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    We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.
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    your t.s.a. at work

    And as long as we’re talking transportation…

    My husband’s name is very common; our son’s first name and my own are slightly unusual, but we all share the same common last name.

    On our recent trip to Florida, J. flew out several days after our son and me, and had no difficulties; on the way home we all flew together.

    When checking our bags at Tampa International for [...]



    What a Sincere Apology Sounds Like

    Don’t care what politicians do in their personal life.  In my perfect world, none of a politician’s or celebrity’s personal life would ever be reported.  But we do not live in that world.  Cenk Uygur appropriately points out that Governor Sanford left out a couple of things in his apology.

    I [Cenk Uygur] can begin to forgive Sanford if he gives this apology:

    I am so sorry [...]



    live equal or die

    Gay marriage legislation became law in New Hampshire this afternoon. Gov. John Lynch signed the bills just after 5:20 p.m. before dozens of enthusiastic supporters of same-sex marriage.

    New Hampshire’s law takes effect Jan. 1.

    HB 73, compromise legislation demanded by the governor, was passed by a vote of 14-10 in the Senate and 198-176 in the House today. HB 73 (text), was an add-on to [...]



    the incredible shrinking woman

    Reading the comments from wingnuts on the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, you’d think that he was mowing down healthy infants in their hospital nursery bassinets with an AK-47.

    Nowhere in those comments is there any mention of the mothers who desperately wanted their babies, but who were forced into Dr. Tiller’s care by genetic or gestational defects that defeat even modern medicine’s ability to cure.

    Take, [...]



    the pope wants your daughter’s uterus to explode

    because that would be morally righteous. Allowing her to abort the twins she carries as the result of a rape would be wrong:

    A 9-year-old girl who was carrying twins, allegedly after being raped by her stepfather, underwent an abortion Wednesday despite complaints from Brazil’s Roman Catholic church.

    Police said the stepfather has been jailed since last week.

    Abortion is illegal in Brazil, but judges can make [...]



    it’s just sex

    Openly gay Portland Mayor Sam Adams is on the ropes, and will probably resign, because he lied to a reporter about sex.

    Yes, he was stupid to lie – as Clinton was – but the question never should have been asked in the first place. Sex is a bodily function, we all do it in myriad different ways, and it’s time to stop treating it [...]



    i wouldn’t have my law degree, my husband or my son

    without the choice afforded by Roe v. Wade.

    Perhaps, with Obama at the helm instead of McCain – and with as many as 3 Supreme Court vacancies in the balance – my nieces will have the right to choose that was available to me when my chosen method of birth control failed in 1988.

    “On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that this [...]



    why you should vote yes on i-1000

    Dan Savage says it all:

    My mother had pulmonary fibrosis, a degenerative lung condition, and we knew enough about the disease to know that dramatic turns for the worse were a possibility… But eight weeks before she wound up in a sprawling, dung-colored hospital in sprawling, dung-colored Tucson, my mother’s doctors had given her two to five years to live.

    [I]t fell to me to walk back [...]

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