Lazy bookstore Sunday

I picked up three books from my local vendor this morning. Also, a coffee and a donut.

Singularity Sky, by Charles Stross

This is his eschaton novel, or perhaps the first of his eschaton novels, I dunno. To be clear, I haven't read the book. I have finished both the coffee and donut, so that's something.

The Engineer Reconditioned, a story collection by Neal Asher

and Revelation Space, by Alastair Reynolds

Oh imaginary ZWTF readers, have you read any of these books, or authors? Any other suggestions?

I didn't buy, but might've: Altered Carbon, 

"Important people get better health care."

She said it, but we were thinking it

"Nothing brings a team together like a harrowing experience."

"Always remember marriage is a competition."

"Rich 50 is middle class 38."

It's not that simple, but a good point anyway

I don't think that it's remotely plausible to think that concessions will end conflicts about abortion. Incremental regulations of abortion are part of a very conscious, longer-term strategy to re-criminalize abortion in as many jurisdictions as possible. Such compromise legislation may not encourage anti-choice mobilization per se, but nor is there the slightest reason to believe they will make the conflict over abortion go away.

This isn't merely hypothetical: the Supreme Court has explicitly permitted a broad array of abortion regulations since 1992, many states and the federal government have enacted at least some of them, and yet the pro-life movement remains powerful enough to have a veto over Republican presidential candidates. It is naive to believe that the pro-life movement would vanish if it were given even more ground. But this has nothing to do with concessions showing weakness; rather, it's a function of the fact that there's a significant pro-life minority in this country, and as long as abortion is legal, there is no magic formula that could make them go away.

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