More miscelleny:
- Going out of print is the natural fate of books. Extending copyright is not helping that any.
- Person makes claim about product on blog. Company rep denies it. Person notes company web page text vindicating position. Company changes web page text, comes back, claims person misquoted web page. Person mulls the matter over a bit, then …
- Actors don’t memorize lines — they immerse themselves in their characters, such that their next line flows naturally from the situation or cue. I imagine that works better when the writer and director are halfway decent.
- The best article — by William Saletan — I’ve read in years on the abortion issue, and how the pro-choice side can win — by declaring war on abortion.
- How much do you know about Separation of Church and State? Take the quiz. The average score is 12; I got an 18.
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I scored an 18 on that test also. I missed 13, 14 and 15.
Clinton wanted to take exactly this approach to abortion. Oh, how they hated him; the president who wanted abortion to be ’safe, legal, and rare’ and appointed JoyceLyn Elders as Surgeon General. We are going to have to get over our squeamishness about penises and semen and teens carrying condoms if we want to take that practical ‘war on abortion’ approach.
Yuppers. But that “S/L/R” attitude is exactly how I feel about it.
The point of the article, though, is that we have to get beyond that squeamishness, yes, but we also have to get beyond the “abortion is just about removing a bit of tissue.” That just isn’t how most folks feel about it, rightly or wrongly, and so attempts to make that the driving argument as to why abortion is “okay” founder on that gut instinct — whereas attempts to argue that the state is better able to judge than a woman what is best for her founder on another gut instinct, the sense that nobody wants to find themselves (or their sister, mother, daughter, whomever) in a situation where that personal choice is forestalled by criminal penalties.