Just a warning, this could be labeled an offensive post.

So the other day I was walking around on Temple's wonderful campus with my friend and fellow cynic liberal Dana and outside the student center a lanky dude who looked a bit asymmetrical was leaning against a handmade sign that read: "God will punish the wicked." I did a double-take, but kept walking and we both commented on how weird it is that people can just make signs and stand around with them. I wonder if people like this have jobs? I imagine grocery stores rely on people like this to unload trucks late at night.

Whatever the case, we were a block away when we crossed the street in front of a truck that was slowly coming down one of the 2 one-way streets that cuts across campus. I glanced at the truck and I thought I saw images of red fruit. It looked quickly like watermelon and pomegranate and smashed strawberries and a baby head. And then I realized. It was a baby head.

It was a fucking abortion truck.

Now, it wasn't like an ice-cream truck, although later I wondered what the driver would have said if Dana and I had walked up and asked how much an abortion and a chocolate-vanilla twist cone with chocolate sprinkles would cost.

No, it was simply a billboard with fetuses that were obviously from late-term abortions. Either that or someone went digging through a dumpster at a high school prom to snap photos (did I just cross a line there?).

Yes, this was a protest truck. A guy was driving around campus with a huge, huge image of aborted babies on his truck. I felt that this was not appropriate. particularly since most abortions are done in the first trimester, before the fetus has a well-defined skull and fingers and looks like a kewpi doll covered in various red fruits.

Anyway, we were disgusted but not surprised that the use of such imagery would not be below the religious fanatics that seem to LOVE Temple University. Earlier in the semester I got into a pointless debate with a guy who was outside the library trying to argue that evolution was a myth (which is fine, if you want to bother) and that the Bible was a literal document. Yeah. the earth really is 6000 years old. which is why evolution is a myth -- it's not enough time to evolve from monkeys to humans. plus, as he said, a cow isn't gonna just give birth to a horse. that's crazy. yeah. they're everywhere.