Please, let's call these people what they are and not the bullshit double speak they call themselves. They are anti-choice. There is nothing that actually supports life or is positive about these people they support violence and spew hatred. Let's call a spade a spade - they are against allowing a woman to…

Can they be prosecuted as stalkers?

Making clearer than ever that this is about control, not "life".

GODDAMMIT, can we please call these fuckers "anti-choice" not "pro-life"? The semantic game matters in this war of attrition on abortion and we pro-choicers should not concede that label.

How about we take up a collection for a trap-neuter-return program at that Walmart? We could probably also do something about the feral cat population while we were at it.

You realize that most of the best science fiction is all about what you're framing as "political BS," i.e. speculating on how human society and culture will develop into the future and what non-human society and culture might be like? It's not all pew-pew and rubber suits.

What is with this over policing of parenting?

Man, this is insane. I really feel for this mom and wish she lived in another country where people are not bat-shit insane about requiring helicopter parenting (and maybe where there are more child care options.) I read this article about parenting across the world, just this morning.

Lock your kids inside the house so they can sit on their asses and get diabeetus.

But the reason why these people aren't living in slums is actually because the government is giving them services. So it's not a libertarian paradise, but a kind of oddly chaotic communist one.

This article is an example of why io9 has become one of my top 3 stops in the morning. NYTimes, BBC, i09. Stuff for people who are curious about unexpected details.

Those publications will probably gloss over the part about utilities provided and public land.

See people, this is how you troll properly.

All too true. I am severely allergic to all fruit except citrus. The last non-citrus fruit I ate was a bite of peach. I was 16 and stupid and knew I was going to my friend's house, full of doctors, so I gambled. I lost the gamble. But honestly, it was worth it. Would I do it again? Nope, because dying is a…

I think I can definitely concede that point.

I often feel like HamNo and I should team up and fight crime (or at least say mean things about stuff).

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I don't think you understand how to eat a peach.

When you are taught via religion that your only value as a woman is as an incubator, of course the idea of artificial wombs makes you nervous; what value do you have now if the only thing you think makes you valuable is no longer reserved just for you?