I’ve encountered no less than a dozen highly publicized wrongful death cases involving police officers this year. Not once did I make or even hear a call for the national defunding of the police force. Recently some damning footage has surfaced showing a Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast exec basically selling harvested tissue. This is wrong on every level, but it doesn’t match what happened as a result. The senate moved to defund Planned Parenthood. Now I’m clearly not giving the whole story—Repubs have been pushing for a PP defund vote for a long time, but the fact is this polarized environment allows everything to serve as a catalyst for absolute response.
What ever happened to moderation?
I remember being raised under the banner of ‘don’t throw the baby out with the bath water’. The core philosophy of my youth was nuance. Nothing existed under a black and white dichotomy, yet now everything exists in the vein. If you have a problem with something, destroy it. We are a disposable society in that way…
Some Thoughts:
- There is something really wrong with Ted Cruz’s appearance. I’m not sure if it is bad plastic surgery or what, but the dude makes me very uncomfortable.
- Since we are on the subject of the political realm, the Trump thing doesn’t seem real to me, but it is. In fact, I have a real fear that Trump has the sort of ‘it factor’ to draw a new demographic to the polls and use that to catapult into a legitimate candidacy. The base has flipped. Today I heard a republican pundit call Jeb Bush ‘almost hispanic’ because he has a Hispanic wife. They are reaching for anything that draws in enough people to break the Hillary-hold.
- Recently I published a story that features flooding in India. I short sold the conditions. Today I heard about two trains swept off the road by flooding out there. Conditions in many parts of the world are so bad that it makes me feel very guilty to have space and comforts…. This laptop is a comfort.