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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Tuesday's Gone

 Somehow I missed posting yesterday. There was the shooting in the NY subway, and that got a lot more coverage than other recent, more fatal shootings. Because it happened in NYC, the nation's media landscape managed to push the Ukraine war below the fold.

We live in a country where it's going to be much easier to buy a gun and kill a bunch of people than to safely access reproductive care, including abortion. We've apparently made that decision that a zygote is more important than a group of adults on their way to work.

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