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Whoopsies.

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:27:40 GMT

Jeff Jacoby says: 'I know men, and manliness, and that's no man.'

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:48:05 GMT

Check out this piece about the pregnant man in the Boston Globe. He proceeds to compare Thomas Beatie's pregnancy with incest and forcible polygamy. He also seems quite upset that at one point, Thomas Beatie was an attractive woman who participated in pageants. That actually is more abhorrent to me than the pregnant man thing. Pageants give me the creeps.

Ass Hat.

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:41:37 GMT

Jeff Jacoby is an ass hat. He wrote a highly reprehensible op-ed piece in the Boston Globe yesterday about sex selection abortions. His question is "How exactly are American women empowered when abortion is deployed to prevent the existence of American girls?" He then proceeds to regurgitate a lot of statistics about how prevalent sex selection abortions are in countries like Vietnam, India and China. When he finally gets around to mentioning these kinds of abortions in the US, the numbers seem suspicious:

"Almond and Edlund examined the ratio of boys to girls among US children born to Chinese, Korean, and Indian parents. For the first children of these Asian-American families, the sex ratio was the normal 1.05-to-1. But when the first baby is a girl, the odds of the second being a boy rose to 1.17-to-1. After two sisters, the likelihood of the third being a son leaped to 1.51-to-1. This is clear "evidence of sex selection, most likely at the prenatal stage," the authors write. Prenatal sex tests for pregnant women are now available earlier, more cheaply, and more conveniently than ever, "raising the prospect of sex selection becoming more widely practiced in the near future."

Am I wrong in thinking that the likelihood that people that have mulitple children are more likely to have boys somewhere in there? Plus, it would be completely wrong to legislate one kind of abortion and not another. With abortion, there is always moral ambiguitiy which should be left to the person having the abortion to decide. Trust women to make the choice that is right for them. He concludes with:

"But nothing can excuse such abortions in the United States - nothing except the theology of "choice," which elevates the right to an abortion above all other considerations. You don't have to be a feminist to know that being a girl is not a birth defect, or to be horrified by a practice that lethally reinforces the most benighted forms of sexual discrimination. For what kind of feminist would it be who could contemplate the use of abortion to eliminate ever-greater numbers of girls, and not cry out in horror?"

I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that at least half of the abortions performed are probably girls. It doesn't make me horrified, or irate, or anything really. It makes me grateful that I live in a country where I have the right to choose, for whatever reason, to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. The right to an abortion should be elevated above moral ambiguity. After all, we do live in the "Land of the Free" except for women, minorities, and the poor I mean.

This gave me a hoot!

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:13:29 GMT

Thank you Kate Harding

The Shape of Things

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:08:26 GMT

I went to see a local production of Neil Labute's "The Shape of Things" tonight. It was wonderful. For those of you who don't know Mr. Labute's work, I highly recommend checking it out. He's incredibly gritty and excels in showing the disturbing side of human behavior.

Rev. Wright tells of the NY Times

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:09:37 GMT

Check it out!

Always look on the bright side of life!

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:31:39 GMT

I've been working hard to keep above the fray lately. The political world has worked itself into a frenzy, Iraq is exploding, Pakistan is looking grim, large chunks of Antarctica are falling off into the ocean, my car gets crappy gas mileage, soon we'll all be homeless and celebrities keep going to rehab. Sometimes it's a little too much to process. Which is why I've spent the evening watching sitcoms and figure skating, and not a documentary about the Dalai Lama as originally intended. It's like eating ice cream when you know you should be having vegetables. I love it.

Check it out.

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:05:34 GMT

Yes. This NY Times article.

U.S. of Men

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:03:50 GMT

toothpastefordinner.com

Torture you say?

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:45:07 GMT

I like this response to whether or not tortured confessions should be admissable in court from the LA Times.