Culture Warriors category archive
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk is aghast at the mean for the sake of mean.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Zuckerborg is a soulless monster.
And, in further proof that “social” media isn’t, there’s Florida Woman.
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
Stephen discusses Governor DeSantis’s human trafficking of immigrants, plus a couple of other matters.
Republican Family Values 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Republican Family Values 0
When did causing suffering become a family value?
DQAnon 0
Well, I guess if you could think a pizza joint is some kind of sinister gathering place, you could think the same of a Dairy Queen.
But only if your thinker is misfiring.
We are a broken society.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet more hate-full twits.
“Social” media isn’t. Rather, it compounds the coarseness of dis coarse discourse.
Establishmentarians 0
Sam and his guest discuss the threat posed by Christian nationalist establishmentarianism.
Establishmentarians 0
At The Seattle Times, Heather L. Weaver and Daniel Mach parse the sophistry in the Supreme Court’s decision the case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the case about the preying praying football coach. A snippet:
Death Sentence 0
Aside:
Many years ago, a friend and co-worker of mine died of AIDS, back when it was still referred to by many as GRID (gay-related immune deficiency disease) and was therefore considered by far too many persons, somehow and sickeningly, to be no big deal.
At the time, he was still in Washington at Amtrak headquarters and I had been transferred to Philly, but, after his diagnosis was known to those that cared, I had the good fortune to run into him on the platform at Washington Union Station and we shared a farewell hug.
(I will add that his supervisor, one of the company’s vice presidents, treated him with kindness, consideration, and charity.)
He was a good man and a good friend.
These hate-full bigots who call themselves “Christian” worship no Jesus that I know.
Deja Vu All Over Again 0
As Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
School Daze 0
Above the Law’s Chris Williams surveys the havoc that Florida’s “Stop WOKE” act is working in Florida’s schools. A snippet:
The people who call anything they don’t like “woke”, “communist”, or “socialist” want you to stop calling them fascist because it’s divisive.
— Stefan ? (@stefanthinks) August 29, 2022
Am I missing something, or is it ridiculous to call out CRT for “Creating Racial Tension” on the one hand and self identify as a (white) Christian Nationalist prepared and happy to start crusading on the other?
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., explores the reasons underlying the failure of Jackson, Mississippi’s water system.
Afterthought:
No surprises here.
A Class Act 0
The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal thinks that the sentiment agains President Biden’s student loan forgiveness is rooted in concepts of social class, that those who are being helped are somehow the “undeserving poor.”
Methinks she is on to something. Follow the link for her reasoning.