This is just to say

[rivka]

I'm not doing very well.

I'm crying at work.

Thoughts of miscarriage keep crossing my mind. Not as in, wanting to have one, but as in, how could the baby possibly live through this?

I know that's crazy.

But when the majority of my fellow Americans have given their stamp of approval to the architects of Abu Ghraib, where can I find hope? How can I be a parent in this world?

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[journeywoman.livejournal.com]

For years I've debated whether to have a child because of the state of the world. But I think it's exactly people like us, who think about these things and who question what sort of future we could give a child, who should be breeding. We can model the kind of lives that we wish everyone would lead, and hope that our children follow in our footsteps.

That said, I do live 20 minutes from Canada, and I'm always prepared to bolt for the border. Especially now that the majority of my fellow Americans have proven what I've long suspected: they're idiots.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

On the train home to Canada yesterday, ten minutes before the Canadian border, the train was stopped by US border guards doing an "exit check". They didn't do more than look at my passport, but they were asking Americans where they came from, where they worked, how long they were going to be in Canada, and looking at their quantities of luggage and return tickets.

If you know they're doing this, you can get around it, if you're trying to escape... I can't believe I just wrote "trying to escape". I don't want to be thinking this way. Tinfoil hats... but... while Canadian law won't protect you, Canada has yet to actually agree to extradite anyone who has applied for asylum, whether they qualify or not. Public feeling would be with you. There isn't room for 49% of the US here, and I only have one spare bed, but...

[journeywoman.livejournal.com]

On the train home to Canada yesterday, ten minutes before the Canadian border, the train was stopped by US border guards doing an "exit check".

Wow. That is very creepy. But perhaps they were looking for someone specific? I cross the border a fair amount to attend dog trials, and have never been stopped by US customs when leaving the country.

I hope the situation never gets so bad that Americans must escape from their own country. I joke about our proximity to the border with my friends in town, and that Bush will trump up some emergency at the end of his 2nd term, impose martial law, and proclaim himself dictator ... but I don't seriously believe it. Most of the time.