Photoshopped South Dakota state logo by TheeErin (flickr)

Isn’t it rich? The “straight laces” in South Dakota continually strive to proscribe abortion there, so of course South Dakota women can be compared to Muslim women oppressed by their male overlords! It’s safe to speculate that the “artist” doesn’t know much about life behind the burqa, but she does appear to know a bit about moral equivalence, particularly the more absurd varieties.

In the last thirty-five years since Roe v. Wade there have been almost fifty million abortions performed in our great nation, roughly the equivalent of the combined populations of a dozen of our least populous states like South Dakota. There’s one state, however—and only one state—where there are no abortions being performed at all, at least temporarily. There aren’t any burkas being worn there either, although there are a few hijabs on display.

Can you guess which state?

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YouTube video by Reborious — SpongeBob sings “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”

This post is to test embedded video, and it admittedly has no thematic relevance here–well, almost none, anyway. I was just reading about Kentucky state congressman Tim Couch, who wants to criminalize anonymous posting on the Internet. No, he’s not the former inept quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, but like the 1999 NFL #1 draft pick he is apparently prone to dropping the ball.

You wanna be where you can see our troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name.

Representative Couch just wants to protect poor kids from being harassed and tormented by Internet “bullies,” so he says, and he notes that there have been several such instances of virtual bullying in his district. So here we have another roadway to Hell paved with good intentions.

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