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Help Me Out Here 0
I’m working on song to propose to North Carolina for a new state song. I’ve managed to come up with the first few lines, but now I’m stuck.
Golden showers fill my dreams.
I am preoccupied with streams.
Sleep, Pretty Baby, do not cry,
I will ensure that you stay dry.
I’m not really into golden showers, not being a North Carolina Republican, so assistance is appreciated.
More Tales of the Tarheel Potty Police 0
Elsewhere, Daniel Ruth marvels at the loo loonies.
Meanwhile, The Bob and Chez Show Blog offers a pictorial representation of North Carolina’s golden showers fetish:
Anointed with (Snake) Oil 0
I never trust persons who say that God is on their side.
I sometimes will trust persons who say that they are trying to be on God’s side.
The Scalias of Justice 0
At Above the Law, Elie Mystal predicts that many Republicans will hold their noses and support Donald Trump because of existing and potential Supreme Court vacancies. Here’s one of the more low-key bits:
Guns, abortions, and gays. “GAG” orders. That’s what the conservatives want the Court for. They are willing to put a xenophobic, snake oil salesman in the Oval Office so long as NOBODY has to bake a cake for a gay person.
Do read the rest.
P. M. 0
Ed, at Gin and Tacos, reflects on the Republican Trumpocalyse. It’s a biting summary.
Here’s how he concludes it; follow the link to see why:
He’s quite correct, you know.
The Purpose of the Potty Police 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., in considering the nuances of privacy in locker rooms and other facilities, gets to the point (emphasis added):
That’s because protecting children is not the point. The exploitation and manipulation of fear is.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Charlotte Observer’s Taylor Batten looks at a champion of North Carolina’s “It’s Okay To Hate the Gay” law and realizes he’s seen it all before. A nugget:
Now (state senator Buck–ed.) Newton, who is running to be North Carolina’s attorney general, bellows about “how hard we must fight to keep our state straight.” He invokes the threat that those who oppose state-sanctioned discrimination against gays will “expose our wives and our sisters and our children to the sexual predators in the bathrooms.” He says that “the folks that wave the rainbow flags” need to get used to “the way things have always been in this state.” Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
Read the rest.
The Pervy Party’s Preposterous Preoccupation with Potties 0
The Charlotte Observer talks to a transgender man about life under the reign of the Tarheel Potty Patrol.