Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

Random musings on whatever catches my attention that day

David F

Life Begins at Birth

Here's a gorgeous refutation of all the phony arguments anti-choice zealots make against abortion. It was put forth as a Twitter thread by SF author Patrick Tomlinson. You can read a great account of it here http://www.scarymommy.com/patrick-s-tomlinson-twitter-abortion/ But, allow me to summarize. One single question…

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David F

Apples and Bananas

Did you watch Raffi music videos once upon a time? I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGipCcxUkrM Well who ever thought apples and bananas would further highlight the garbage fire that is our polity now, in 2017? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ei_sZyvHxs How SAD! it is now that an ad like this needs…

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David F

Falling In and Out

Listening to Pandora, I get this song in the random play-list quite often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDh5wFwjBIs Well, not all of it - just the first of the three tracks. Maddening! I can't even thumbs-down it, because I like the band and I like the album. I don't…

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David F

F* the BSA. Seriously.

Tom Pennington/Getty Images for NY Times The NYT ran a story today that puts the lie (again!) to all the surface, meaningless, cosmetic moves the Boy Scouts of America have been making to try to overcome the PR penalties of being the sexist, homophobic, theocratic…

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David F

"Elitist"

This is a very sad story showing the state of the polity. No matter how much information we give you, you would never write a fair piece,” Liz Bowman, a spokeswoman for the E.P.A., said in an email. “The only thing inappropriate and biased is your…

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