Adoption: Not A Magic Pill to Stop Abortion

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Friday February 24, 2006 · 4:32 AM PST

2006/02/24 · 04:32

You'll hear a lot of wingnuts decry abortion. You'll hear them say that promoting adoptions is part of the "solution" to ending abortions. You'll hear them promote adoption as though it's some Magic Pill anyone can take to resolve their pregnancy problems. To listen to some people, adoption is the end-all, be-all, most wonderful thing ever, because adoption makes for perfect families, sweeps those troublesome unwed mothers under the mat, and creates a shiny happy rose-tinted world.

That's because they don't know what they're talking about.

Adoption is not the "solution" to the abortion-rights problem. In fact, as a solution, adoption has the potential to destroy many more lives, for a number of reasons. This diary elaborates on what I see as the main counterargument to adoption as the Magic Pill That Will End All Abortion. I also see it as the main danger to adoption as a solution to anything--that adoption in this country tends to be run as a business, not as a service. And kids aren't its only victims. Read More

Bush the Raven: "Nevermore"

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 11:05 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 23:05

(apologies to Poe)

Once upon a day so dreary, while I waited, weak and weary,
Over many a sharp and spurious network show of spin and bore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone rudely rapping, rapping at the Chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "rapping at the Chamber door;
Only this and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember, it was after bleak December,
Aft' each separate aye-vote Member wrought Alito 'pon the Floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
Filibuster votes--no! Sorrow! Sorrow for the losing score.
For the rare and radiant cloture which we had the losing score,
Splitting here forevermore. Read More

Constitutional Crisis? Only if it makes you filibuster.

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Monday January 16, 2006 · 1:44 PM PST

2006/01/16 · 13:44

Don't get me wrong. I love Al Gore. I loved him in 1992. I loved him despite, or maybe because of, that macarena thing. I loved his debates, I loved his "creation of the internets." I loved him on that horrible night in 2000, I loved his lawsuit, I loved him through the recounts, the beard (rowr), the recent speeches. Really, you just have to love the guy.

He's highly intelligent, highly principled, very concerned about almost everything I consider a big huge deal when it comes to voting for someone to represent me.

I love him, but he's wrong. There's no constitutional crisis going on here.

Though if saying it would make a filibuster of ScAlito more likely... Read More

Apologies to Dr Seuss... (+POLL)

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Friday December 23, 2005 · 8:00 AM PST

2005/12/23 · 08:00

Everyone down in Bush-ville liked Freedom a lot,
But the Bush, who lived in Northwest DC, did not!
The Bush hated Freedom! Our rights he was freezin'!
Now, please don't ask why. It's depressing, the reason.

It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that he wasn't too bright.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small. Read More

'Twas the Day for No-Cloture (Christmas Series, Day III)

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Friday December 16, 2005 · 1:25 PM PST

2005/12/16 · 13:25

'Twas the day for no-cloture,
Or least for the vote,
And the Senators prepared,
Their speeches they wrote

The chamber lay waiting
For action to start,
For the pros and the cons to
Their wisdom impart

And Frist in his big chair,
Spector on defense,
It was no wonder the
Feeling was tense Read More

'Twas the Night Before Voting (Christmas Series, Day II)

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Thursday December 15, 2005 · 11:46 AM PST

2005/12/15 · 11:46

'Twas the Night before Voting
And all 'round the Hill
Not a Congressman working
Could avoid The Bill,

Approved by House We'n'sday
By seventy-some votes,
Patriot Act Renewal
Had caused no few gloats

From Washington Repubs
Who liked it just fine,
And White House insiders
Who found it divine.
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'Twas the War Against Christmas (Christmas Series, Day I)

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Wednesday December 14, 2005 · 4:40 PM PST

2005/12/14 · 16:40

'Twas the War Against Christmas,
All over the land,
No one could escape it--
The foxholes were mann'd.

The soldiers were squeezed in,
Tighter than sardines,
All dressed in defiant
Bright reds and bright greens. Read More

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