>>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/opinion/restoring-bathroom-sanity-in-north-carolina.html
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>>This was the lead editorial in the New York Times today.
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>>There are people killing each other in the cities of the US.
>>The police in Trenton and Philadelphia, just minutes away from me, are probably answering gunshot calls as I'm typing this.
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>>Families are being destroyed by the epidemic of opiate addiction.
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>>American GI's are dying in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
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>>40-50 year old fathers of school age children are checking out groceries in supermarkets.
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>>Our roads, bridges, tunnels, railroads and airports are below third-world standards.
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>>And the most influential newspaper in the US, and perhaps the world, thinks that the most important issue of the day is where someone can pee?
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>>How wrong do we have to be before someone says "Are we out of our minds?"
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>The NYT may be out of their minds... why tar everyone else with the same brush?

Good question, Al.
Sometimes we New Yorker's or ex New Yorkers think that the Times speaks for the world.
It doesn't.
However, it does speak for a lot of influential people.