Well, “bloviating” is one of my favorite words (in part because it gets at something important and all too frequent in today’s culture; also because it does so while nicely suggesting “blowhard” and “bluff” to the ears). A lot of my favorite writing is deflationary–stuff that cuts through a big mess of nonsense with the simple truth. (Stuff like Ellen Willis’s Women and the Myth of Consumerism or Lucinda Cisler’s Abortion law repeal (sort of), for example.). Partly because I think most moral and political truths are simpler than people–especially men trying to make excuses for themselves–tend to think, and partly because longwindedness is so often a vice of my own that I especially admire people who knock it out of the park in a couple of sentences. Which is why I liked your post and the post that you quoted as much as I did: there’s so much talk surrounding abortion (on both sides) that’s just pure blabber,–blame games and strategic
hand-wringing and bald opportunism–but this is the argument that cuts straight through the nonsense every time. Abortion rights advocates should be unapologetic and uncompromising because your body belongs to you, not to Jerry Falwell.
Subversive ideas found here, here, and here. Blondesense is doing a series proving that the claims that the 10 Commandments are the basis of our law are false. Bean has a two part post examining why victims of domestic violence…
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