I know seven physicists who by chance live where I do in a Portland, Oregon retirement community. I haven’t run this by them, but I came up with what may be a new concept in physics. I know about how various discoveries in physics have altered the way ideas about time and space have changed.

I had a eureka moment after reading GOP Ducks Questions About Texas Woman Denied Abortion Despite Threat To Her Life which was the top story on HUFFPOST this morning. 

“I’m a federal official so I really don’t have a comment,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said about a high-profile court ruling in his state.

These was a second article about how even Ann Coulter decried this Texas court decision.

I express my reaction in a riddle question.

When is a 10 foot pole a mile long?

The answer isn’t when it is on a light-speed ship. That would be some kind of Einsteinian physics.

The answer is when the pole is used to distance Republican politicians from the issue of abortion.

If you look up “everything’s bigger in Texas” on Google Images this is what you find.

What we see now is that one Texas woman and her plight facing possible death if she was forced to bring her pregnancy to term has become the face of the right to choice movement. In this case this shows that in Texas the “everything’s bigger” meme holds true as far as something that Republican’s have like their Senators, John Cornyn and Ted Criz, avoiding an issue they have to worry about.

Related from Salon:

Texas Republicans drove Kate Cox out of her own state. What her abortion story means for America

The conflict between a mother of two and Texas embodies the larger battle for the soul of America

(Cox) has illuminated the choice before us. Her torment by the state may sear into the public consciousness the understanding that freedom from oppressive government control is truly on the ballot in 2024. 

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