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August 19th, 2022 - 12:34 am § in Hypocrisy, Politics, Schools & Colleges

Kayleigh McEnany says something intelligent, but still has blind spots

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 &#[...]

June 23rd, 2022 - 2:07 pm § in Schools & Colleges

Kentucky’s “Teacher of the Year” driven out of teaching by bigots

“Kentucky’s 2022 teacher of the year, Willie Carver Jr., is leaving his K-12 post for a university job, citing anti-gay discrimination,” The Hill reported on Thursday, June 23, 2022 (read story here). He isn’t leaving Kentucky, not yet anyway, but after 17 years of teaching K-12 [...]

April 26th, 2022 - 10:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics

How to deal with a hater

First, if he’s breaking the law, call the cops. Then he should be prosecuted. That’s what befell the idiot in the photo at right, shown here in court with his attorney. His name is Alexander Jerich, and he defaced an LGBQT crosswalk in Delray Beach, Florida, by skidding his pickup truck [...]

April 22nd, 2022 - 6:11 pm § in Biden, Law and Courts, Politics

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 17th, 2022 - 4:07 pm § in America, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Racism

Request to GOP: Can we have some leaders?

Karl Marx famously said, “the masses are asses,” to justify what he called a “dictatorship of the proletariat” that turned out to be just another plain old dictatorship. The idea of representative democracy is to entrust ultimate authority for decision-making to the collectiv[...]

April 17th, 2022 - 2:27 am § in News Media, Politics

Jerk kicked off train for anti-gay rant

He just couldn’t mind his own business. A bigot on an Amtrak train decided to lecture the 6-year-old son of a gay couple. “Remember what I told you! Marriage is between a man and a woman. They stole you, and they’re pedophiles.” The couple notified Amtrak staff, and the train’s con[...]

April 13th, 2022 - 12:04 am § in Politics

Is transgender sports a real problem?

No. It’s empty GOP “culture wars” demagoguery. GOP legislatures are falling over themselves passing laws to ban transgender youth from girls’ sports. But in Indiana, where a GOP governor vetoed such legislation, “at no point in the past 10 years had a trans girl sought [...]

April 11th, 2022 - 11:00 pm § in Politics

Trans families flee Texas

Texas is run by hateful people, and isn’t merely inhospitable, but unsafe for LGBQT people. Republican state elected officials are creating what they call “a climate of terror.” Their vicious campaign against LGBQT people is leaving trans kids, their parents, and LGBTQ exhausted. N[...]

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 “[...]

February 23rd, 2022 - 2:13 pm § in Politics

Texas GOP governor orders kids to drop their drawers

“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) wants the government to investigate children’s genitals,” Huffington Post reported on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 (story here). He’s ordered the state child welfare agency to investigate sex change procedures on minors, just one day after Texas Attorn[...]