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Find an obscure niche museum close enough for a day trip. (via Nag on the Lake)
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The niche museum site gives the first museum at 350 miles away. Hardly a day trip. There are several within an hour drive of me not listed.
Dark times ahead for women in the USA.
niche museum close enough for a day trip:
16 museums.
Six are in San Francisco, one in LA, total of 13 in California, plus one in Baja, Mexico.
Two in New Orleans, one is in Madagascar, which is a "day trip" for very few people.
One is east of the Mississippi. (not counting NO as being east or west of the Mississippi)
The map of niche museums is pretty funny.
Roe V Wade is not law, it is a court decision made almost 50 years ago. Legislatures pass laws. 16 states have the right to abortion in there constitution. Those states will not be affected by a SCOTUS decision. 26 states have limited abortion in some way. The US Congress has had 49 years to make abortion legal nationwide, and have failed to even bring such a bill to a vote. Granted, there have been very limited opportunities when such a bill might have passed both houses, but to never try to bring it to a vote? We know that most if not all conservatives would vote against such a bill, so which party has failed to present a bill codifying abortion as a right? Much like immigration, Congress has sat on their hands and allowed the conflicts to continue. Cowardly.
And is no one concerned with the threat to democracy brought about in leaking a draft to a Supreme Court decision? The silence from pundits and politicians is deafening. Apparently some billionaire buying a social media site is the end of democracy as we know it, but leaking this decision is not a problem.
Anonymous, the pundits are all over the leak, I've been reading them all morning.
Thirteen states have trigger laws that will outlaw abortion the minute the SCOTUS officially hands down the decision. And if republicans take both houses of congress this fall, they will bring up a bill to outlaw abortion nationwide.
The problem in congress is the filibuster. You can't get 60 votes for anything anymore.
Yeah, I put my address in the niche museum site, and the nearest was 91 miles, despite the fact that we have a well-publicized niche museum right here in town.
If we can tell women what to do with their bodies, then we can tell everyone to get a flippin' vaccination.
The abortion thing is just a misdirection. With the midterms coming up the dems don't have any chance of winning so they stir up something that isn't there.
Shout out to the International Cryptozoology Museum
in Portland, Maine The World's Only
and the Star Trek: Original Series Set Tour
in Ticonderoga, New York
Interesting thing going on with Instagram
links. Saw yesterday's comments - I had
no issue with viewing "Tanning". I can't
view today's and can no longer view
yesterday's. I think it's our friends
at The Facebook. Went directly to
Strange Planet - can view the homepage
but have to sign-in to view any posts.
That's new.
Not being on The Facebook, I still
used to regularly view a large number
of what I assumed were publicly open
sites. Last year I lost access to all
of them. Not my loss.
Instagram views now require an account
I live near San Francisco and have been to several of the niche museums listed, though it has some I have never heard of that I'll have to check out.
As people have mentioned, though, it isn't so good at listing museums in other locations. It looks like a one-person project. They should really open it up to suggestions and really make it a useful resource. (I would add the Museum of Failure in Los Angeles, though there are rumors that it is now closed. Tom Scott did a video the one in Sweden).
Here's a site that lists one museum in every state:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/51-weird-museums-across-the-u-s-one-for-every-110046510552.html
Good find, Newton!
This book on museums (all in the United States, IIRC) was published in 1994, so it's partially outdated, but has a much better selection, more evenly distributed:
The Cockroach Hall of Fame: And 101 Other Off-The-Wall Museums
(The Cockroach Hall of Fame is among those that have since closed.)
Roe V Wade: was this inevitable?
30 years ago I could have easily ended Roe V Wade. I read it and noticed the lawyers were showing off. They included a history of abortion and then the science. Problem. The science is no longer believed anymore. I told this to my attorney who has argued in front of the Illinois Supreme Court and has actually had lawyers disbarred ( a sign he is honest). I support abortion rights so kept my mouth shut. But this was inevitable. It is also obvious most people, pro or con, in all these years have never actually read it.
The conservative court approved Roe V Wade over preventing deaths of women. If it had stuck to that, it would still be effective. But the lawyers went too far and left a time bomb for anyone who bothered to read it.
My guess is the Senate will try to codify into law.
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