Okay, see….already I know that I shouldn’t vote for Hilary Clinton for president. She’s apparently sponsoring a $90 million investigation into the effects of violent videogames on children. Now, it’s not the investigation itself that I disagree with. It’s the $90 million. I mean….seriously….they can’t do it for less? That seems like a total waste.

Did you guys watch the new American version of “The Office”? I could see how someone who had never seen the show before would enjoy it. Because, basically, it’s exactly the same as the British version, just without the accents or British slang. There’s Steve Carrell channelling Ricky Gervais. There’s the same jokes they used in the British version. It’s the same plot, almost exactly the same script. Hell, I think a lot of the camera shots were lifted straight from the British version.

And that, ultimately, is the problem for me. Because I saw the British version. And I enjoyed it. But I don’t really need to see it again with a different cast.

I realized it’s been a while since I posted anything, so I thought I’d start with something light…

I was driving behind a car today that had a bumper sticker. It read, “Abortion is a wrong, not a right.”

Reading this made me realize that there is no way the abortion debate can ever come to an end because the two sides are not having the same argument. People who are pro-choice are saying that, regardless of whether they feel abortion is right or wrong, it is not government’s (or anyone else’s) decision whether or not a woman should be able to get an abortion. People who are pro-life are just arguing that it’s wrong. For pro-lifers it is simply a moral debate. But that’s not what people who are pro-choice are arguing about. I mean, I’m not exactly PRO-abortion, but I’m not going to tell someone else what they can and can’t do. People who are pro-life are saying that because they think it’s wrong, you shouldn’t be able to do it. Do you see what I’m saying? It’s not the same argument at all, and so there can be no real resolution to the “debate”. If pro-lifers argued that abortion was wrong and pro-choicers argued that abortion was right, that would be two sides of a debate. I SUPPOSE that you could say that pro-lifers are arguing that women should NOT have the right to choose and pro-choicers are arguing that women should have the right to choose, but that’s not the foundation of the pro-life argument. Because, really, if they just said, “Women shouldn’t be allowed to choose” they’d sound like dicks. Instead they just say that abortion is wrong, and so the debate falls apart.

I don’t know. It sounded better in my head, I think. I guess my point is, ultimately, that I feel that the pro-lifers are making a stupid argument. There’s no real rationale behind it, if you ask me. It’s them trying to impose their will and beliefs on others, and I guess I have a problem with that. I mean…that bumper sticker is right. Abortion is not a right. Abortion is a choice, and CHOICE is a right. Choice=freedom, and isn’t that the entire foundation of our country?

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