Amanda gets it right (again!)

As usual, Amanda at Pandagon has said everything I wanted to say much, much better than I could. I've got nothing to add. Go read it.

The Supreme Court decision from yesterday is just another in a series of federal pandering to a minority of organized misogynists who have a hard-on for dismantling women’s health care. The anti-choice track record speaks for itself...

I really do strongly urge everyone to read her piece. Especially if you don't understand why some people are really upset about this Supreme Court ruling.

Obligatory Kurt Vonnegut Post

As you all know by now, Kurt Vonnegut has shuffled off this mortal coil. But he did make a request that I'd like to honor:

I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, "Isaac is up in heaven now." It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke.

So. Kurt is up in heaven now.

Also, Dom sent me this quote which I totally love:

God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.