First! Go Canucks, GO! or Goat, Canucks, Goat! The Canucks are up against Nikolai Khabibulin, and so far, so good. And then there are these guys I heard about on the radio this morning who are raising money for goats for people who could use a little livestock, in Africa. So go see that site and see if you have $15 or $25 (I forget) to spare for a goat for some people who couldn’t even dream of affording a hockey jersey or a playoff ticket–or a goat, for that matter.
Second! Judy Blume, whose books helped most of us North Americans roughly my age and younger through adolescence, wrote a greeting for Planned Parenthood, suggesting that it’s a nice gesture to make a donation to PP as a Mother’s Day gift. For the ignorant who equate PP with abortions for everyone! on demand! right now! late term! YES KILL ALL THE BABIES!!!!!!! BWA HA HA HA HA, this was unacceptable, and so they asked their acolytes to excoriate Judy Blume. True to form, this response included death threats (the irony apparently being lost on them). Way to go, haters!
I wonder how long it will take for all that anti-Liberal, anti-birth control, anti-education hate and bile to translate into bleeding ulcers–and whether they have health insurance to cover that. Hating is so tiring, too. Maybe they all just need a little nap.
Amanda Palmer is the person whose tweeting brought that to my attention. Go Twitter!
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