Rant again. Sorry. Read it though.

[pfeffernuesse]

Listening to the Hair soundtrack, "Abie Baby" came on. A tribute to Abraham Lincoln (not Lincon, as I assumed). So I decided to look up the Wikipedia entry for this "Great Emancipator," because A) I'm a procrastinating loser, and B) to see the date of the American holiday, as I believed it was soon (February 12th). And found, the "why" of the

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[karaokefiles]

It's interesting that you bring up abortion, since right-wing lunatics often compare the legality of abortion to the legality of slavery to try and excuse their anti-choice nonsense.

During the Bush-Kerry debates, Bush seemingly out of nowhere brought up the Dred Scott case, which was a Supreme Court case from the 1840's that ruled that slaves were property, not people, and couldn't sue for their freedom. Bush said he would never appoint anyone to the Supreme Court that supported the Dred Scott decision. Ok, great George, good to know you're anti-slavery IN THE YEAR 2004. But no, it turns out anti-choice activists use the Dred Scott case to illustrate the supposed unfairness of viewing a fetus as a mother's property. An insulting, illogical argument used not only by the lunatic fringe but by the supposed "leader of the free world"! Who was then, insanely, reelected. The mind boggles.

Oh look, now I'M ranting.