The week's best columns, reports, tips, referrals and tirades from columnist Eric Zorn.
Savor the 10 best tweets of the week and see if you don't agree that, narrowly, the best one is "Give a man a compliment and you feed his ego for a day; teach him how to fish for compliments and you feed his ego for a lifetime" by @dubiousgenius.
Last week's winner was @CulturedRuffian for "Always be tolerant of your wife's flaws because if she didn't have them, maybe she could have gotten a better husband," which I wouldn't know because my wife is flawless. Ahem.
 Today's column: Who would be punished for abortion in a post-Roe America? takes off from the controversy over the pundit who was sacked from the Atlantic for suggesting women who get abortions ought to be hanged and delves into data presented in my friend Michelle Oberman's new book, "Her Body, Our Laws." My editor rejected as too flip my suggested headline "No noose is good news in the abortion debate." Assorted impoverished women would be punished or inconvenienced should Roe v. Wade be overturned and certain states ban abortion, but the evidence strongly suggests that abortion rates wouldn't drop, birth rates wouldn't rise, prosecutions would be rare and convictions would be rarer still.
 I got a lot of response to my Sunday column, Frame by frame: Takeaways from a careful look at the University of Chicago police shooting video. Many readers — who had only been paying superficial attention to my work over the years, I must conclude — were pleasantly surprised by my highly skeptical take of the protests at U-Chicago suggesting that the police officer was in the wrong during a fortunately non-fatal shooting of a student last week. Those of us who watch the bodycam video of a campus police officer shooting an out of control student over and over have the luxury of hitting pause, taking stock of the moment, pondering all the options, then moving the action forward for a fraction of a second, hitting pause and thinking it all through again, all with the benefit of hindsight. This officer had no such luxury. Even still, I find it difficult to second guess his actions. Friday's column talked about how long it's been since primary election night, when the GOP gubernatorial contenders should have begun to bury the hatchet but didn't: How is Gov. Rauner in trouble? Let me count the days. Primaries are bruising, the rhetoric is heated and unity breakfasts are polite agreements to ignore the preceding ugliness and pretend the ideological differences are minor, That rhetorical salve is important. Parties with open, infected wounds have a hard time getting healthy by the time voters go to the polls. Every day that goes by with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner refusing to apologize and his former challenger Rep. Jeanne Ives refusing to offer a single nice word about him is a day for the Democrats to celebrate. |
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