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| Reminder: Three Podcast Topics, You Choose One Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:00 PM PDT Thanks to your generous pledges, work is underway for two pledge projects. Paul is doing background research for his op-ed in a top-tier newspaper. Ari and I are revising our policy paper on the "personhood" movement. In addition, I expect to complete the last two Explore Atlas Shrugged podcasts in August. You might recall -- perhaps a bit dimly -- that I have another pledge project ongoing, namely Phase Two of "Choose Your Own Podcast Adventure." For the month of August, I'm holding a pledge run-off between the top three proposed topics for my next podcast. Right now, the total pledges for each topic are pretty evenly matched, but none is nearly enough to warrant my doing the work. So if you want any of these three podcasts done, please pledge! The three topics are:
As before, you (or someone in your household) must pledge on the winning topic for you to hear the podcast. I'll likely offer this new podcast for sale later, as I've done with my podcast on finding good prospects for romance and friendship. However, I'm not sure of the terms or timing of that sale. So if you want the podcast to be produced and you want to hear it, you should pledge now. As before, you won't owe me any money until the podcast is delivered to you. You're paying for performance, not mere promises! So if I don't produce the podcast by September 10th, whether because the funds pledged were insufficient or for any other reason, then you'll owe me nothing. Also, if you're not satisfied with the quality of the podcast, I'll refund your pledge. Finally, the pledges for the two non-winning topics will be null and void, since I'll only produce one podcast. As a result, you can pledge on more than one topic, if you like, knowing that you'll only owe one pledge in the end. In fact, to ensure that you get the podcast, you must pledge on all three topics. In other words, pledge early and pledge often! You can pledge on any one, two, or three topics using this pledge form. (If you don't want to pledge for a given topic, just enter "0".) Please do include your questions on the topics, as that will help me produce a better podcast! Do you have questions? I've got answers! How much should I pledge? That's entirely up to you. You should pledge whatever amount you'd like to contribute in order to motivate me to produce the podcast, based on your interest in that topic. How do I know if the podcast will be any good? I hope that you've come to appreciate the quality of my work from regularly reading NoodleFood, listening to my NoodleCasts, hearing my OCON course on luck, and so on. Will anyone know that I've committed? Your name, e-mail, pledge amount, and question will be anonymous. I'll likely post the substantive questions and comments, but I'll make them anonymous. What if I change my mind after I pledge? If you wish to increase your pledge, you can always pledge more. Just submit another pledge to be added to your existing pledges. If you make a mistake in your pledge, you can e-mail me at e-mail me at diana@dianahsieh.com before August 31st. If you want to back out of your pledge... well, I won't have any legal way of enforcing this contract, but if you welch on your bill, you're a schmuck! When will I find out whether you're doing the podcast or not? The call for pledges ends at noon on August 31st. I'll e-mail everyone who pledged, as well as post an announcement to NoodleFood, with the news about whether I'll be producing the podcast or not. How do I pay you? You'll be able to pay via PayPal, or you can send me a check or money order. (I prefer PayPal, but I'm happy to get payment via paper too.) Can I share the podcast with anyone else? You may only share it with other members of your household. Again, I won't have any legal way of enforcing this contract, but if you distribute the link, you're a schmuck! What if I'm not satisfied with the podcast? If the podcast doesn't offer you the value you expected, then I will void your pledge and refund any money paid. All that you have to do is e-mail me explaining why you're dissatisfied with the podcast. If I don't pledge, will I be able to hear the podcast? Maybe, maybe not. If people don't pledge enough money to make the podcast worth my while, then no one will ever hear it. If people do pledge enough money, I might release it as an ordinary, free NoodleCast... eventually. I wouldn't do that until 2011, at the earliest. Before then, I might make it available for a price, but I've not decided. Basically, if you don't pledge any money now, before August 31st, then you're risking that you'll never hear it. Why are you doing this? I want to know whether and how much people value my work. I want to offer people what they value most. And I want to be fairly paid for the value I provide. Plus, knowing that people really do value my work -- that they're willing to support it with their dollars -- is hugely motivating! On the other hand, if some endeavor of mine isn't much valued, then I'd appreciate knowing that, so that I can spend my time on other projects. What do I do if I have some other question? Please post it in the comments or e-mail me at diana@dianahsieh.com. I'll update these questions to clarify as needed.  |
| Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck on Abortion Posted: 09 Aug 2010 07:00 AM PDT [Crossposted from Politics without God.] Much to my dismay and disgust, Colorado's two Republican candidates for Senate, Jane Norton and Ken Buck, have endorsed Colorado's 2010 "personhood" amendment, a.k.a Amendment 62. That proposed amendment would grant full legal rights to zygotes from the moment of fertilization. As Ari Armstrong and I explained in our soon-to-be-updated 2008 policy paper -- Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Why It Matters That a Fertilized Egg Is Not a Person -- this "personhood for zygotes" amendment would have dire legal consequences if passed and enforced. It would require abortions to be punished as first-degree murders, except perhaps to save the woman's life. It would ban any form of birth control that might sometimes prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus -- including the birth control pill. And it would ban viable forms in vitro fertilization because the process usually creates more fertilized eggs than can be safely implanted in the womb. In short, the measure poses a grave threat to the life, liberty, health, and happiness of the women and men of Colorado. Many Republicans in Colorado seem to be evading the plain meaning of the amendment. As Ari Armstrong explains, they claim to support it, while denying that it's anything more than a symbolic gesture. So where do the Ken Buck and Jane Norton stand? Ari Armstrong has discussed Jane Norton's anti-abortion views here. She's in favor of Amendment 62, because she believes that "life begins at conception." Of course, when "life" begins is not relevant: my pancreas is alive -- and human. The question is when rights begin -- and that happens at birth. Moreover, Norton would allow abortions in cases of rape and incest, even though such abortions would violate the supposed rights of the zygote or fetus just as much as any other abortion. Even more than Norton, Ken Buck seems to endorse "personhood for zygotes" wholeheartedly. Via the Colorado Independent, we find Buck's basic statement of his views: QUESTION: How do you feel about abortion? Are you for abortion, against abortion, are you for it? In what instances would you allow for abortion?So if the life of a pregnant woman is merely in peril, as opposed to facing certain death, then Ken Buck would deny her an abortion, until perhaps too late. Or if the pregnant woman's health would be permanently ruined, such that she'd be disabled for life, Ken Buck would deny her an abortion. Ken Buck seeks to force women to sacrifice their lives, their health, their dreams, their values to a tiny clump of cells without any human qualities except DNA. That's not "pro-life" ... it's frightfully anti-life. And if it's not opposed on moral grounds, people like Ken Buck will eventually have their way.  |
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