My Life

 I want this to be the first in a series of posts where I go into detail about my views. The purpose of doing this is to give exposition into my own musings on a given topic with the hope that both people who agree with me and those who do not will be able to better understand my position.  The topic for this post will be abortion. I can very quickly summarize my view on abortion, and that is that I don't believe there is any reason or anything which gives me the right to dictate to any woman whether or not she should be able to get an abortion or whether she should or should not do regardless of legality. I have no children, I do not plan on having any children--even through adoption--and I am currently not sexually active with any women nor do I wish to be. There is nothing inherent about myself as a human or through my interaction with any of them which would cause me to feel any sense of entitlement to control which medical procedures she does or does not undergo. I may of...

 The rhetoric spewed by the Right concerning DEI is not new. It's the same rhetoric we've seen throughout history. It's the rhetoric used to count Black people as 3/5 of a person in the original Constitution. It's rhetoric that allowed Jim Crow laws and segregated buses and water fountains. It's not new. It's just been reworded. It sounds like a reasonable argument--"the best person for the job should get it" (of course they say "the best man for the job" and it's no accident that they use that word instead of "person"). It sounds like the right policy to have--and on paper it is. But I know what it means. I know how it's used. I've seen it myself, I've heard the stories from enough people and while I'm not a huge fan of the subject I know enough history to recognize the pattern. The trouble is that it doesn't actually mean  that the best person for the job will end up with it. Because people don't work ...