i volunteer

so I just heard on the news that it will soon be illegal to take a minor across state lines to get her an abortion without her parents' consent. I just wanted to announce that I am available anytime to take any minors anywhere they need to go to get an abortion, especially if it's illegal, so if you know anyone who needs one, send her my way.

also, in the last week when I have been out of touch at the convention of the socialist organization to which I belong,* it seems like the news approach to global warming has shifted from "it's not happening, it's not happening, la-la-la-la-la-la-la I can't hear you!!!!!!" to making jokes about it.

I suppose the shift must have happened more slowly, but somehow I didn't notice it until tonight when I heard two news anchors making jokes about getting over to see the Alps before all the glaciers melt, and how all the Alpen skiiers will have to take up water-skiing. Ha very ha.

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(as I said to one of my Flickr pen-pals, a guy from Slovenia, "I'm packing to go to Chicago for 12 days (for the convention of our socialist org--you'll know we've had a successful convention when you see that the US has become a socialist country; it should happen in the next week)."