Yesterday, Nebraska passed two curious abortion laws. The first bans abortions after 20 weeks because fetuses “feel pain” and the other requires a woman have “mental health” screening before she can abort. Both laws were construed to prevent Nebraska from becoming the next Kansas and to press forward the Right to Life Crusade back into the Supreme Court to overturn Rove v. Wade.
There is something crass and congenitally wrong with continuing to produce live performances at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. President Lincoln was shot in the back of the head there by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. Why do Americans totemize the gory deaths of our leaders? The limousine President Kennedy was assassinated in is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
The final episode of Dexter on Showtime was a brutal end to a murderous season. Dexter, in case you don’t know, is a television series about a vigilante killer who works for the government solving murders while secretly killing murderers. The show celebrates the thrill of the kill. Dexter is a needlessly bloody show filled with few surprises, but the final episode was made more interesting by a rabbit punch killing.
Last night, President Obama told the world he was taking over where Dubya left off and was becoming the new War Prezzy.
Census worker Bill Sparkman was found hanged in the backwoods of Kentucky. He was 51. Was Bill’s death born of institutional hatred or did he die because of a misfiring consciousness?
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