There's two things that I had been thinking over this weekend during my 48 hours of not doing anything other than reading "Next" and playing Twilight Princess; abortions and plungers. Abortion moreso than plungers, but a considerable amount was spent thinking on both.

I'm not necessarily against abortion. I don't really think it's *wrong*, exactly, but I can see where someone might get the idea that it shouldn't be done. I can see that, especially since, being a dude that never got aborted, I'd have to say that being an unaborted dude is pretty sweet. I'm down with life. But most of the reasons I've heard that are against abortion have something to do with religion and God.

I can understand this, because, if *I* was God, and I was working on an awesome new geographical landscape, and some Chinese fellow saw it and thought "hey, I don't want that, lets tear it down," well, I'd be a little bummed. I'd be thinking "man, I worked hard on planning that landscape out, and you went and took a nuke to it. You jerk."

The problem is, that God is known as a being that created all and knows all. Or, rather, KNEW EVERYTHING ALREADY. As in, he created everything, knows everything that ever happened, and everything that ever WILL happen. This, I can also accept as possible. Being alive, and not personally knowing God, I can't justify saying whether or not such a being exists.

Here's the problem. If most anti-abortionists feel that by performing an abortion you are throwing away a gift of God - are you? Would a being that knows everything that can and will happen bother to create a future for a being that he knows will never get a chance to experience life? He would have to have know beforehand that the child would die, and, if it actually IS a work of God when someone gets pregnant, would have to have known that they would fail to deliver, and if the child was doomed before conception, then there doesn't seem to be anything immoral to the practice.

Of course, with the belief of a semi-omnipitent God, I can see where the immorality might appear. If God was your average, laid-back kinda dude, and said "Hey guys, guess what? I totally just created a way for you to make more of yourselves? ISN'T THAT AWESOME?" I'd have to say, "Yes, God, that is bad as hell," leaving God to venture forward with his Godly duties with a feeling of accomplishment knowing that his creations approved of his imagination.

I think the morality of abortion could be based on a God of THIS nature, to where, sure, he could certainly know what was going on in the world, but not quite to the extent of knowing EVERYTHING that goes on and everything that ever WILL go on. Take any RTS game. You make dudes, you tell them to do stuff, and you win. You often tell entire GROUPS to do things, then proceed to tell another group to do something else. You assume that these units are going to do as they are told, and, since their intelligence is artificial, they do.

But what if you told some peons to go chop some wood, then went and looked at your enemy's territory for a bit? Then came back to find not only was the wood not chopped, but they were instead stealing the village's gold and food. You'd be pretty pissed, and be thinking "what the hell, peon, I told you to go chop wood, not steal the village plunder."

Or what about: Grandma? And her Christmas gifts? How many times have you recieved a well-intended gift from Grandma, recieved with her smile and excitement, only to realize that you were only going to sell it on Ebay? Grandma might not know you sold it on Ebay, unless she originally BOUGHT it on Ebay and went to buy you another one for next year, only to discover - suprise, suprise! YOU HAVE IT FOR SALE. Grandma would probably be pretty sad.

So, I'd say, if God is anything like that, I'd say that aborting kids would make God sad. Maybe a little irate, but I don't know the guy, so I can't say for sure. If he only *sorta* knows what's going on, then he's probably happy when he see's folks intentially birthing childrens, and maybe being kinda bummed when he see's folks thinking "damn it, God, why'd you make me get pregnant?" Maybe he didn't. Who knows.

I don't know either, but that's beside the point.

What is NOT beside the point, however, is plungers. Ladies, I need your input on this. While at the Hardware Store, I was searching for a plunger to plunge my unplunged sink. Looked around a bit; didn't take too long to find, and soon found myself at the checkout.

Total was about 3.13 I think; not too much, and the cashier politely asked if I wanted a bag.

I did want a bag, but before I could respond, his co-cashier/possible manager chucked and said "Of course he does. There might be some pretty ladies out there, and he doesn't want to be seen with a plunger."

Well, I personally thought that plungers were pretty manly, so I said "Well, I do want a bag, but plungers are pretty manly; the ladies would love it," to which she responded: "Keep tellin yourself that."

So I'm curious, ladies: Plungers: Turn off or turn on?