zen is boring

Zen is Boring!

Among other things, this essay goes back to that bit I wrote a while back about narrative closure and living in the moment and like that.

Some of the other essays on the site are worth reading, also. (You'll have to hack the URL to get there, but it's pretty obvious.)

sometimes it's haaaaard to be a womaaaan...

as pointed out by ursulav:

The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2005 (Senate Bill 51 and House Bill 356) has been referred to committee in both the House and the Senate. It contains this definition:

WOMAN- The term `woman’ means a female human being who is capable of becoming pregnant, whether or not she has reached the age of majority.

Hmm. I'm...not a woman. And neither is my mother. (Neat trick, huh? Pr'aps it's hereditary...) If you're menopausal, sterile, or on birth control, you're not a woman under this definition.

A few responders pointed out the problems with this definition (in addition to the fact that it excludes those female adult humans that are sterile, menopausal, or using birth control, as ursulav already noted):

• sterile/menopausal/birth control users can't get married in states which define marriage as being "between a man and a woman"
  
• pregnant female adult humans aren't women (since they are incapable of becoming pregnant); therefore, there is no such thing as a pregnant woman, and this entire piece of legislation vanishes in a puff of logic. (Oh, if only it would.)