Posted 1:13 PM by Gene

Yes, everyone wants to end these massacres, but to do so (if it could be done) would involve the kind of domestic spying and micromanagement of our lives that would be unconscionable. Besides, a country that can tolerate so many abortions seems to have found it within her increasingly withered self to tolerate these killings.

At least Lee is man enough to point a finger at both sides, but this has gone on for so long more than two sides may be to blame, and they've gone on long enough as to render such blame ascribing all but meaningless.

Ed Murrow rendered that line about "the fault, dear Brutus" into a politically correct joke, but it applies.