Unfortunate Juxtaposition

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A few days ago, I was in downtown Palo Alto and saw one of those double-length buses pass by (the ones that are two bus-lengths and are connected by that rubbery-looking joint).

As is normally the case these days, there was a large advertisement on the side of each bus. The front bus had a billboard seen very frequently around here, showing a somewhat sad looking child and a headline that starkly reads, "There is a child diagnosed with autism every 20 minutes."

The back bus also had a billboard which was, my hand to God, the following: