The pro-life faction has such pretty rhetoric, such an idyllic, pastoral understanding of the nature of life and living. But truly, it isn’t as simple as “choosing life”. It’s a question of navigating a vast web of interconnected outcomes, and figuring out which path is the path we want to travel. Neither having an abortion nor having a child is without its consequences.

Although White people are thought of as standard or neutral in visual design, there really is no such things as a neutral person. Visual designers need to rethink their use of ethnicity in design.

As a general rule, I am not down with mommy blogging. Not that I have anything against the mommy bloggers per se; it’s just that I am very adamantly not one of them. For one thing, that sort of content only works if one is witty and hip: I am neither, and I don’t pretend […]

I am concerned that introducing Biblical ethics in a high school class of this sort would only serve to legitimize certain religious agendas: to keep gay marriage illegal, to repeal abortion laws, etc. I worry that bringing the Bible into a high school setting under the pretense, genuine or not, of studying law will re-enforce the appropriateness of Biblcal ethics as basis for law when perhaps the question the students should be investigating is whether or not any one religious perspective should be the foundation for a legal system of a nation of 300 million people.

My problem with government is complex: of course I want there to be a representative body that protects my rights and oversees the way different people with different worldviews and pritorities interact. But I have a very difficult time making sweeping statements about what we “must do in all cases”, because I don’t look with such broad eyes.