Restrictions on a woman’s reproductive health are counterproductive

Care

Want more abortions? Deny women basic health care and contraception. It really is that easy.

When, and where, that women can get basic health care, matters. Community clinics, including Planned Parenthood prevent abortion in numbers far greater than any so called “right to life” group. Please keep in mind the phrase “right to life” describes and advocates for, only a narrow band of embryonic, and more rarely, fetal, human life.

The life of the whole planet, born and unborn, can go to burning hell. At least, that appears to be their plan…

Wild thing

After being gone a month on the road, I finally got a razor in my hand and shaved off the soft, fine fuzz on my legs. It was a big job, and took longer than the routine, maintenance shaving that I normally do when we’re living in a real house.

Maybe there’s a reason the camera never captured Francis McDormand’s close-up leg shots in Nomadland. Whatever. The hair on my legs made me feel bad, and decidedly unsexy.

It got me thinking. …

Selling the goods

No doubt you have already heard about the scourge of microplastics. You understand that our over-packaging, and mass transport, distribution, and our food-ways, are producing so much plastic waste that researchers now find tiny fragments in our water, soil, and food. Big plastic bits kill animals and plants, and destroys scenery. But the smaller bits — more insidiously — are everywhere, in almost everything. They break down into microcontaminants that affect everything from our forests to our inner microbiome, from our infrastructure, to our endocrine systems.

People want to be good. They try to reduce plastic bag usage, avoid plastic…

Being a human in the world means we are infected with "racism." Denial does not help, but recognition of this problem does help. Skin color is not a factor, because people come in every color: Pope, president, petty criminal, police. No tar, just fact.

We cannot have racism around us and "not be racist." Systemic means everywhere. But we can admit there is a real issue and only then address it.

In Nazi Germany, only those Germans/others, who saw what people are capable of came to fix it. It's the same with all human inability to see our flaws.

Road worrier

We have land and a tiny home in the Cascades. We traveled for the month of July. The day after we left, triple digits charred the Pacific Northwest. The BC town of Lytton burned. A few people died, but billions and billions of plants, animals, and many interconnected species perished, too.

My heart was broken, and wobbled like the helicopters over our camp in Idaho that dump water over the smoldering land.

When I returned, just days ago, I expected to find the heatwave had crisped every scrap of green. No. Nature is miraculous in her forgiveness and resilience. Not…

(I know it’s an old Simpson’s joke but I still LOVE it so much!)

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of taxes
yet not paid my crews with wads as fat as mine
Sunward I’ve climbed, — dropped some pink slip axes
And done douchey things, some sore, and some benign

…You have not dreamed of. But now my cowboy hat is hung,
High in the starlit silence amid my satellites.
If light pollution drowns out these billion suns —
Well, buy more crap, and then you’ll feel alright,

(My spaceship proves my manhood simply stuns)

Up, up, I…

Release the Crack Team

It’s time to deploy our military forces to combat the existential, and moral issue of our day: the Climate crisis. It’s also time to take responsibility for the fact that all people, male, female, or no, all a have a part to play. Racial and gender justice, climate injustice is a human rights issue. We can’t pit color, gender, or even rich and poor, against one another and expect different results.

It’s time for a crack team of competent and capable people in charge.

This week, choking smoke from the largest, hottest fires in the west, yet, blanketed New York…

Critical Race Theory, it’s the worst thing ever
Saying America is racist, be apologetic? Never!
But America is not like that… America is perfection
Where are law and order if we don’t have police protection?
CRT claims a contagion spreads — as if. An epidemic.
Cough without a face-mask and it’s everywhere: systemic.

I am a true patriot, I say: “All lives matter.”
All cocky cockroaches better love, or leave. Now. Just scatter.
The thing is I’m not racist. Looky here: it’s my friend Steve.
He is what is called biracial, and his kids, too, I believe.
He’s comfortable. We joke around. He even…