An increase in hate crimes during election season at Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture

Just reposting the link. Read and see how ignorance hurts everybody.

Last-minute Bush abortion ruling causes furor – International Herald Tribune:

A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the government agency that enforces job-discrimination laws.

I have no words except this, it is not a doctor’s job to JUDGE a person’s morality when it comes to providing healthcare. Morality is not the concern of doctors and other healthcare workers. I believe strongly in a woman’s right to CHOOSE. Our social welfare system is already straining under the weight of babies and children born to parents who are not prepared emotionally, physically or economically to be parents. I’m also for teaching our children the truth about sex and how to be responsible for keeping yourself healthy and safe, not for only teaching that one shouldn’t have sex at all.  The forbidden always sounds much more fun than waiting.

Did some tweaks to the sidebars, and have added new header images to the theme.

The new Overlords :

Jazz is the teeny fluff of gray, Sansa is the calico and her sister is Oryx, the tabby. Jazz is Queen of the Overlords, if such a thing is possible?

Two of my headers are from personal photographs and the others are from various places on the Net, so all credit goes to the original photographers. All I did was crop them to fit.

Also added a new toy: Abbey Links. It’s my lifestream, everything I link or post to the Net.

Also pondering switching my gallery to NextGen Gallery and moving my custom pages to WP for easy management and one spot to manage them.

whisperwords: Sarah Palin

This post sums up some of the points to ponder re: Sarah Palin and her being chosen as VP by John McCain.

Just because someone is a woman, does not mean that I, as a woman, should vote for her. I vote based on ideas, not on skin color or gender. And if that makes all the difference to you as to what set of genitals someone has or what color someone is, then, really, I have no sympathy for your plight.

Have done some minor housekeeping here, with cleaning up posts and tags, and also researching an easier to use layout for my main site.+

Will be updating my recs pages as I have time, now that school is back in session and I have my days free.  I have a backlog of fics to read and rec from quite few fandoms, including my newest one, Iron Man.

Title: As Easy As This

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII

Rating: PGish, suggestive but not explicit

Pairing: Aeris/Zach/Cloud/Sephiroth

Author: cleflink @ LJ

Link

Why Should One Read This?: Super happy fixit fic. 

Shakesville: Get your Bingo cards ready!

I thought that Wil’s original post was funny. Am I bad feminist for thinking that honestly, there should be somebody telling Sen. Clinton about the law of diminishing returns? I would love to have a woman President in the Oval Office, just not Sen. Clinton.

I want new ideas, not genitalia to determine who I’m voting for.

The Prowl Log

Chaucer meets Transformers. I’m so not kidding y’all. This is kick-ass.