Holdings

Future Treatment

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the right to an abortion devolved to the states, leaving much of the country without reproductive services of any kind that could be linked to the practice of abortion, and a few more fortunate states where women's reproductive rights continued to be respected.

Thus a ramshackle network of drivers grew up to serve the needs of women who wished to take advantage of services that could only be acquired in an often distant juristiction.

The drivers found themselves targeted by a self-described Christianist militia centered in the Southern states, whose purpose was to distrupt, fatally if necessary, the journey of these women.

SYFY network, 13 episodes…

Original Intent

No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.

Caught In Passing

Bear Up The Hill, September 2, 2007

Organizing Principles

The question of whether all the children recently kidnapped from their parents by ICE at the border as a feature of the Trump Administration's zero tolerance policy will ever be properly returned does occur.

I mean, didn't people who run the sort of outfit ICE aspires to be discover long ago that tattooing the arm provides ineradicable indentification?

(A simple bar code on the back of the wrist in this age might easily attach to all manner of information about its bearer, given the ubiquity of bar code reader technology. A properly labelled child would be difficult to lose track of given such a scheme.)

Any Headline Is Editorial

Text is always subtext.

Looking at you, journalism…

Bloomsday

Thanks again, Mr. Joyce.

Thanks, Comey

The Thankening

Wait, What?

Pentagon officials said that over the next three years, the Defense Department will take responsibility for all background investigations involving its military and civilian employees and contractors. But according to a U.S. official, the White House is expected to soon give the department authority to conduct security reviews for nearly all other government agencies as well.

— Pentagon to take over security clearance checks, Associated Press, May 31, 2018