Blogaround

1. All of the Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fake, Report Finds (posted March 16) "All of the 16 fragments, says Loll in a statement, exhibited 'characteristics that suggest they are deliberate forgeries created in the twentieth century with the intent to mimic authentic Dead Sea Scroll fragments.'"

2. Fake animal news abounds on social media as coronavirus upends life (posted March 20) "If there’s a silver lining of the pandemic, people said, this was it—animals were bouncing back, running free in a humanless world. But it wasn’t real."

3. The Legal Storms Around ‘The Secret’ (posted March 19) "Gosh, that whole Law of Attraction thing didn’t work out too well for either of them."

4. Abortion Opponents: Is Saving Lives Worth the Disruption? (posted March 24) "I have rarely seen arguments that so directly refute all of conservatives’ pro-life claims." Libby Anne is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

Another quote from her post: "I am beyond baffled that anyone would think that the social distancing we are currently putting in place is more disruptive than being pregnant. It isn’t. It really, really isn’t. Being pregnant is far more disruptive. Why is it okay to disrupt women’s lives to save a life, but suddenly questionable to disrupt other lives to save millions of lives?" Yes. 1000% agree. I just did a whole pregnancy (and now I have a little son)- a planned and wanted pregnancy with no complications threatening my long-term health- and OH MY GOD it was AWFUL. It was THE WORST. I hated being pregnant so much. Comparing that with working from home for a few months... there's no comparison. And apparently now we got "pro-life" men writing about how we need to let our grandmas die, you know, for convenience.

Fortunately this seems to be a very small minority of conservatives, not a very common widespread opinion.