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Yes, I'm biased, but I actually really do like Bing. Dorky ass name, but IMHO, really useful. Kudos to the folks who assembled it.

And in other company news... Hi, Paul and Ringo? That's pretty damned amazing.


In Texty news, I'm rather sore today from yesterday's adventures, so I'm hanging out here at the villa, despite it having so little in the way of cooling options. At least most of the windows are north-facing, so the back of the place is relatively cool. I'll probably start being constructive later when it cools off a little more. The place has become a bit of a pit since we've been spending so much time/energy working on the house and have so little left to pick up after the cats (and our slobby selves) here at the domicile.

Just for the record

These? Are amazing. Especially with some soft cheese squished on them. A bit messy, but oh, so tasty.

*nom*

Crazy people with guns

Yes, this is political, and should be on my other journal, but I wanted to weigh in on the Dr. Tiller shooting.

For the record, right off the top, I want to emphasize that I believe every case of abortion is unique, and thus the choice to have one should be entirely up to the posessor of the uterus in question. No one should be forced to use their body to sustain some other life, and that goes equally whether the other life is someone in need of a bone marrow transplant or a fetus in its host's uterus. This is most definitely not a decision that can be made by random lawmakers or judges or laypeople. The responsibilities parents have to their children after they're no longer physically attached are matters of law, yes, but bodily integrity is just not something you go messing with, and that's why the owner of a given uterus has total control over what happens to it.

That said...

What has me so pissed off about this shooting, and about the late-term abortion debate in and of itself, is that it's entirely predicated on lies and myths about what late-term abortions really are.

These are not "convenience" abortions, folks. They are not some woman just blithely deciding in her 32nd week that she doesn't want to be pregnant anymore. They are, in virtually every case, extremely traumatic decisions that must be made to deal with a pregnancy that has gone horribly wrong.

( The More You Know )