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Troll

Inspired by this cartoon from Scott Johnson

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Troll

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abortion politics

It’s my Grand Old Party and I’ll lie if I want to (even if it leads to terrorism)

The claim that abortion is baby-murder hasn’t worked. More Americans are now pro-choice than pro-life. Most Americans also support the federal government continuing to fund Planned Parenthood, knowing that some Planned Parenthood clinics provide abortions. There could be many reasons for that. Maybe they know that abortions are only 3% […]

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Conservative fantasy vs. reality, pt. 3

I took the “most likely” out, because this is just reality. Dan Lietha’s comic about Planned Parenthood: My response: The facts: Planned Parenthood services help prevent approximately 516,000 unintended pregnancies each year. Planned Parenthood provides nearly 400,000 Pap tests and nearly 500,000 breast exams each year, critical services in detecting […]

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comic evolution

Rearranged pond scum

I decided to go for a reductio ad absurdum this time. This cartoon has an identified author/artist– hooray! Dan Lietha does the CreationWise cartoon for Answers in Genesis, and that link and his Facebook page both have treasure troves of fatuous nonsense in comic form. It’s a common trope of […]

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Conservative fantasy vs. most likely reality, pt. 2

I decided that depicting a more realistic version of a conservative cartoon was pretty fun, and decided to take another crack at it. Original: My revamp:

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Pages from a pregnancy crisis center manual

I currently live in Wichita, Kansas. It’s where I was born and raised. I moved away for college, and then elsewhere for the rest of college, and then out of the country for grad school, and then back to the states and back to Wichita. It’s a good city in […]

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Pursuing happiness together

Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s weddingwith fireworks. Source Over the Independence Day weekend, I kept on thinking about dignity after writing this post. In particular I considered dignity as it relates to the pursuit of happiness, to which we all have a right according to the Declaration of Independence. […]

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Dignity in light of Obergefell: What Thomas just doesn’t get

Image: A black person’s hand and a white person’s handforming a heart.  Someday somebody’s gonna ask you A question that you should say yes to Once in your life Maybe tonight I’ve got a question for you — “Question,” Old 97’s Control over your own life. Since we were old enough to recognize the […]

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Happy Father’s Day

This year’s Father’s Day card: (How I made it below the jump) I like to draw animals in clothes, and I found myself with a lot of patterned paper on hand, so of course I did what any person would do in such a situation– I made a father’s day […]

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