design blog

happy mundane she's got some good links. i pine for good design! but i'm lazy and broke!

i have no room to complain. haha

monsanto owns your food

why is it a problem that we grow only 4 kinds of potatoes in the united states? why is gene modification a problem?

we eat corn, a lot, it's in almost everything we eat (high fructose corn syrup). most of that corn was planted using seeds from monsanto, who has genetically modified the corn so that if a worm eats any of it, the worm dies. do you think that's a good thing for us to be consuming? that's only the tip of the iceberg as far as the problem with having seeds that are patented.

i want to run away

wouldn't that just be so much easier?

are you next?

this article that i read in the independent weekly (the independent newspaper here) called "are you next?" reminded me of a thought that i have regularly. the sentiment is that we've spent so much time hating a group of people based on their ethnicity in the united states. there's a new group ever few decades, and in hindsight we always think it odd that we though that way. we're doing it again by preventing aliens from community colleges. granted, they're illegal aliens, but if they're paying to go to community college, then why should we bar them from bettering themselves and actually contributing to society in a way that's bigger than picking fruit every season?

abortion rights

i've always tried to explain my position on why abortion must remain legal. a former gynecologist who saw many botched at-home abortions because he had to repair the damage done wrote a piece for the ny times essay section that i read that explains why.

the reason is because even if the procedure is illegal, it will not prevent women from seeking them out, but it will kill them. it will leave them maimed for life. they will be subjected to horrors. because historically women get abortions whether or not they're illegal.

i saw some men protesting near the gynecology/obstetrics office that i go to. white men. who i'm sure had the friday off while i was around the corner having an ultra-sound done to see why i have been so sick recently. they had these big posters of aborted fetuses, which are gruesome.

i think that maybe pro-rights people should take a different stance in their protest. start showing photographs of the women brutalized by procedures done illegally and in back alleys. while i don't really think that someone should be exploited in that way, these men and pro-life protesters are exploiting the fetus. they're exploiting the parents of the fetus.

i just don't understand why you would struggle so hard to control something that doesn't effect your own body and won't. something that you will never understand because it is physically impossible for you to understand.

i've had conversations with myself about abortion, and i've had friends who have been through them. they're awful, they emotionally rake a woman over the coals and leave her thinking about what could have been her child for the rest of their lives. but those are children that would've been brought into an unhappy life, for the most part. one that couldn't provide them with a fair life. these women were not ready, and neither were the fathers.

people make the decision to have an abortion for all sorts of reasons, but they are their own. we shouldn't be relegating them to unsafe practices when a safe procedure is available. women will have abortions. the question is whether or not they will have them safely.

live on roe v. wade. live on.