Culture Warriors category archive
Manufactured Malice 0
David Roth is fed up with the mongers of the phony non-existent “War on Christmas.” Here’s a bit from his article at the Idaho State Journal:
The Phony “War on Christmas” 0
Michael in Norfolk looks behind the agitprop:
Aside:
As I journey about my neighborhood, it looks to me that, if there is a “war on Christmas,” Christmas is sure as heck winning.
Save Just What, Exactly? 0
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I have found that those who trumpet most loudly their own patriotism, those most likely to wrap their bodies in the stars and stripes (in violation of the Flag Code, by the way, but that is quite another issue) while waving the Stars and Bars–the flag of treason, for Pete’s sake–are also those most likely to reject the idea that “all men are created equal,” however imperfectly it might have been practiced at the time of the Founding.
Rather, they would will restore if they could can America’s original sin of chattel slavery.
I say this as one whose ancestors wore the grey.
I’m a Southern Boy who grew up under Jim Crow.
I know racism when I see it.
Grasping at a Broken Straw 0
The Las Vegas Sun editorial board if we can’t get rid of the guns, we have to get rid of the prejudice.
I reckon their hearts are in the right place.
And, in other news, pigs, wings.
“He’s Making a List . . . .” 0
These folks worship a God in their own craven image.
Taking Bread 0
Speaking of doing unto others . . . .
The Pyrite Rule 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, is somewhat taken aback that evangelical they-call-themselves-Christians seem to have rewritten the “Golden Rule” so that it reads simply, “Do unto others.”
Freedom of Screech 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Barbara S. Held argues that the proliferation of poisonous rhetoric is polluting our polity.
Methinks she has a point. You have only to pay attention.
A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
Her article is worth your while.
Republican Family Values 0
Values voters* keep phoning it in. And phoning it in.
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*So they themselves think.
Disfunctional Doppelgangers 0
In The Charlotte Observer, Paul Prather opines that persons who own ginormous pick-up trucks that they have no practical need for may not be sending the message that they think they are sending.
As someone who sees these things every day, I can attest that he is quite correct.
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