Violence in Ecuador worsens

Ecuador is in an “internal state of war” after a spate of widespread, coordinated gang violence.

President Daniel Noboa has declared a sixty-day state of emergency.

The news is on Wikipedia’s main page. Whenever Ecuador is front-and-center there, I feel a twinge of pride, and then more often than not I weep (silently) because it’s because of something terrible. (Here is the Wikipedia article.)

There’s lots of official press coverage, of course.

Pray for Ecuador!

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In other news:

“BYU Offering New Taylor Swift-Inspired Philosophy Course.”

(“Philoswiftie” website.)

Move over, Immanuel Kant.