{"id":2656,"date":"2002-08-03T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2002-08-03T09:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2002-08-03T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2002-08-03T09:24:18","slug":"ann-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2656","title":{"rendered":"ANN AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dawson (why, dammit, why do I always think of \u0091Jay and Silent Bob\u0092 when I hear that name?? Actually, why do I think of \u0091Jay and Silent Bob\u0092 when I hear most things?) throws<\/a> a little chin music my way over my Ann Coulter comment.
\nHis points, as I read them early this morning:
\n1.\tShe probably said what she said, and there\u0092s nothing new here<\/i>. I\u0092m pretty new to this whole Ann Coulter thing \u0096 remember that we don\u0092t have TV \u0096 so the comments are new to me, anyway.
\n2.\tHe dings me for printing my email to her website.<\/i> I intended to do two things in doing so, and I probably should have said something about them when I put them up: a) having hammered her for saying something, at least do her the courtesy of asking if she really said it in the only way I know how; and b) try in my own tiny 200-unique-visitor-a-day manner to put some pressure on someone to either have her back or repudiate the clear meaning of the quote.
\n3.\tHe justifiably dings me for sending it to the webmaster, and expecting some kind of response<\/i>. OK, where else should I have sent it? I mean, again, at least I\u0092m trying to confirm it!
\n4.\tHe dings me for not knowing her oevre<\/i>. He\u0092s right. At some point I\u0092ll try and read her book\u0085it\u0092s just that what with moving, unpacking, looking for work, getting a kid off to college, etc. etc. time is a little thin. I promise that by the end of the year, I\u0092ll have read the book and commented.
\n5.\tHe appears to support her in what she appears to have said<\/i>. Here we go pretty far off the rails, and I\u0092ll enlarge below.
\nMy personal position on abortion is pretty complex. Up to my late 20\u0092s, I was firmly on the \u0091women\u0092s right to choose\/get the oppressive state out of my uterus\u0092 side of things. I\u0092d paid for one or two abortions, and had a mild twinge about it, but it wasn\u0092t a big deal to me. The moral stance was clear.
\nThen we (ex and I) decided to have a kid, and soon were pregnant. I clearly remember walking into the doctor\u0092s office and seeing the first sonogram (we have the video somewhere) of Biggest Guy in utero. It was a transcendent moment, second only to the moment he crowned and I saw him for the first time.
\nAs we walked out of the office, we were both contemplative. I turned to her and said, \u0093You know, this whole abortion thing is far more complex than I ever thought.\u0094 And to this day I agree that it is.
\nI\u0092m still on the side of some limited right to choose on the part of women. I agree that it should be secure, safe, and most of all, rare. I\u0092m less dogmatic about it.
\nI am dogmatic, however, about threatening and shooting people.
\nIt\u0092s real simple: the right to personally take up arms and act violently toward another person has to be reserved for a case where you are personally under threat of harm, or when any reasonable<\/u> person would agree it is appropriate.
\nIf I were armed, and a 7-11 was being violently held up as I drove into the lot, I\u0092d retreat to a position of safety, get on the phone, and be a good witness. If the robber(s) saw and attacked me, we\u0092d have a different kind of discussion.
\nNo one is personally threatening the clinic killers. There exists a spectrum of opinion on whether abortion is murder; this suggests that they need to work the process, not rifle bolts.
\nJohn Brown was a psychotic nutjob. His impact on history was questionable, regardless of his place in song. Clinic murderers are nutjobs as well, and the right-to-life movement tarnishes itself by harboring, aiding, and tolerating people like that.
\nIs my position on that clear?
\nOn a more conciliatory note, I also enjoy Dawson\u0092s site, and I\u0092m flattered as hell that he said this about me: Armed Liberal, who I honestly enjoy reading and find to be, not only a good writer, as in a damn fine wordsmith but also a rational, articulate person\u0085<\/i>.
\nLet\u0092s find some stuff we can agree on and go do it. Meanwhile, let\u0092s go eat some BBQ\u0085<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dawson (why, dammit, why do I always think of \u0091Jay and Silent Bob\u0092 when I hear that name?? Actually, why do I think of \u0091Jay and Silent Bob\u0092 when I hear most things?) throws a little chin music my way over my Ann Coulter comment. His points, as I read them early this morning: 1. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}