Follow Up on Komen v. PP

[jamesq]

Follow up to this:

"Karen Handel, a vice president with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, resigned her position Tuesday after a controversy over funding for Planned Parenthood projects, the foundation said."

Source.

Source also points out that it was, in fact, her idea and that she did craft the wording specifically to stop funding Planned Parenthood, but make it look non-political. This was a calculated attack.

Hopefully this kills her political prospects, though I suspect she'll portray herself as a martyr to the cause.

On the bright side, Planned Parenthood got a boost in their fundraising thanks to the huge backlash that Ms. Handel's ill-advised ban caused.

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[missymorgan1.livejournal.com]

The backlash suggests that some worms may be turning....or, in another metaphor, the pendulum has hit its apex and started its swing in the other direction.

My friend Giavanna pointed out once that decade cultural shifts actually run slightly out of phase with their calendrical counterparts; that is,frex, that the hippie/free love/swinging sixties actually run more from 65 to 75, which means that we should be emerging from the conservative/big biz crazy fog just about now and moving to centre, with a liberal or leftist excess hitting around 2018 and peaking at the 2020 mark.

Of course, this assumes some catalyst event doesn't derail the process. If big biz gets a brain and some self-preservational instincts, we might avoid the excess part. OTOH, if some accelerating environmental shift comes into play, it might morph into an eco-warrior vision somewhat. Or some other apocalytical scenario, of which there are many.

Of course, in five years, we might all just be serfs grubbing a subsistence living on the edges of those big gated communities, and hoping that the terrorists don't lay waste to our crops next summer. What do I know?