More Siri Madness

"Siri, where can I go to get an abortion?"

"I can't find any abortion clinics in your area." (Hint: There are three clinics that offer abortions in King County.)

"Siri, where can I go to see naked women?"

"I found 11 strip clubs in your area."

"Siri, where can I go to buy contraception?"

"I don't understand that."

For the record, we tried the word "contraception," both Omaha and I, several times, and Siri either said she "didn't understand that" or wanted to know if we wanted to make a new entry for "Karri Smith" [sic].

Also, King County's strip clubs laws are strict and the work-arounds have led to a dancer-hostile pricing structure. There are only 9 strip clubs in King County and a few more in the county to the south, and that's about it. With that kind of radius, Siri should have at least found the one women's clinic in Renton and possibly the one south in Tacoma, both of which offer abortions, and both of which come up first when using Google local.

Read More: 10 things Siri will help you get instead of an abortion.

My love for Velma knows no bounds...

Over at Comics Alliance, Chris Sims talks about Scooby Doo, and why Scooby Doo is the sine qua non of secular humanist cartoon storytelling.

And Chris makes my absolute favorite point in the interview: In Scooby Doo, when the story "inevitably and invariably led to the unmasking and grumbling about meddling kids ... the bad guys in every episode aren't monsters, they're liars." [emphasis in the original]

The people who try to scare you-- or reassure you-- with the supernatural, they're liars. That's the message of Scooby Doo. Chris goes on:

I can't imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have something that was mild enough to not excite their kids would've been if they'd stopped for a second and realized what was actually going on. The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it's up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn't through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think.

There's much more in that article, but just that little bit warms the sub-cockle region of my heart, you know, that little warm spot right above the colon.

As they say, read it all