Today is the day we give babies away...

[lydy]

My grandfather was a sailor, and he used to sing my mother the clean parts of sailor songs as lullabyes. Barnacle Bill, as you might guess, was severely truncated. He would also say, "Today is the day we give babies away, with a half a pound of tea," but he never followed it up with the next line, "So if you know any ladies that need any babies, just send them all to me."

God knows why that's on my mind at 3:30 a.m.

They haven't called Ohio, yet, but I am pretty sure it will go to Bush. Minnesota went to Kerry, so I guess I did my part. As for the rest of it, I have either too much or too little to say. I wonder...will abortion be legal in 4 years? I do wonder. And there is the too much and too little, all in one sentence.

"It's all over now, Baby Blue."

Comments

[joel-rosenberg.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that they won't suddenly come to their senses; I think the only hope is for them to slowly, gratingly come to their senses with a lot of fits and starts.

Remember how the civil rights movement worked. It wasn't overnight; it was a matter of, quite literally, generations, where careful, considered strategy was used, repeatedly, for any advance, no matter how small. It wasn't an accident, for example, that it was Rosa Parks -- a small, quiet, unthreatening black woman -- who was the focus of the bus desegregation campaign, nor that young, unscary, black girls were the plaintiffs in Brown vs. Board of Education.

I'm rather not unsympathetic on the issue -- see "The Lesbian of Darkness" -- but this battle is going to be won slowly, in the court of public opinion.

Where, by and large, it is being won, just agonizingly slowly. Shortcuts -- whether it's the MA Supreme Court ruling in this, or Silviera in the gun-rights movement -- don't work. That isn't fair, I think -- but it's true.