Abortion Law

This is a post about abortion. It's spurred by a Parliamentary vote on tightening British abortion laws (already not particularly lax). I suggest you avoid reading this if you are anti-abortion; I am pro-choice, and this is a post about my frustration with people who aren't. I'm venting, and I'm not looking for a debate. This means that if you leave a comment telling me I'm wrong, I'm both going to delete it and going to be angry with you, because I warned you not to read the entry. I'm in a bad mood already.

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Some Kind of Space-Age Material

The hostel where I live is generous enough to supply us with towels - one per person per term, ordinarily, to be laundered by us. My towel has just been unexpectedly replaced by housekeeping, and the new towel is something special. I can run my face back and forth across its entire surface, and my face will still be wet. It is perhaps made of an unabsorbent soft plastic which only resembles cotton.