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What’s a pathological optimist to do when all about her is despair?
I just read today’s New York Times opinion section, after which I dipped into the readers’ comments, as I always do. Despair, hopelessness, monumental depression — about us, the United States. Secession, too, had its proponents among my fellow readers, … Continue reading
Posted in Guns in the U.S. of A., Human rights, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged "Pushkin Hills", Andrey Kurkov, Brown v Topeka, Chris Murphy, Jamelle Bouie, James Wood, Michelle Cottle, Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, Paul Krugman, secession, Sergei Dovlatov, The New Yorker, The Talk of the Town
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Correction: I am a one-issue voter on one issue
Women’s sovereignty, specifically our absolute right to choose what we do with our bodies. Anyone who suggests we don’t have that right is my enemy. I don’t vote for enemies.
The god problem: One New York Times reader comments on Alito and Roe
In response to a characteristically fine column on Alito and federalism by Jamelle Bouie, a frequent Times commenter wrote this: Anyone convinced that a human fetus is inserted with a soul by God at the moment of conception, and that … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, Judiciary, Politics, Pro choice, The Facts of Life, The god problem, Trumpism, voting and voting rights, War on women
Tagged Alito, Catholic Church, Jamelle Bouie, Roe, SCOTUS, separation of church and state
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