I posted earlier about the spreading fear among women and their supporters that the right wing’s drive to roll back women’s rights through the courts is reaching fruition with the Bush nominees. What is increasingly apparent is that the right wing also thinks its time has come.

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You come alert on a subway train in a bleak part of town you’ve never seen before. You don’t know why you’re there or how you got there. Thinking about it some more you realize you can’t recall anything that’s happened to you recently, or in fact anything that has ever happened to you, or what your own name is. You’re carrying a backpack; you open it up and it contains no ID or money, nothing with your name on it. It holds only a few cryptic items, a set of keys you don’t recognize, and a scrap of paper with a name and phone number you also don’t remember. The train stops. You’re at Coney Island, early in the morning, and you don’t know why you’re there, or who you are.

Now what?
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