We Gots the Power

The fundraising campaign for Vera Nazarian has been so overwhelmingly successful that it is now--less than a week after it was started--shut down. In order to keep her house Vera needed $11,000 odd. The end number is closer to $20,000 (not counting income from still-open auctions) which will allow her to get her sewer repaired and manage a bunch of other debts and house-related things. One late-in-the-game donor came through--anonymously!--with $5,000.

This is wonderful. It's not just wonderful for Vera, who totally deserves the hand she's being given, but for all of us who helped her, and for those of us who just watched as the outpouring of affection and support and money grew. We forget how much power we have to help. In these times, that's an important thing to remember.

Your Logic, It Escapes Me

From a letter to the editors of The New York Times:

To the Editor:

For some people, abortion is a nonnegotiable issue. A nation that runs out of people cannot perform the activities of a sophisticated society.

We have a shortage of primary care doctors. There are other skilled-worker shortages. You cannot kill the future population of a nation and then wonder why that nation does not have the people it needs to do the jobs it requires to function.

Our nation needs to face up to the 48 million lives lost through abortion since 1973. I think at least some of that number would have become the skilled people we need now and will need even more as our population ages.

Say what?

My head hurts.