When the need for external validation gets out of hand, one ends up with Pride Month – note how “gay” has been dropped. What does “Pride Month” even mean? Heteronormativity is a thing (it even spell-checks!). That dreadful Miller advertisement is proof enough. However, it should be a thing because hetero is normal. I’ve alwaysContinue reading “External Validation Gets Out-of-Hand”
Category Archives: Politics
The Narrative Be Framed
Good Country People, subtitled “America is far more complex than the hollow sentimentalism of its blind champions or the chaotic cynicism of its perpetual detractors”, is dreadful. It pretends to be an apologetic for conservatives, but it just reinforces the Leftist narratives that the Right are blind cheerleaders and America sucks. With friends like these…
Right-wing Extremist
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, as reported by NPR, as seen on Twitter (none of which are linked because they all need to die and sending ad-revenue generating eyeballs to them doesn’t help with the bankruptcy process), the Gadson flag is a symbol of right-wing extremism. Therefore: I can’t believe I found it.Continue reading “Right-wing Extremist”
Hyperlinks
An addition to the litany of ways our government is woefully behind the times… I’m looking into the record of my senators. Senator Thune’s website is quite helpful. What I discovered there is not. Here is some text from a linked bill (reformatted a bit, since PDF hates copy/paste): To modify conditions of funding forContinue reading “Hyperlinks”
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