Culture Warriors category archive
Good Sports 0
One seems to be seeing more and more reports like this one.
Dozens of Catholic Memorial students attending Friday’s game against Newton North High School were overheard yelling, ‘‘You killed Jesus’’ to Newton North fans.
“Measure for Measure” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Eric Neuman tries to analyze the recent outbreak of SORPE (Sudden-Onset Republican Penis Envy). It defies excerpt; follow the link to read it.
In related news, Glenn Geher explores the “ewwww” factor.
Afterthought:
I reckon we now know for certain what the Republican family values.
The Cost of Cowboy Cosplay 0
Balloon Juice has a pretty good rundown on the Bundy Bund’s burden on the treasury.
The costs of the upcoming judicial proceedings is not addressed.
American Taliban: Jingo Unchained 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear thinks that the punditocracy is overlooking the central appeal of Donald Trump, even as they clutch their pearls and fall on their fainting couches, in the grip of the vapors at his ungentlemanly behavior.
Mr. Bear believes that uniting Trump’s appeals to bigotry, racism, and xenophobia is an overweening theme of aggressive nationalism*. I urge you to read his full piece; here’s a bit:
About the same time that Mr. Bear was forming his post, Giles Fraser of The Guardian offered his theory as to how Americans who loudly and vociferously proclaim their fealty to Jesus Christ can espouse policies that directly counter his words as reported in the four Gospels:
In short, he suggests that American fundamentalists evangelicals whatever they call themselves today you know who I mean have replaced the Prince of Peace with a God of War–that they have built their own Golden Christ, wrapped in an American flag, carrying an M16, and piloting a Predator drone.
Frankly, I think that both writers are onto something. In particular, it is much easier for persons to change their god than it is for them to change themselves. Christianists (or, as Michael in Norfolk calls them, “Christofascists”) have taken that step.
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*Left implicit is the “white’ in nationalism.
“Watch Out. It’s an Emoji and It’s about To Go Off!” 0
I’ve wondered before, just how stupid do you have to be to qualify to be a school administrator.
Facebook Frolics 0
A Parisian protests the petty puritanism of prissy poseurs. A precis:
The ruling by the Paris appeal court could set a legal precedent in the country, where Facebook has more than 30 million regular users.
A court will now be entitled to hear the case of the 57-year-old Parisian teacher and art lover whose Facebook account was suspended five years ago without notice. It was closed on the day he posted a photo of Gustave Courbet’s 1866 painting The Origin of the World, . . . .
There’s the “Golden Mean,” . . . 0
. . . then there’s the Republican mean.
Race to the Super Bowl 0
I gather that some old white men are clutching their pearls while having the vapors over the Super Bowl half-time show, sort of like the lady in the Masterpiece Mystery theme.
They should grow up already.
(Video below the fold in case it autoplays.)
Forget the Race; Look at the Racers 0
Chauncey Devega argues that far too much attention is paid to the differences amongst the Republican candidates for the presidential nomination. He find their similarities to be much more important–and troubling. Here’s a bit from his typically long and tightly-reasoned post:
1. That the United States should bomb and kill many thousands of innocent people in the Middle East and elsewhere in order to supposedly stop the spread of ISIS and other terrorist organizations.
2. Torturing suspected terrorists—even though such acts are both immoral and ineffective in retrieving actionable intelligence information—is acceptable.
3. “God’s law” should supersede the United States Constitution.
4. They are anti-science and do not believe that global warming is a real, scientifically proven, empirical fact.
(Follow the link for the rest of the list)
The contemporary Republican Party is a radical political organization that has betrayed the core tenet of “conservatism,” what is a belief in stability in the face of radical change. To that end, movement conservatism seeks to undo the consensus politics of the World War II and post-World War II era because it views the great successes of the New Deal, the Great Society and the civil rights movement(s) as a threat to the excesses of unrestrained capitalism and white male power.
Potty Mouths 0
One more time, persons who complain loudly about “political correctness” demand license to be offensive without penalty.