[It's] Trying to Understand the News

        Wanting to avoid a party, your spouse tells you, "You can't not go!"  Meaning?  You have to definitely go.  Two negatives make a positive.

        With complications in law and twists in events, newspaper accounts have LOTS of negatives:

       "A state appeals court panel Friday overturned a ban on the Los Angeles Police Deparment's controversial vehicle impound policy that restricts when officers can seize the cars of unlicensed drivers."

       I count SIX negatives (not only "no" or "not" is negative):  "overturned," "ban," "impound," "restricts," "seize" and "unlicensed."   I can't untangle it here, but it's about whether it's fair for people who legally cannot get driver's licenses to be fined and punished for driving without a license.

       Six negatives = positive!  Turns out it is unfair, and (most) illegal immigrants are free from fines and punishment for driving!  

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(The L.A. Times story with the sentence above can be read here.)