business being in a budget fight, right? Bastards.
(I generally don't listen to the radio unless I'm waiting for the traffic report to come on WTOP. Is that godawful "97% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortions!" ad typical for them? Because I am perfectly capable of raising my blood pressure in traffic all on my own, and don't need any help from the radio.)
ETA: And of course, pervvalkyri it turns out that the ad is not only false but entirely backwards. Tripe like this reduces me to incoherent frothing rage in short order. WHY IS THIS EVEN AN ISSUE I JUST DON'T ARRRRGH.
(Misleading source for misleading 97% number in ad.)
I dunno. I seem to have hit a depressive slump for most of March. I'm kind of dragging myself out of it now but it's slow going.
Off to Blacksburg this afternoon to say my goodbyes to the place. Yeah, last weekend would have been better, but scheduling intervened.
Everything I Know I Learned At A Very Expensive University: of more than passing relevance to the current budget "debate".
Unicomp now has a keyboard designed specifically for Mac. Bother. Anyone interested in buying a barely-used Space Saver 104?
With our powers combined, we are...
Zarf is inevitably... drawn into the games-and-art thing.
We're all aware that the government is about to be shut down over stuff that has no business being in a budget fight, right? Bastards.
(I generally don't listen to the radio unless I'm waiting for the traffic report to come on WTOP. Is that godawful "97% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortions!" ad typical for them? Because I am perfectly capable of raising my blood pressure in traffic all on my own, and don't need any help from the radio.)
ETA: And of course, per
vvalkyri it turns out that the ad is not only false but entirely backwards. Tripe like this reduces me to incoherent frothing rage in short order. WHY IS THIS EVEN AN ISSUE I JUST DON'T ARRRRGH.(Misleading source for misleading 97% number in ad.)
I dunno. I seem to have hit a depressive slump for most of March. I'm kind of dragging myself out of it now but it's slow going.
Off to Blacksburg this afternoon to say my goodbyes to the place. Yeah, last weekend would have been better, but scheduling intervened.
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Date: 2011-04-08 10:37 pm (UTC)I'd like to add, though, that to be pro-life (or anti-abortion, however you want to phrase it) is not an issue of not understanding the issue "well enough." That is with the caveat, however, that there are LOTS AND LOTS of people who truly don't understand all of the facets of complicated pregnancies and are extremely rude about it to boot. But there are just as many people who are informed, rational, and educated who do choose the anti-abortion platform. They are, sadly, the quieter ones.
I'll throw in my agreement as well that the 97% stat is completely misleading and I am very annoyed by it. Specifically because it does not include the women who went ahead and had their babies and kept them. I don't like data manipulation. Period.