Culture Warriors category archive
“Legislative Thuggery” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., comments on Alabama’s attempt to ban all abortions, including those resulting from rape and incests. A snippet (emphasis added):
But then, it seems obvious that their larger target was never so-called “big government,” but rather, modernity itself, progress itself, change itself — the repeal of the 20th century. That was, remember, the century that saw African Americans finally win voting rights, gay people blow up the metaphorical closet and labor unions win higher wages and better conditions for American workers.
Republican Family Values 0
Once again, words fail me.
Toolkits for Toolkids 0
Gina Barreca suggests a motive for the current right-wing movement to impose criminal penalties on women and doctors who are involved in terminating pregnancies, whether the termination is through natural causes or abortion. A snippet:
Jesus! The Spam! 0
Just for grins and giggles, I am appending below the fold a spam comment that has been repeatedly appearing in my blog’s spam catcher for the last several weeks submitted as a comment to random posts by [fake names].
I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church before it went bucking fonkers.
These clowns represent no Christianity that I know. And that persons believe this demented drivel scares the bejesus out of me.
