RIP Dr Tiller

[blamebrampton]

America, you sadden me. And to those churches who have preached hate against this man and his clinic for years, you are to blame, don't pretend otherwise.

In other news, the last survivor of the Titanic has died, which is one of those odd pieces of trivia that should mean nothing, and yet is still sad. Biscuit the spare cat has returned from wherever she has been hiding for the last week, and whoever cast Calista Flockhart as a character younger than Rachel Griffiths and only slightly older than Balthazar Getty is a cruel, cruel bastard.

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[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

I'm crushed.



Calista is doomed to forever be Ally McBeal in my head. It wouldn't matter is she ended up playing a 24th century space pirate with a thing for dangly earrings and really big ray guns.

Ally McBeal. *nods*

[bryoneybrynn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I find this sort of thing difficult to even discuss. I actually wrote a huge long comment and then deleted it because preaching to the choir and all. *sigh* People suck.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that actions like that proceed from a pronounced lack of faith. If God exists, and there is heaven and hell, then presumably he can take care of it all.

[mific.livejournal.com]

Large swathes of the US population are still profoundly fundamentalist i.e. non-rational. It's a worry.

And as a besotted cat-owned-person, I'm tempted to say something really silly like "Biscuit was never a spare for Harry!" (misquoting the Twoseekers comm motto!) Am glad she's back, anyway.

[noeon.livejournal.com]

I find the fact that he was gunned down in his own church passing out church bulletins astonishing. I don't know why, it's no worse than the HORRIBLE killing of Dr. Slepian at his home, but it's still... *shakes head*

It's the tacit acceptance of violence that gets me, the unwillingness of the middle to break with the ideology that leads to hate and murder. Sometimes these sorts of killings do cause a wider liberal or even moderate swath to break away, but then people forget. I'm truly sickened.