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culture war

A collection of 26 posts

Religion

Theocracy on the March

If you can't get the public to join your religion, let the state take your religion to children.

MAGA

Cuba Libre!

I'm in favor of the drink, not the invasion.

Trump

Physician, Investigate Thyself

What about those paper ballots with bamboo in them, eh?

Election

They Make LBJ Look Like Goldwater

Democrats are feeling their oats. And they'll be forced to eat them.

culture war

Texas Rewrites, Well, Everything

Can't afford a religious private school? Texas can help.

Trump

President Narcissus

It's now officially silly. And destructive.

Republican Party

It's Juneteenth! Let's Blame Someone!

I mean, come on. We have to have someone to hate.

Trump

Are You Ready to Rumble?

"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"

Trump

Burn Down the Mission

The Trump administration has set aside $1.776 billion in taxpayer money to compensate people convicted of attacking the US Capitol. He pardoned over 1,500 of them, wiped out $1.3 billion in court-ordered restitution they owed their victims, and then built them a tip jar with your money.

Trump

Whistling Past the Coal Mine

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

national politics

"S-s-h-h, This is Just Between Us, OK?"

Is no one risk averse anymore?

Trump

Our Lady of Eternal Rationalizations

It all seems so obvious, except it apparently isn't.

Trump

Mean Girls 3

Seriously, people. How stupid does it have to get?

Trump

When Science and Civility Are Gone

If it's the Kennedy Memorial Center, don't you have to be dead to put your name on it?

Trump

Another Week in Paradise

Even inter-cranial parasites have only so much tolerance.

Trump

"What is Truth?"

When "alternative facts" become gospel.

Trump

The World Turned Upside Down

OK gang, here's where we are in a nutshell. (Spoiler alert: "King George is dead! Long Live King Trump?")

Trump

Let Loose the Frogs of War

With apologies to Shakespeare.

Health Care

The Way We Were

For the first half of the 20th century, summers were not carefree for children or adults. Swimming pools were often shuttered, playgrounds empty and quiet, and parental dread informed every decision about their children’s activities. The polio virus invisibly stalked the world...

Trump

Onward Into the Past

They're taking us backward. How far can they go?

Trump

Big Bird Flips the Bird

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in WWII, he responded, “Then what would we be fighting for?” **

Trump

The Texas Template

MAGA Texas politicians have taken the infamous Parr political family’s petri dish out of the historical closet and studied it for tips on how to destroy democracy for fun and profit, and Trump is learning from their research.

Trump

No Ordinary Time

With apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Trump

Jeffrey, Who?

Oh, for when life was simpler and we argued over Obama's birth certificate.

Culture

Grannie Dannie Needs a Gummie, Bezos Bought a Bride

The same old story: Married nerd father meets married Fox TV anchor mom. Married nerd almost loses married TV anchor, but whips out a pic of his... balance sheet. Nerd and TV anchor hook up and tangle like a couple of meth infused weasels.