Culture Warriors category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Paul Krugman uses data and facts–remember data and facts?–to skewer the bigots’ arguments that immigrants take jobs away from American citizens. A snippet:
Follow the link for the data and facts.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I tried a couple of titles for this post, but I eventually realized that what we are seeing is the New Secesh still rising again, so I recycled a recurring title, because it reflects a recurring theme.
If you are brave enough look behind the rhetoric of Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, what you will see is racism, bigotry, and hate.
And hate sells, because hate allows persons to avoid responsibility, to avoid caring, to avoid thought.
The Privatization Scam 0
Eric Foster calls out the school voucher con for the underhanded fraud that it is: a violation of the public trust and of governments’ fiduciary duty to the citizenry. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
I comment his entire piece to your attention.
Establishmentarians 0
Chris Satullo challenges the establishmentarian impulse of the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Two tiny excerpts:
1) Your idea that the Bible lays out a comprehensive, clearcut judicial code or policy program for a 21st century civil government does not survive five minutes sitting with the book open on your lap and your mind switched on.
(snip)
2) One thing that is clear as day is that Jesus was suspicious (even contemptuous) of both the temporal and the institutional religious powers of his day, of Rome and the Pharisees.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Patriot Gamers 0
Methinks John MacDonald, in his letter to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, pretty much nails the nefariousness of the nattering nabobs of nastiness.
Establishmentarians 0
Thom wonders why so many they-call-themselves Christians seem to miss the point of what the Bible reports to be Jesus Christ’s own words.
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk is less than sanguine about the new Speaker of the House. A snippet:
The Spirit of the Secesh Haunts the House 0
Afterthought:
I do find it puzzling why so many they-call-themselves pundits want to hold Democrats to account for Republicans’ actions.
Could be that on some level they realize that Republicans are no account?
Tricky Treating, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Stephanie Hayes has some ideas as to what Halloween costumes will be acceptable to Floria Man’s Republican Thought Police.
The Coronation 0
Dick Polman is less that taken with the Republicans’ choice for Speaker of the House. Here’s a bit of what he has to say:
Follow the link to find out what he really thinks.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Aside:
You can listen to the threatening phone call for the Congressman’s wife.