Blog for One

According to MSNBC:

South Dakota legislature attacks Roe vs. Wade

State prepares to pass bill banning all abortions except to save mom’s life.

A direct attack on Roe v. Wade is coming from the South Dakota legislature. The new bill, which outlaws abortion, makes no exceptions, not for a pregnancy caused by incest or rape. It would only be legal—the only exception if it would save the pregnant woman’s life.

Doctors who perform abortions could face up to five years in prison. The bill passed the State Senate 23-12. It’s expected to pass the House again and then go to Governor Mike Rounds’ desk. The bill’s sponsor says he thinks the antiabortion movement has momentum on its side and a—quote—“change in national policy on abortion is going to come in the not-too-distant future.”

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I see this as yet another form of religious law trying to worm its way into secular law. No better or worse than if we were to implement Sahria into our legal system.

Both would be very bad ideas.

Here I am with my dad in front of the clinic where I was born. I keep thinking they should put up a commemorative plaque (well maybe not)

This is the front of the house I spent my first 4 years. It’s changed now, of course. Now they sell Avon products and a bunch of other crap

My first school (pre-K)

Here’s a scary way to cook an egg using 2 cell phones, and a radio from the Wymsey Weekend Guide to Mobile Cooking.

Too much time on their hands.

From the Washington Post, an interesting article on the brouhaha arising from newspaper caricatures.

The article provides some thought-proking commentary on the 12 caricatures appearing in a Danish newspaper.
On sacrilege:
…We may cluck about the lack of freedom in Iran, but we have grown very orthodox about the way we speak of religion in our own public square. The curious thing about sacrilege is that it very often strengthens true religion as much as it reaffirms the right to challenge it.
The closing paragraph proposes an interesting theory.
So perhaps these cartoons really do crystallize why Islam and the West are incompatible and must hunker down for a “long war.” The only other option, it seems, is to remember that if vastly different worldviews can find no accommodation on a subject, then perhaps it’s too early, in human history, to have the conversation.

Interesting in that it reminds me of old Star Trek episodes where the crew lands on a “primitive civilization”. How odd to find that this primitive civilization is, indeed, all of us.

It marks Patti’s semi-centennial birthday.

Or would that be demi-centennial?