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Editorial note: In view of the terrorist attack in Nice, Wednesday's column seems quite pertinent, so I'm linking to it here. I'll have a full column on the subject on Monday. What follows was written hours before the Nice incident.
These are dark days for the Republic – and the world – what with war clouds looming on every horizon and a miasma of menace hanging over us in our everyday lives. The other day as I considered going to the Sonoma County Fair I was suddenly struck by the not unreasonable fear that Something Might Happen – a deranged shooter, perhaps, out to prove an utterly deranged point. I checked myself: what am I thinking? Is life now totally crazy? Do I want to live in a society where it's not paranoid to have such thoughts? And yet …
And yet this morning, as I wondered what I'd be writing about today, I scanned the headlines and saw a number of bright spots in otherwise darkening skies. Perhaps they're underscored by the general bleakness, but in any case they're there. Here are a few: