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Andantino in D major, in common time evolving into Presto non assai, ma con sentimento in B minor in 2:4 time
The shortest of all four, the movement begins sweetly being one of the composition’s few uplifting passages. In measure twenty-three, the clarinet and violin play as if they were talking in a conversation. It modulates back from its heart-warming D major into the darker B minor. This section is highly influenced by the first part and even ends the same except being in a 2/4 meter
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Vishnu decided that our hamper needed 100% more cat hair and as his less than stealthy machinations reveal, 100% more cat.
From the article on Reality Check.
“Abortion is often framed as a mercy bestowed upon a woman who has committed the “crime” of having had sex. Mercy is something that someone else grants you, however, and not something you can simply decide for yourself that you deserve. That’s what people are stabbing at when they say they don’t want women to use abortion “as birth control.” The fear is that a woman might get an abortion without feeling remorseful or may, gasp, even feel like she’s entitled to it without having to apologize or grovel. Basically, people are uneasy with leaving the decision of whether or not an abortion is deserved to the woman seeking it herself. What a lot of people in the gray area between pro- and anti-choice want is for women to have to justify themselves in order to get abortions, even if it’s something as simple as making women feel ashamed of themselves for what they supposedly did wrong.
The problem with that, beyond the inherent sexism of it, is that there’s no real legal way to make women justify themselves, besides maybe making them sign a piece of paper that says, “I’m sorry I was a naughty girl who had sex. Can I please have my abortion now?” Roe v Wade sets things like time limits and Planned Parenthood v Casey says that there can be no “undue burden” to access, but the court decisions that shape abortion law don’t speak to “good” vs. “bad” reasons to have abortions, and for good reason. Abortion is medical treatment. It goes against basic medical ethics to require a patient to argue their moral worth before they are permitted access to health care they require.”
I’d like to quote-mine the christian apologist Francis Spufford for his thoughts on religion when he says that:
That we’re [the religious] too stupid to understand the irrationality of our creeds. That we build absurdly complex intellectual structures, full of meaningless distinctions, on the marshmallow foundations of a fantasy.
It’s so nice when they get something right. I mean statistically…monkeys typewriters and shakespearally-speaking – the deluded nailing it correctly is bound to happen sooner or later.
However, today[quotemined religious apologists aside] is not that day.
Today we revel in a cosmic truth filled to the brim with truthiness, that will make our deluded friend eat their hats. It is wondrous feature on a cosmic scale and it is epic victory for the forces of Atheism everywhere.
Behold!
For the people who think this stuff works… With many thanks to Cool Hard Logic for such a engaging presentation.
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