Abortion

I try not to discuss abortion because its spiritual dimension is unrevealed to me.

I will observe that it seems to me to be a particularly cruel and emotionally draining form of birth control. I will make what I think is a practical observation. Laws forbidding abortion create two classes of affected women. Rich girls fly off to Switzerland. Poor girls are found in the  alleys.

Thailand is not the United States, but a grisly report illustrates the problem.  
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In Search of Class

TMR tends toward the rustic. Guns made of steel and walnut.  Dead oak trees turned  into fuel. Barely sentient critters such as politicians and leopard frogs.

This sometimes shames me, and I yield to the urge to offer urbane content.

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Government Gropers

An idle thought: Once in a while you'll still see a woman tastefully dressed in tightish skirt. So, when she opts out of pornscan, how does the TSA manage its 360-degree grope of each leg?

The Sentient Pistol

Tam has a piece on a Virginia nincompoop who shot himself while groping in his pocket for beer money. The judge rapped him and ordered his Glock destroyed.

Punish the gun. Fine idea. Damned guns can get willful.

I recall, but can't find, a  c. 1968 Chicago Tribune cartoon by St. Bill Mauldin. An enraged mob is watching a handgun in a noose, hanging from a gallows or lamp post. The thug in the foreground chuckles, "They decided to let me go and lynch my gun."