So I started off checking my email. That was innocent enough, except AOL always has links to news. So I clicked on one, read the article, tried desperately to ignore the comments, the usual. And then I saw the link on the side to a Huffington Post article about Arizona's new abortion law: it is illegal for doctors to perform an abortion if the reason is to avoid a child of a specific gender or race. Um...I'm not sure this is happening in America. The people who oppose the bill are sure it isn't. And the 'evidence' as stated by someone who does support it is as follows:
The likelihood of having a boy baby increases after having two girl babies. Therefore people who have abortions are trying to have boy babies.
Um....okaaaaaay.
My next political reading: another Huffington Post article, this time about how a judge ruled that Chris Christie (governor of New Jersey, my home state), whose budget slashed 1 million from public schools, actually did more harm than good by cutting all that money. Poor schools couldn't afford to give even the level of education they'd been giving before.
Really? I never could have imagined that.
So then, tired of current politics, I turned to the politics of ancient Rome. My assigned reading for my Latin class was on General Pompey tonight, one of the members of the first triumvirate. That didn't improve my mood much, because Pompey was arrogant and got an easy win against King Mithridates in the 3rd Mithridatic War (Lucullus did all the hard work and then got the command taken away because his soldiers were annoyed that he wouldn't let them plunder. Go figure).
Well, since this was a snarky, ranting post, I have to make sure I end with an especially good Delight. This is a picture I took while I was in Israel; one of my favorites.
Cheers!
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