Camp!

http://campnanowrimo.org/campers/j-somebody

It shouldn't be pro life or pro choice yet

Here's where I lose friends,  respect,  and any chance at running for political office.

Abortion isn't a woman's issue. That's like saying gun violence in an ER doctor issue. Unwanted pregnancy doesn't often come from women. (The exception being, perhaps,  when pregnancy endangers the life of the mother or the health of the baby. Still, that's no more a woman's issue than lung cancer is! ) So,  instead of talking about effects,  how about addressing cause?

Seriously, what if words like rape and incest were ones you had to get a dictionary to figure out? Could straight men be convinced not to cause unwanted pregnancy? What if that were the conversation instead. Get that issue under control. Then,  once that crime gets as rare around America as the black plague,  THEN we can have a conversation about abortion. See how many are left. As a reminder,  no,  men don't get free birth control. However,  no prescription is needed to buy condoms, which are sold all over. The non-latex ones have almost zero side effects.

I'd love to hear politicians discuss this. I doubt that'll happen in my lifetime. It'll just be back and forth about the effect, and never touch the cause.

AtoZ Challenge After-party

On reflection, this was fun! I hope to do it again next year.

Write Club 2015

I know I'm looking forward to this! How about you?

Zipping up with Z

Why Yes I am Giddy about Y

Alaska-Yukon Moose

X is eXtra hard

I knew what X animal I had when I took the pics. I thought that this was the X one, for the name of the region it hails from. But that's a Bongo from Africa.


Maybe I got a picture of an X-Ray Tetra, which is a small species of schooling fish that is naturally found in the Amazon River's coastal waters.