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I have also seen a truck with arrows painted, pointing left ("El Paso") and right ("El Smasho.")

This is why you should make sure to have at least one asshole of an animal friend. Easier to follow in the fog, if you can hear the fight between them and the others.

It doesn't have to be either / or, and it almost certainly isn't, especially since the mothers at highest risk of having a criminal child often can't get it together to abort even when it is legal. There's room for a lot of causes, which almost certainly include lead paint as well as abortion.

Did they dig him up and move him?

Read Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Humanity Has Gotten Less Violent" (not sure about the subtitle.) Things have gotten much better for almost everyone almost everywhere. It only seems worse because now we care about almost everyone, rather than just our families.