Israel has let slip its dogs of war with a military invasion of Lebanon. If the idea is to wipe out Hezbollah, well, it didn’t work last time, it almost certainly won’t work this time, and it won’t work next time they try it, either. Biden was willing to get us out of Afghanistan. Why won’t he pump the brakes on this murderous partnership?
A judge in Georgia, Robert McBurney, struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban. Noting that many women don’t even know they’re pregnant at six weeks, McBurney wrote,
When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then – and only then – may society intervene.
For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.
It’s good to have jurists who’ve read the classics.
East Coast dock workers, as expected, went on strike at midnight yesterday. Higher wages are the headline ask, but the sticking point appears to be the union’s demand to ban automation in a field that’s automating rapidly in the rest of the world. If this tactic worked throughout history, all our sweaters would still be woven by hand.
Pete Rose, baseball’s boorish all-time hit king, was found dead in his Las Vegas home. I didn’t realize he lived there, but it’s a logical place for a guy who was banned for life for gambling to sell his memorabilia. Who’s more likely to overlook your vice than a bunch of guys who share it?
The floor’s yours.