some "real" photos

These are scanned-in SLR photos (pardon the poor scanning job, I don't have photoshop here and had to ousource the job to the librarian with the access to an old, dusty scanner--well, as old as a scanner can be).

( The Virgin of Quito )

( Dancing boobies )

( Frigate bird )

Culture of "Life"

Oh, would the freaking fundies get raptured or kool-aided or something already?

U.S. pushes U.N. on abortion declaration

Ten years after the world's nations pledged to achieve equality for women, a follow-up meeting has become embroiled in controversy over a U.S. demand that its final declaration state that women are not guaranteed the right to abortion.


seizure seizure seizure! Meet Umbert the Unborn! A comic strip about the world's most loveable viable fetus! Could someone please photoshop an Umbert abortion?

in more awesome news, look at this clusterfuck.

Two points:

1. This happened courtesy of parental notification legislature

2. Why the FUCK are they charging the boyfriend? How is this different from an abortion, except for the "shock value" of the circumstances? And the the phrasing, oh my, the language!

In part because it still was legal to abort the fetus, the decision renewed debate over the protection of fetuses and the fairness of charging just one of two juveniles who allegedly agreed to kill their unborn child.

Smith said if the 6-month-old fetus had been viable, the boy would have been charged with manslaughter of a quick-born child, a 15-year felony.

Abortion is not homicide, but legal "precedent" by legal "precedent" the backdoor assault on Roe v. Wade continues.

That's it, I'm getting this T-shirt

I don't need to leave the house for entertainment

In the boarding house where I stay when I am in Quito I share the second floor with two boys, who are here for a year as English teachers. Separately they are both well-read, interesting guys, I talk politics with one and play chess with the other. Together, however, they morph into Beavis and Butthead.

Inspired by my new favorite website, I bring you

OVERHEARD OUTSIDE MY DOOR

Guy #1: Who is that guy who rolled the boulder up the hill? Syphilis?
Guy #2: Sisyphus.
Guy #1: Haha, Sissy-phus! Get it?? SISSY-PHUS!