Actually, yesterday…but who’s counting. Here’s Jim Henley, on the right-wing outrage at Google (for not having a special Google Doodle on Memorial Day):
Most of these people spent the 1990s urging others not to be so freaking sensitive about every little thing. Babies.
Via Shakespeare’s Sister, here’s a great site that ranks the 50 states on the basis of reproductive and sexual rights, and support for families. It’s a great resource for anyone concerned about these issues.
Not surprisingly, South Dakota is number 50.
Fortunately, there’s something we can do about that. South Dakota Healthy Families spearheaded a successful petition drive to get an initiative repealing the abortion ban (passed by the SD legislature earlier this year) on the ballot. It looks like the initiative has a good chance of passing, and donations from outside South Dakota (on both sides) may well make the difference.
They also have a list of South Dakota legislators and how they voted on the abortion ban, in case anyone feels moved to donate to the good ones or to those challenging the bad ones.
If the South Dakota Taliban can be defeated, that would be a huge victory for the forces of good…and it would make the wingnuts in other states think twice about restricting abortion rights.
[Cross-posted at If I Ran the Zoo]
Many thanks to Deborah for the kind introduction, and for her gracious invitation to post here in her absence. I did promise not to rail against vodka martinis or argue that David Niven was the best Bond (I guess I can always do that at my own place), but otherwise I pretty much have free rein.
It’s a little intimidating writing for a new audience. I don’t know all that much about Wicca, and I know next to nothing about Bond (or so Deborah tells me), so I’m afraid two out of the three constituencies here are likely to be disappointed. I will, nevertheless, try to keep you all entertained in the meantime. I have no idea what people want to read; but then, when I stop to think about it, I realize this is true of my own blog as well. So I’ll just post stuff and hope y’all like it. And, um, see how that works.
We came up with the coolest ritual. Okay I did. Entirely my invention. So cool.
New moon is a traditional and opportune time for ritual divination, so we decided to experiment with Tarot in the circle. So we’re passing cards around, la la. Anyway, then I said “Let’s play Liar’s Tarot.”
I shuffled the deck and everyone drew a card without looking, and then we all held up the card, facing out, on our foreheads, so that everyone else could see. One at a time, each person read everyone else (so everyone got multiple readings). When everyone had taken a turn reading each other person, we all looked at our cards.
Did I mention cool?
Really, try it.
