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  • The November Election Post I’ve Been Meaning To Write

    Election day is right around the corner, and I’ve been meaning to do a post on all of the Constitutional amendments that are on the ballot this November…but I’ve been a little busy. After 5 years together, my beloved Ellyn and I got hitched back on October 11th. Needless to say, the wedding plans took…

  • Misunderstanding “Planning”

    There seems to be, either a fundamental, or intentional misunderstanding of the word “planning”. Planning is what you do when you know the potential consequences of your actions. Planning is taking that knowledge, and moving forward to either prevent, or ensure a specific outcome. The absence of planning makes one a slave to unintended consequences.…

  • Defining Anti-Choice

    I don’t get emails from people challenging the words I use, well, ever, but just the other day I did receive the following email from someone who apparently didn’t want to comment on the post. Upon reading your article “Chickens and Eggs and Calls to Murder,” I wanted to bring a particular point to your…

  • Chickens and Eggs and Calls to Murder

    “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, as the old question goes. If you’re a radical anti-choice/anti-contraception advocate, the egg is the same thing as a chicken. It’s being called the ”personhood strategy”, and the language is pretty broad. From the proposed ballot language: “the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being from…

  • If Someone Did, Would it Help the Movement?

    I’ve been thinking, and reading a lot about the assassination or Dr. Tiller in Kansas last week and activities of Operation Rescue and other anti-choice groups. As a collective, their rhetoric, strategy and tactics are nothing new. They’ve been doing this for a long time. The tenor of their rhetoric is, perhaps, the only real…

  • It’s Time for Action – Part 2

    Fighting What the Fight is Really About or The Barbarism of Subterfuge This is part 2 of a 3 part post. Part 1 can be found here What about SJR127? The truth is, SJR127 is a Trojan horse, being rolled into the state constitution that would allow the state to make a determination on your…