Maybe more important than what I’m writing about today is what I’m not writing about: I’m not analyzing polls and trying to predict who will win the election.
One thing I often warn against on this blog is speculation: It can eat up all your time and drive you nuts. And since no one actually knows what’s going to happen, speculating about it usually serves no purpose beyond entertainment. So if you enjoy trying to forecast things in a who’s-going-to-win-the-World-Series way, feel free. It’s harmless. But it’s also unproductive. One way or another, the election will happen and we’ll find out then who wins.
Personally, I find that I’m not enjoying whatever time I spend on speculation. Predictions, good and bad alike, just raise my anxiety. So I’m trying to avoid them.
Speculation also has an addictive quality. Anxiety about the future just leads to looking for more speculation to find reassurance, which usually just raises more anxiety. A better way to assuage your anxiety is to do something. Vote early. Write a check. Encourage your apathetic friends to vote. Volunteer.
So anyway, what am I covering this week. First, because the election isn’t the only thing happening in the world, I read the 199-page lawsuit three red states filed to roll back the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. I know, you thought that lawsuit got dismissed. But that was on a technicality, which this lawsuit tries to fix. And it mostly does fix the technical problem, but it also introduces some truly creepy arguments that aren’t getting nearly enough attention. Like this: Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho are complaining that their teen pregnancy rates aren’t high enough.
So anyway, that reading led to the article “Mifepristone, round 2”, which is done and should post shortly.
My second featured post this week looks at how Trump seems to be coming apart the closer the election gets. That’s “Trump’s Weird Week”, and it should appear between 10 and 11 EDT. The weekly summary ten has a lot of odds and ends, and should post around noon.
The Weekly Sift 
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“A better way to assuage your anxiety is to do something. Vote early. Write a check. Encourage your apathetic friends to vote. Volunteer.”
Yes, yes, yes. Figure out something that you can do that actually affects the outcome.
” Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho are complaining that their teen pregnancy rates aren’t high enough.”
This is precisely the justification for the autocratic/theocratic government of Gilead, and why it makes women property of the state.
Daddy knows what’s best for his little girls, and what’s best is being a breeder whether you want to be one or not; nor does it matter how you got pregnant in the first place or the risks to you of being so.