Dude.

So I'm driving to work through semi-rushhour traffic, and see a truck with a sign on it up ahead of me. It doesn't take long to see that the back of the truck is covered with a huge picture of an aborted fetus. The rest of the truck was covered with various slogans about how abortion is wrong, and god hates fags and whatnot. Do I need to see this? Do I need to see a picture of a bloody fetus on my way to work? I submit that I do not. Is this an effective way to sway peoples opinions of abortions. It made me angry. I wanted to flip the guy off or get in front of him and drive really slow or otherwise register my discontent. But I didn't do anything, on further thought, which was probably for the best.

I'm not an activist. With pending war in Iraq, and the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and countless other issues in the world, I don't really do anything about any of them. I'm not sure if I even feel strongly about many of them. I was raised in a pro-choice household, but am I really pro-choice? I think so, by why? I'm cursed, I think, with an open mind, and the desire to really understand both sides of an arguement, and therefore I really don't get to belong on one side or the other. Call it wishy-washy. Maybe I'm afraid to take a stand. But I don't think that's it. I just don't feel strongly enough about those sorts of hot political issues to take a stand either way.