Culture Warriors category archive
The Establishmentarian 0
At the Des Moines Register, Rekha Basu decodes de code. A snippet (emphasis added):
The law allows people to cite their religious beliefs to discriminate against others, even in nonsecular, civil society.
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Republican Thought Police 0
David dissects the duplicity (warning: short commercial at the end).
It’s All about the Algorithm . . . 0
. . . and the Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal doesn’t like where the algorithm has been leading her lately.
“Tradwife” is a portmanteau of “traditional” and “wife.” Women who describe themselves as tradwives are, or aspire to be, wives, mothers and homemakers to the extreme. They do not work outside the home, although their stances on women who do vary – some maintain a “you do you” attitude of acceptance, and some think working women go against God’s plan. They generally make a big deal of submitting to their husband as the “head of the household” (and not just the tax thing).
Follow the link, where she explains why she finds this–er–disquieting.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The myth of the Lost Cause rides again!
In the world of the New Secesh, power is ignorance.
Aside:
Yeah, I know that history is not exactly repeating itself, but, to borrow a thought from Mark Twain, it sure as heck is echoing, and quite loudly at that.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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Elon Must styles himself as a “free speech absolutist” (unless, of course, someone tweets–or is it now Xcretes?–something with which he disagrees).
Au contraire, says the editorial staff of the Las Vegas Sun, which argues forcefully that Musk does not even understand what “freedom of speech” means.
Sleepy Don 0
As the saying goes, if you snooze, you lose.
An Alternate Reality 0
The Inky’s Will Bunch tells what it was like when he visited a Trump rally over the weekend. A snippet:
The Chaos Agent 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Bryan Greenspun argues forcefully that, thanks to Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, America’s new normal is chaos. Here’s part of what he says:
Every day of the four years produced one form of chaos or another as norms were upended, laws were ended and civility expunged from the daily discourse.
All that ended with the election of Joe Biden. Normalcy was certain to return and the bananas-like blip in the American psyche could subside. Or so we thought.
What the entire world didn’t count on was that Trump and his cult would not do the honorable thing and just go away.
He did the opposite.
Establishmentarians 0
Disestablishmentarian readers of The Denver Post weigh in on the threat posed by establitarianism.
(I have so wanted to use “disestablishmentarian” in a post.)
To Live in the Past 0
Thom looks back in time and finds context.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Now comes Charles Dew, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, documenting an echo.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Clarence Page decodes de code.
Republican Thought Police 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at a bill currently being deliberated (I use that term very loosely) by the Alabama legislature (another term I use very loosely) and wonders
Could a librarian be arrested for shelving the Bible where minors can find it?
Follow the link to see what led him to ask such a question.