What. ("things I notice while checking my Yahoo mail" edition)

Abortion doc George Tiller gunned down at church

WICHITA, Kan. - The attorney for George Tiller says the late-term abortion provider was shot and killed at his church in Wichita, Kan.

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The clinic run by the 67-year-old doctor has repeatedly been the site of protests for about two decades.

A protester shot Tiller in both arms in 1993, and his clinic was bombed in 1985.

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Let's play the happy fun game, Who Needs Logic When You Have An Imaginary Friend Telling You What To Do?

Major premise: Murder is wrong.
Minor premise: Abortion is murder.
Conclusion: Murdering abortion doctors is right.

Somewhere, Aristotle is sobbing incoherently from beyond the grave.

Good on Tiller, though. He got bombed and shot and still kept at it.

I think it a fundamental goal of the highest importance that no child ever be forced into existence without there being sufficient love and support present to give that child a decent shot at life. Once there are no more children starving to death because their families just can't scrape together enough to feed them, fine. Once there are no more unwanted children languishing until adulthood in an impersonal foster system, good. Once every family has enough money, and every woman sufficiently good health, that having a child is not a dangerous proposition, excellent. Then let's talk of outlawing abortion. But while there are still women who will go dead if they try to carry to term? While there are still little children who legally cannot be hugged by their guardians unless the children initiate that hug, because nobody wants to adopt said children when they can just crap out their own? How damned selfish do you have to be to declare your morals more important than the happiness or continued lives of people, not hypothetical future poor widdle dead bay-bees, but actual people who exist and are suffering today? What the hell, man?


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(That whole "go to jail if you hug the lonely orphans" thing still freaks me out, but it's at least true for emotionally-not-right-in-the-head kids in Indiana. I bet the person I know who used to work at a group home, and thus be subject to the law in question, would know like the actual statute number or something. I should ask her.)

PS:

We saw the new Star Trek movie last night. I guess the people who liked it also think that what the command center of a spaceship needs is more tiny, bright spots of light, to dazzle the eyes of all who are trying to view the instruments and control panels.

Also: Nokia will exist and still have the distinctive Nokia ringtone 200 years from now.

At least Simon Pegg is awesome.