Now The Right Is After The Pill and Condoms

Who They Really Are

Interesting and terrifying article on the CommonDreams website the other day, Group That Helped Reverse Roe Sets Sights on Birth Control, by Jessica Corbett. It turns out that “the conservative Christian group, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF),” which was one of the prime movers behind the end of Roe v. Wade, is now gunning for birth control. Yes, they want to make condoms, the pill, IUDs, etc., illegal. 

We all saw this coming, of course. The real thrust of the Right was always against recreational sex, not abortion. Abortion was just the convenient launching pad for the larger effort. 

In short, the Right stands revealed for what it truly is. Not a band of humanitarians protecting the unborn, but Anthony Comstock returned, full of hate, detesting pleasure, and eager to condemn all and sundry to the pit for exercising (God forbid!) their freedom to choose.  

Fairwell, Xcargo

Well, I have finally decided to say goodby to explosive-cargo the blog. I will, instead, do my posting at my brand new blog, the official (ta-dah!) Michael Jay Tucker blog,which you can also find here:

https://michaeljaytucker.blogspot.com/

Why a new blog? Well, that is kind of hard to say. I've done Xcargo for a long time as a blog, and for an even longer time as an ezine. (Remember ezines?) And when I started the publication, I felt I wanted to be mischievous, and confrontational, and very, very political...though with a smile. I wanted to be a gadfly and a rabble-rouser.

And, well, I'm not sure I feel that way any longer. I would still like to be funny, now and then, if I can be. And I guess I will always write about politics. Though, frankly, right now, I'm not sure the world needs any more rabble-rousers. We've got way too many rabbles and way too many rousers as it is.

Besides, somehow, the name "explosive" doesn't seem to fit any more. (And, he said with a sad smile, in this age of alerts and alarms, it is not always safe to use in public discourse.)

So, I'm starting the new blog. It'll have my writings, but also more of my experiments with art and graphics, and with video. It will be, I hope, more in tune with who I feel I am now.

I'll be letting this blog run until the end of the year. There will be videos each Friday up until December 27. Then, after that, it will go silent.

But please do go to the new blog, and stay with me. I wouldn't want to lose your friendship after all this time.

cheers
mjt

Oh, my God, I'm famous...sort of.

Well, it seems I've been quoted.

Way back in 1994, I wrote the following line in my ezine, explosive-cargo:

"If the Anti-Abortion Movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make the world a'shine."

(I've also seen it reproduced on the web as "...make the world shine.")

But, anyway, someone just pointed out to me that it's been included in William Martin's recent book of liberal quotes, Quotes from the Underground: Radical Wisdom in Small Doses.

In a word, wow. Far freaking out.

Thanks Dr. Martin.

Prolifers...people wasted (from 1994)

If the Anti-Abortion Movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make the world a'shine.

NOTE, I've seen this reproduced as "...could make the world shine."

mjt

B52 Strikes and Armed Pro-Lifers

Linx

"Judge To Hear Key Motions In Kan. Murder Trial," by Kathy Lohr, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121746158&ft=1&f=1003

"Judge says no to 'necessity defense' for George Tiller's alleged killer," by Justin Kendall, http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/12/judge_says_no_to_necessity_defense_for_george_tillers_alleged_killer.php