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Opinion: Train wrecks! Embryos! Moonshot! Layoffs! The news stops for no one

Photo/Charity Rachelle/The New York Times / A rally in support of in vitro fertilization organized by Fight for Alabama Families is held outside the Alabama State House in Montgomery on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Alabama lawmakers are racing to protect routine IVF practices, moving to assuage families after a State Supreme Court ruling held that frozen embryos should be considered children, forcing at least three clinics to halt treatments.
Photo/Charity Rachelle/The New York Times / A rally in support of in vitro fertilization organized by Fight for Alabama Families is held outside the Alabama State House in Montgomery on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Alabama lawmakers are racing to protect routine IVF practices, moving to assuage families after a State Supreme Court ruling held that frozen embryos should be considered children, forcing at least three clinics to halt treatments.

With all the news swirling lately, here’s a quick roundup of what you might have missed:

The Alabama Supreme Court, which looks like a Baptist preacher convention subcommittee appointed to police dirty dancing betwixt the young ‘uns, voted that unused in-vitro fertilized eggs were to be treated as human. Things have changed in ‘Bama. Once there was the KKK, a group of guys in white robes who scared the hell out of Blacks. Now the state’s Supreme Court is a bunch of white guys in black robes who scare the hell out of white people.

On the bright side, frustrated want-to-be mothers in Alabama can look forward to next year’s Bring Your Embryo to Work Day.

The University of Texas took down four Confederate statues. What makes it worse is that all four entered the portal to play for Ole Miss.

Biden visited a cemetery in Delaware and opened his campaign headquarters there. It was a great PR stunt until the graveyard checked his vital signs and made him show an ID before he was allowed to leave.