Heck of a rant on abortion: "If I ... shoot me"

After this I didn't need an afternoon nap. Thank you, Katha Pollitt, writing in the Nov. 30 issue of The Nation! Still, as a man, I'm concerned at the list of routine man things that she finds comparable to abortion. Well, it is a rant.

Reminds me of the lead essay by Jeffrey Toobin in the Nov. 23 New Yorker, which opens with news that when our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, why, abortion was "legal and commonplace." Take that, you originalists who want to go back to the early days of the Republic.

Call this censorship: no searching for abortion

From Wired via discourse.net, the always engaging blog run by UM law prof. Michael Froomkin, we learn that loyal Bushies are trying to eliminate the very word abortion. Not content with regulating it wherever possible, they made it not searchable in exactly the place where it should be.