Culture Warriors category archive
“Alien Invasion” 0
The Bangor Daily News’s Chris Busby worries about the little green men . . . .
“Oh, my God,” I thought. “The federal government” — long suspected of hiding evidence of extra-terrestrial contact on secret bases in the Nevada desert — “has shipped the spawn of space creatures into our state without alerting the local authorities!”
(snip)
Well, as you can imagine, I was plenty embarrassed when I read the article more closely and realized the “aliens” LePage was warning us about are actually poor little kids from Central America, not gator-faced gremlins from Alpha Centauri.
Read the rest.
Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.
Great Moments in Religious Freedom 0
A faith-based IPO to die for.
Suffer the Children 0
Aside:
Coverage of the border situation would be improved if the children were referred to accurately as “refugees,” for they seek refuge, though they are met with refusal.
“Compassionate Conservatism” . . . 2
. . . is an oxymoron, as Colbert points out (video below the fold because it autoplays).
Hate sells. Conservatism sells hate, and conservatives eagerly buy it.
For the life of me, I do not understand how hate became a “Republican family value.”
Suffer the Children 0
In related news, Steven M. tracks down those responsible for spreading rumors that the immigrant children are a bunch of Typhoid Marys. It’s the usual bunch of wingnut bigots and fear-mongers.
Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.
What Was Old Is New Again, Suffer the Children Dept. 2
Werner Herzog’s Bear, writing at Notes from the Ironbound, sees echoes of the past in the current wingnut hysteria about an influx of brown children at the border. A nugget–follow the link for the rest:
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing. (Ask me nicely, I’ll tell you what I really think.)
Image via Balloon Juice.
No Carnivores Need Apply 0
Rekha Basu considers the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision to green-light theocracy.
Apparently I could, if you follow the U.S. Supreme Court’s logic in a ruling Monday that a company should not be forced to subsidize an activity that offends its owners’ religious beliefs.
Do read the rest.
Suffer the Children 0
For Republicans, it’s not a quotation from the Bible. It’s a policy.
“No” Means “No” . . . 0
. . . or does it?
Most of the verbiage appears to be about persons who are unconscious or (intimidated into being) silent and on how much struggling is “struggling enough.’
Words fail me.