Oh No, Not Again

These two were keepers.

A new arrival from a galaxy far, far away would conclude after just a few days here that the only things American humans care deeply about are killing unborn babies and eating pizza. Of course this is silly: many people care about eating Mexican food, and Chinese is still quite popular, certainly among Jews. (I don't eat it because of the high salt content, but I would if I could, believe me.) As for the murder of babies, that's still numero uno, evidenced in the current hearings being held on Capitol Hill pertaining to the most recent nominee to our country's highest court. Does he or doesn't he support abortion is the question on the lips and minds of every dinosaur -- oops, I mean senator -- grilling Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's pick for the Supreme Court.

Seriously, are there not other issue to worry about? And the dinosaurs aren't the only ones who are worried. A group of alumni of Yale Law School (which Kavanaugh attended) wrote a public letter to the school saying, "People will die if Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed." The "people" they mean are the pregnant women denied the procedure if it becomes illegal, forcing them to undergo an illegal one which will kill them. (Something about coat hangers.) Of course, other "people" will surely die if abortion continues to be legal: There were 926,190 abortions performed in the US from 2015 to 2017, each one resulting in a death.

As Kavanuagh himself has said several times, abortion is a done deal, so let's move on. (I think he used the term "settled law.") Happily my opinion doesn't matter. All I know for sure is that I prefer pizza to Chinese, and actively dislike Mexican.