Culture Warriors category archive
All the History that Fits 0
A retired Auburn University history professor responds to Alabama’s effort to whitewash (you will pardon the expression) American history.
The Sublime vs. the Ridiculous 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells a tale of two convoys, one circumnavigating the Washington Beltway and one carry relief supplies from Berlin to Ukraine. An excerpt:
For those of us who do, Ukraine is a reminder that resisting tyranny is not a performance, not something you cosplay. That reminder is vital, given that American democracy is fast eroding – not because of medical mandates, mind, you, but because of attacks on the right to vote, protest and speak freely. Against that troubling confluence of threats, the truckers who descended on D.C. provide vivid illustration that even at this dangerous extremity, the American capacity for blithe idiocy remains intact.
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Mean for the Sake of Mean Dept.
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At SFGate, Drew Magary argues forcefully that certain states (Texas, Florida, etc.) are trying to secede without actually seceding. He suggests that, in the long run, it won’t go well for them, but, in the short run, we can expect much gratuitous suffering for those who don’t fit their image of “real Americans.” A nugget:
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
Bankrolling Bigotry 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell follows the money.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The edit:
Give me your tired, your poor,.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Meet one of the (many) editors.
“It’s Not Easy Being Green” 0
A little while ago, Tucker Carlson aired his sorrow that Mars has changed the look if the green M&M in its commercials to be “less sexy.”
A former green M&M (that is, a woman who performed as a green M&M in on-street ad campaigns) explains why she favors the change. A snippet:
It would not shock me if Carlson is out on 42nd Street right now pawing some former coworker of mine trying to get one last grope in before it’s too late.
All the History that Fits 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the South Jersey Times offers what I consider a reasonable explanation for Republican’s book-banning frenzy. Follow the link and see for yourself.
All the History that Fits 0
Leonard Hitchcock looks at the current attempts to shield students from facts because, to paraphrase the wannabe book banners, some books might hurt their children’s tender ‘ittle fee-fees.
He’s not buying that argument. Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added); follow the link for his reasoning.
Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
Laura Packard points out the Republicans have created their own little isolation chamber. An excerpt:
Follow the link for the rest.
All that Was Old Is New Again, Salem Redux 0
I think David misses the point. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
I disagree with David that the tax exemption of churches is the issue here. The issue is the simmering brew of manipulative, gullible, and stupid masquerading as faith, of self-styled shepherds whose only purpose is to sheer their flocks.
For a reasonably unbiased discussion of why churches are tax exempt in the U. S., see this article from the archives of the Los Angeles Times.