At least the red and green is shining at Marina City

I read an article lately that reported that abortion  was down in the United States and I wondered if this was because of all the abortion clinics that have been shut down in the red states.  But no,  if that were the case the birthrate would have gone up and it hasn't.  The writer's theory is that birth control has become so ubiquitous that unwanted pregnancies are not happening as often as they once were.  My memory was that the morning after pill is currently available, and looking it up I was confronted by a plethora of ads from drug stores.  It was pretty cheap and did not require a doctor's prescription so I bet that it has cut into the abortion rates.

Speaking of birth rate, it's at an all time low.  The only thing keeping us growing is immigration, but let's not bring that up today.


I wonder what the story was behind Michigan abolishing the death penalty in 1962, that was not a particularly liberal time in the country.  I guess they figured as Beagles said before that they had lived without it for so long and had no problems why bring any up now.  Actually that was one of my arguments in the great Marina City Christmas lights controversy of this summer, why bring up a law that we have gotten along without for so long and there has been no trouble.  And now that the Christmas season is here I see a lot of colored lights hanging from the balconies and those threatening announcements have not appeared in the elevators.  Another one of my arguments was that if it was so hard to overturn this rule why not just not enforce it, and they all threw up their arms in dismay, why that would be anarchy.  But now the lights are gleaning and nobody is saying boo and blood is not running down the aisles of Marina City.  Maybe they just didn't want some upstart telling them nothing.


I guess there are more impeachment hearings going on today.  I don't know why.  The dems lay out over and over the simple story of Trump withholding aid to get Zalensky to announce an investigation, and the republicans scream about the procedure, the whistleblower, debunked conspiracy theories, when to call a lunch recess, whatever, anything  but the case at hand.  Then the dems repeat more forcefully the case and the reps more forcefully obfuscate and so on and so on, and meanwhile the needle of public opinion does not seem to be moving, and I fear we are charging into the valley of death.  But the prez is likely to do something nuts to make a circus of the senate, and we are playing a long game beyond the Senate and into the 2020 elections so there is yet hope brother.