Dr Tiller was one of the few doctors in the USA providing late term abortions (SotBO: which are sometimes sadly necessary and usually involve a traumatic crisis in a wanted pregnancy). He has long been a target of anti-choice activism, including being shot before.
He was murdered as he attended his church for the Sunday morning service. A suspect is now in custody.
I was looking for something else entirely, and happened across this. The past winter was the first time in 12 years that the Gouwsea in the Netherlands has frozen enough to allow skating, and everyone who could got out there to play.
I am so going to try and get a shot like this the next time there’s dewdrops about.
This group has a very simple ethos:
Jazz Hands!! Post your photos of jazz hands – no limit!
Tuzz and her evil sister zzuT originally uploaded by vanstaffs on Flickr Caption suggestions?
Today’s Asian Short Clawed otters are via the UK’s Telegraph. The triplets were born at Chessington Zoo to parents Guinevere and Lancelot. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great… Read More ›
Hey, this looked bigger in the catalogue! Actual caption: Tobias Meyer of Sotheby’s talks about Baroque Egg with Bow by Jeff Koons at the auction house in New York Picture: AFP/GETTY From the Daily Telegraph’s The week in pictures: 1… Read More ›
Julie Zickefoose was thrilled to spot giant Amazon otters in the wild in Guyana. These otters only survive in numbers – and not large numbers, at around 5000 individuals – in Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, in a fragile rainforest… Read More ›
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