I've been in Nashville and haven't really found a lot I like.  I judge everthing by Philadelphia standards, so maybe I'm just having trouble getting into the NashVegas mindset.

So what, I was thinking to myself earlier, what could I do to change that?  

I'd laugh my Episcopalian self silly if this were not true.  Picked up by Google News, The Jerusalem Post has reported that

In a revolutionary move bordering on schismatic, African archbishops unilaterally announced Sunday in Jerusalem that they have taken over the leadership of the Anglican Church from England and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

Genuflect below...

The Jerusalem Post

In 1972 the MS magazine premier issue did an historic thing: they published a petition in which 53 women declared they had abortions.  At this time abortion was neither safe nor legal.  And it certainly was not rare.  It was frequently painful, since anesthesia and pain medicine may or may not have been available.  

The woman having an abortion may have been blindfolded and taken to a location where someone, hopefully a sympathetic doctor, would perform the "procedure". After a very short recovery time, haven been given a few illegal pain meds, she might have been blindfolded and taken close to her home where she had to walk in and pretend, "Gee, Mom and Dad I'm just having a very bad period."  At least that's what my friend "Jeannie" had to do in her freshman year of high school.

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Update: ThereIsNoSpoon beat me to the finishline, so if y'all feel this is too similar to him, let me now and I'll get out the WiteOut! Are you ready for your Daily Fair Share of Abuse?

This comes from the Houston Chronical;

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces "a new type of fascism" and likened critics of the Bush administration's war strategy to those who tried to appease the Nazis in the 1930s.

In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration's critics as suffering from "moral or intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security. His remarks amounted to one of his most pointed defenses of President Bush' war policies and was among his toughest attacks on Bush's critics.

Let's all hold hands and jump!

I haven't been posting much due a a back problem, but now with the help of some stratigically placed steriods, I hoping to get back to what passes as normal. Kudos for Robert Scheer to helping me break out of my drug induced stuper. I dont' know you, but I owe you one! On my afterwood walk amoung the bloggy fields, I came across this. It may be old news for all I know, but my pain addled brain doesn't know better. Link are mine. as are the comments. Robert Scheer, over at truthdig has this to say, which I've shortend to save precious and few electrons. You can read the full article here.

it has a blackhole which they told no one about! My father was told by Medicare D that he made too much to enroll, which suited him just fine because the thought it was a huge scam to benefit the pharm lobbies. Well, if they pharmaceutical companies and the government can't get you one way, they'll get you another.

Some Tennessee GOP think that rape victims are liars and should be polygraphed. Last month, the Tennessee Senate bill 2971 passed, by a margin of 27-1. It would require law enforcement officials to polygraph rape victims to determine the "truthiness" of their claims. The House voted 77-10 to approve a bill prohibiting law enforcement officials from requiring an alleged rape victim to take a lie detector test in order to proceed with an investigation. Fortunately, even in Frist country, not all Republicans are this mysoginistic or stupid.

it's 1086 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a case of Red Bull left, it's dark and we're wearing Kerry/Edwards t-shirts...

Quick!  Who should play Tony Snow in a Saturday Night Live sketches?

(We all know it's coming, don't we!)