When I worked at a state crime lab, we had inmates cutting the grass. It was a large area and they used riding mowers. We were told we had nothing to worry about from them - they were near the ends of their sentences and had demonstrated good behavior so they got riding lawn mower duty, which is more fun than a laundry or kitchen job. They wouldn’t do anything nefarious that would extend their sentences or bump them back to a crappier assignment.
That is interesting, agreed. It never occurred to me that jail doesn’t have a yard, though if pressed I would have known that. Just never put it together how much more of a bummer that is.
Saw this in the San Antonio Express-News today –
Maybe this is a gift link --who knows?
Ken Paxton walks back IVF stance, saying he’s open to restrictions that could limit access
By Casey Murray, Austin BureauJuly 2, 2026
Attorney General Ken Paxton is walking back his full-throated support for in vitro fertilization, saying he backs restrictions that could limit access to the treatment for many people who are trying to have children.
Paxton told the Washington Examiner over the weekend that “we need to have restrictions, so that we don’t lose fertilized eggs, if that’s possible.”
The stance puts him closer in line with anti-abortion advocates and the state GOP, which recently adopted anti-IVF language into its platform, calling for lawmakers to address “destructive practices, such as IVF.” The treatment has become a hot-button issue because it sometimes results in discarded embryos.
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My bold.
First of all, Washington Examiner. 'Nuff said.
Next, Ken is trying to suck up to play all sides of the issue. Typical.
Third, and what really caught my eye: is he saying that fertilized eggs are the property of the State? “SO WE DON’T LOSE…” Who the fuck is WE?
That phrase “limit access to the treatment” perfectly summarizes the inherent cruelty that is the life force of Republicans.
Consistent with the RW Xian abortion stance he’s saying fertilized eggs are full-up human beings. And so entitled to the same protections as you or I am. So nobody dan no thing has the right to kill them or endanger them. The state must intervene to prevent that. Just as they try to intervene to keep you from being robbed or assaulted.
It’s just one toke under the line from Monty Python’s “Ev’ry sperm is sacred; ev’ry sperm divine”.
Never happen. That would interfere with men’s reproductive organs.
Yes, it’s only okay when it takes away women’s rights.
As long as they’re fertilized eggs. If and when they’re gestated and born, they’re on their own. Or a drain on society, if they don’t have rich parents (natural or adoptive).
Oh, yeah. The RW Xian crowd cares far more about the 9 months inside Mom than the 70-ish years after they emerge.
Which is the tell that makes it obvious they don’t give two shits about the kid pre- or post-birth. Or even 70 years later in retirement.
But boy howdy, are they fired up about managing Mom’s sex and reproduction behaviors. With zero input from her.
Bastards.
There’s some bitches too, for reasons I don’t understand
Or more precisely, when it controls women’s reproductive organs.
Yeah, they don’t like women’s rights but controlling their ability to procreate is crucial to the right.