The first time I saw Kayleigh McEnany on TV, she impressed me as a twit, and my opinion of her hasn’t changed much. She currently works as a Fox News propagandist, which is an appropriate placement for her. She doesn’t belong in respectable journalism. Even though I pronounce her name &#[...]
Posts Tagged ‘bigotry’
Why Florida’s attack on Disney is monstrous
Florida’s legislature, which is controlled by Republicans (specifics here), passed a bill requested by GOP Gov. DeSantis, which he signed, that repeals the special taxing district established in 1967 for Disney’s Florida theme parks (details here) to retaliate against Disney for criticiz[...]
April 4th, 2022 - 11:08 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
One man’s hate crime spree
A 28-year-old homeless man has been indicted in New York City for physically assaulting 7 Asian women in 3 hours. His M.O. was to approach the women from behind, strike them in the face with a closed fist or elbow, then flee the scene, according to police. He’s Steven Zajonc, and here’s [...]
March 24th, 2022 - 10:01 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Texas GOP expands its war against LGBQT kids
Texas AG Ken Paxton, a Republican homophobe, has ordered an Austin school district to stop observing Pride Week. Pride Week, he says, is “sex education” and therefore violates Texas law. That’s nonsense. It’s like saying observing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is “[...]
Hate behavior is soaring in schools
“Kids will be kids,’ they say; and it’s the job of parents and teachers to turn them into responsible adults. Babies aren’t born with social skills, and the process of acquiring social skills is called “socialization.” All children go through it. But America, on t[...]
December 1st, 2021 - 1:05 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
How to understand the new generation of GOP politicians
While the focus of this CNN article is on Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), it speaks in a general way about “how a whole generation of Trump acolytes view politics now,” and seeks to describe “a whole lot of [young] Republican politicians like Boebert in the pipeline” who are now [...]
No, Biden’s African travel ban isn’t hypocritical
America is polarized between left and right, with most of us in the middle. I’m convinced most Americans want intelligent discussion of public issues that affect us all. Truth, logic, and reason still matter. I criticize rightwingers on this blog, for good reason. They don’t want reasone[...]
Cable snaps on Rep. Boebert’s elevator joke
Crash! Boom! Thud! Rep. Lauren Boebert’s elevator joke (watch it below) fell down the shaft and landed with a sickening bang. The video leaked (helpful hint: they always do). Now, after getting caught, Boebert (R-CO) is scrambling to apologize to the Muslim congresswoman she insinuated is a te[...]
September 30th, 2021 - 1:53 pm § in Jews, Law and Courts
Threw his life away for what?
I don’t get it. It’s senseless. John T. Earnest, 22, described as “a former nursing student,” will spend his life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooting up a synagogue, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, September 30, 2021 (read story here). The stat[...]
Federal judge blocks new Arkansas anti-trans law
Earlier this month, the GOP-dominated Arkansas legislature overrode the GOP governor’s veto of a bill that bans gender-confirming medical treatments for trans youths. A federal judge blocked that law on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, pending an ACLU lawsuit to strike it down as a violation of those[...]