Head
Games
 When
the Mayflower left England for America in 1620
three of its passengers were pregnant. One child was
born
and
lived
to a ripe old age of 81. Another died as an infant
during its first winter in this country. The third
child died stillborn.
Motherhood was a dangerous condition before modern
obstetrics practices became common as pregnant women
routinely
died of exhaustion, dehydration, infection, hemorrhage,
or
convulsions.
Good
midwives were held in high esteem, feted by their communities,
and with good reason.
Today
many people still assume that the human
race was endowed by God
with
low
child mortality
rates
when, in fact,
just the opposite is true. Women bear children in sorrow
not because Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge but because
we humans evolved massive brains which sometimes
fail to pass through the birth canal.
But these same big brains which allowed us to
imagine such fantastical creatures as gods also
allowed us to create wonders such as modern obstetrics.
(Oddly enough, there's evidence that shows the size
of the
average
brain is shrinking as a result of increasing population.
Someday we might simply squirt out like pumpkin seeds
but will be unable to solve the Sunday Jumble.)
The pro-life con game the GOP is
pandering, again, is just their usual ploy to drum
up votes for their failed party. To put it simply,
there is no such thing as "pro-life" as
it means a woman would have to try to become
pregnant
every
time she had sex. Judging by the fact that 98% of American
women have used birth control I'd say that the "pro-life"
moniker is much less relevant than Fox News would
have you believe.
"Pro-control freak" is more like it."
(Note: The
original version of this cartoon featured the
woman as the right-to-lifer, but that was wrong as
a woman should always be the advocate for safe
abortions in this kind of argument. (This error stems
from being a typically arrogant, male-centered prick.)
This has bugged
me
for a long
time so I reversed the genders today (10-17-13). Deal
with it.
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Beloved Girlfriend and I started watching HBO's The
Wire over the weekend.
As far as I know we're the last people in
America to see it. So far, it's lived up to its gritty
reputation. Looking forward to more.
We also watched Puss and Boots.
Quality animation and stellar voice work was dampened
by a script trying to be too cute. It's worth a rental but
it's not going in the permanent collection.
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Note 1: Researchers have announced
that they may be able to create an unlimited supply
of human
eggs from stem cells. THERE'S good news, pro-lifers!
Note 2: Here's one good result of
the worldwide economic recession. Italy is telling
the Vatican to pay
its taxes!
Note 3: Group claims that more
soldiers have died
by suicide than by conflict. Again, why are we
in Afghanistan?
Note 4: A human
chain of 30,000
Muscovites encircled their city center in protest
of Vladimir Putin's return as president. Too bad
we didn't do the same in Florida in 2000.
Note 5: Clint Eastwood on gay
marriage,
but he could also be talking at abortion rights.
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And now our Chart of the
Day:
Enacted Abortion Restrictions by Year (An ugly
illustration of why the GOP LOVES having
a black president. It resulted in a tidal wave
of racist reactionary voting which allowed
the Republicans to begin pushing their antediluvian
social programs.)
=Lefty=
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Republican Job Creation Update
 2-27-2012: Congress
is back in action and today they'll be considering
H.R. 4078, "The Regulatory Freeze of Jobs Act of
2012." It's worse than it sounds as its intent is
"to provide that no agency may take any
significant
regulatory action until the unemployment rate is
equal to or less than 6.0 percent." Cue the sad trombone
sound.
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