Culture Warriors category archive
Droning On 2
Say “Hi!” to the eye in the sky.
. . . and you can bet it’s just going to get worse.
Afterthought:
If I ever become a Peeping Tom, I think I’ll call myself an “anti-prostitution activist.” It sounds ever so much more civilized.
“Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” 0
Judge Richard Posner points out that there appears to be a thumb weighing down the Scalias of justice.
American Taliban 0
BadTux points out what should be, but apparently isn’t, the obvious:
The thing is, lies have consequences, and dead people is one of the usual consequences.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Blank Check 0
One more time: Persons who whine about “political correctness” want permission to offend without penalty.
None Dare Call It Terrorism 0
If white right-wingers do it, it is ipso facto not terrorism. After all, they are white, not brown.
That’s how it works, isn’t it?
Also, in more news of not terrorism . . . .
Facebook Frolics 0
The farcical War on Christmas goes international.
“No Religious Test” 0
Oh, wait. Funny or Die has gotten hold of the Republican Party’s proposed religious test for immigrants.
Follow the link to find out whether you would pass.
God, Grits, and Guns 0
Ron Littlepage is taken aback. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
The outstanding quote of last week has to go to state Rep. Matt Gaetz.
He’s pushing a bill that would allow the 1.4 million Floridians who have concealed carry gun permits to openly carry their firearms.
During a House committee debate on the legislation, Gaetz had this to say, according to Politico Florida:
The bill restores a right “granted not by government but by God.” Say what?
As someone who was raised in the Baptist church and who graduated from a Baptist university, Baylor, I’ve read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations more than once.
But I must have missed the part about God coming out in favor of open carry.
Jeez Louise, you can’t make this stuff up.
As a Southerner, I often find myself resenting the way white Southerners* are portrayed as dumbass hicks. Even when I was a kid, I couldn’t stand the Beverly Hillsillies.
It’s been a theme since the earliest days of film and, later, broadcast media (we won’t even talk about print). Find any old radio or television comedy show with a character from the South, you will find a dumbass hick. Heck, Tennessee Ernie Ford made a fortune playing dumbass hicks. Even Andy Griffith achieved his first great success as a dumbass hick in No Time for Sergeants. And don’t forget Jim Nabors and George Lindsey.
But, honest to Pete, as long as a great lot of white Southerners continue act like dumbass hicks, I have to concede that they are asking for it.
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*The portrayal of black Southerners is another, much more evil story.
Chris-Crossed, Kick ‘Em While They’re Down Dept. 0
Mike Kelly considers Chris Christy’s Bully’s Pulpit:
So listen up. Uncle Chris is talking. He had quite a lot to say last week.
Christie, who made his political bones and attracted national attention by picking on teachers, has a new and even weaker group to attack – refugees from war.
Do please read the rest.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.
American Taliban 0
Megan Phelps-Roper, a granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, left that “church” a few years ago. Recently, she read an article about ISIS in the Atlantic. Here’s part of what she had to say.
Follow the link to learn why she says that.
Thoughtlessness 0
If there is one thing the United States of America has done well, from internment camps for Americans of Japanese descent to HUAC to demonizing ladies named after an ancient Egyptian goddess to cowering at the sight of a child, it is to violate its stated ideals when it’s a-skeert, even when what it’s a-skeert of is based on a hoax.
Just look around. It’s the Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave.
I am ashamed of my country.