Category: Freedom
-
Seditious Conspiracy Cooties Are About To Infect The GOP
We all learned this important truth on the schoolyard. The last thing on earth anyone wants is cooties! Catching cooties is worse than just social death. It could spell long term doom. Even if you get a million miles away from a cootie, you can’t escape its stink. And nothing stinks worse than seditious conspiracy…
-
The Opposite Of “Woke” Is “Asleep”
It’s strange how certain words trigger the right wing mind. To be fair, certain words can trigger the left wing mind, too. Words that assault people and marginalize them. The word “woke” makes right wingers apoplectic. Somehow those four letters terrify the right wing mind like nothing else. Ironically, right wingers spend their days dreaming…
-
Only Little Boys And Republicans Think Freedom Is Actually “Free”
“Freedom” may be the most abused, lease understood word in the entire English language. People seeking it don’t abuse it (they can’t – they don’t have it!). Rather, it’s the people who already have it who regularly abuse it – using their freedom to deny other Americans the same freedom. Libertarians define freedom as “you’re…
-
Ooga-Booga v Knowledge: America’s Simple Choice
When U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Abilene, Texas took mifepristone off America’s pharmacy shelves, he perfectly encapsulated America’s abortion argument and our choices. On the one side sits knowledge, surrounded by receipts. On the other sits ooga-booga. Ooga-booga doesn’t have receipts. They don’t know even know what receipts are (or how to spell “receipts”).…
-
The GOP Didn’t Just Turn Fascist
The way our news media reports it, Trumpism took over the Republican Party quite suddenly – like a terrorist hijacking an airplane. Prior to that? The GOP was an honest actor, holding up its end of the greatest experiment ever in human self-government. Don’t blame the poor GOP for what Trump and Trumpism have done…
-
If Books Scare You, Actual Ideas Must Be Nightmares
Ever notice how it’s never progressives banning books? True fact: being progressive means book banning is anathema to you. Instead, progressives ban hate speech because hate speech undermines a diverse, democratic society. It is a literal assault upon others. Conservatives by contrast ban books because they hate what’s inside them – ideas and ways of…
-
Rugged Individualists Are An American Myth
We Americans love tall tales. In a sense, our whole country IS a tall tale. It’s a story about dreams coming true. One tall tale we tell ourselves is the story of the rugged individualist. You know him – he’s the white guy with a big idea. Give him ample freedom? He’ll deliver! Who will…