It's for your own good.

Anna Quindlen writes in Newsweek: How much jail time for women who have abortions? Quindlen raises an interesting point, that even the most adamant pro-lifers (or abortion-should-be-illegalers) have trouble advocating jail time for women who've had abortions (if abortion were illegal).

"Is the message that women are not to be held responsible for their actions? Or is it merely that those writing the laws understand that if women were going to jail, the vast majority of Americans would violently object? Watch the demonstrators in Libertyville try to worm their way out of the hypocrisy: It's murder, but she'll get her punishment from God. It's murder, but it depends on her state of mind. It's murder, but the penalty should be ... counseling?"

An interesting article about human brains and computing, from Wired: For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU. It's about Luis von Ahn, the guy who invented the captcha, among other things. One of the developments mentioned in the article is this esp game, which (aside from being fun) uses human intelligence to label images on the web. I played it for awhile, but I kept getting frustrated with the people I was playing with, as in, are they stupid? Are they some kind of tagging moron? Now that I am almost graduated from library school, I have trouble giving other people the emotional support and space needed to assign quality metadata.