Next Verse, as Incomprehensible as the First

And once again, the GOP is wasting time (and our per-hour tax dollars) trying to defund an organization that exists solely to ensure that women are able to afford basic and essential health care.

And their stated reasons?  To stop abortion and the selling of fetal tissue.  Except

a) Federal law already restricts PP from using federal funds to provide abortions  (the Hyde Amendment), and

b) by offering affordable contraception and reproductive care, PP actually REDUCES the chance of women having an unwanted pregnancy that would lead to an abortion,  AND

c) It is illegal to sell fetal tissue, but it IS legal for scientists obtain fetal tissue for research purposes from a variety of sources, including hospitals, nonprofit tissue banks, and, yes, in some cases, abortion clinics. Which means that tissue that would otherwise have been considered medical waste is instead used to save lives via research into currently-deadly diseases costing us millions in dollars and thousands in lives.

(and the video claiming to show that PP is somehow avoiding those laws has been exposed as a heavily-edited sham)

So why are the GOP so determined to shut down PP?  You know why.

 And it's not about saving tax money. Or stopping abortions.

well, that's an odd end to an odd week...

I seem to have done myself a very odd injury. Or ailment, I'm not sure which.  All at once, without warning or actual impact.

My right hand, at the base of my right ring finger, to about midway straight down into my palm, aches. And when I say aches, I mean as though fire ants had gnawed on the tendons and bone.

But there is no tenderness when the area is pressed (in fact, it feels better), no swelling or redness at the site, and I am able to flex and use my fingers without anything other than that aching in one finger.  My wrist is fine, my arm is fine.

Have you ever tried to type without using your ring finger. Weirdly, I don't think it can be done. Not by me, anyway.

Going to wrap it in a heating pad, elevate it, and drink wine.  May not sure anything, but it certainly won't harm it...