Culture Warriors category archive
North Carolina’s Trojan Toilets 0
Thom and a caller discuss some of the implications of North Carolina’s “It’s Okay To Hate the Gay” law, such as capping the minimum wage, implications that have received little notice in the furor over bodily functions.
Variety Homogeneity Vacationland
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At the Raleigh News & Observer, Jai Kumar, immigrant son of immigrant parents currently attending graduate school at UNC, cuts to the essence of North Carolina’s wingnuttery. A snippet:
Read the rest.
A Ticket To Rude 0
One more time, persons who complain about “political correctness” want nothing more than license to be offensive without penalty.
Help Me Out Here 0
I’m working on song to propose to North Carolina for a new state song. I’ve managed to come up with the first few lines, but now I’m stuck.
Golden showers fill my dreams.
I am preoccupied with streams.
Sleep, Pretty Baby, do not cry,
I will ensure that you stay dry.
I’m not really into golden showers, not being a North Carolina Republican, so assistance is appreciated.
More Tales of the Tarheel Potty Police 0
Elsewhere, Daniel Ruth marvels at the loo loonies.
Meanwhile, The Bob and Chez Show Blog offers a pictorial representation of North Carolina’s golden showers fetish:
Anointed with (Snake) Oil 0
I never trust persons who say that God is on their side.
I sometimes will trust persons who say that they are trying to be on God’s side.
The Scalias of Justice 0
At Above the Law, Elie Mystal predicts that many Republicans will hold their noses and support Donald Trump because of existing and potential Supreme Court vacancies. Here’s one of the more low-key bits:
Guns, abortions, and gays. “GAG” orders. That’s what the conservatives want the Court for. They are willing to put a xenophobic, snake oil salesman in the Oval Office so long as NOBODY has to bake a cake for a gay person.
Do read the rest.
P. M. 0
Ed, at Gin and Tacos, reflects on the Republican Trumpocalyse. It’s a biting summary.
Here’s how he concludes it; follow the link to see why:
He’s quite correct, you know.
The Purpose of the Potty Police 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., in considering the nuances of privacy in locker rooms and other facilities, gets to the point (emphasis added):
That’s because protecting children is not the point. The exploitation and manipulation of fear is.