Questions
Who wrote "Racist Fish" (in English) on Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue? Could it be that everybody on earth, including Hans Christian Andersen, is six degrees of separation from slavery or some other crime? Could it be a reference to Flemming Rose and his newspaper's cartoons of Muhammad, which for a time drew a target on everything remotely Danish? Or has some smartass decided to comment on political correctness gone bonkers? We'll probably never know. The Mermaid has been vandalized and repaired so many times, it's probably not a priority for the Danish police.
Why does the Washington football team need to "review" its racist name? People have called for change for years. Fedex and Nike are threatening to withdraw sponsorship, which answers that question but opens another: Why didn't they threaten before? Watching Dan Snyder climb down will not be enough; he should take a knee before the opening game, when "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" is played. You know, just before the Twitter explosion.
What does Chuck Labella know about Trump and what is the RNC paying him to sit on it? We probably won't find out until after November. You know (tedious history stuff coming up, feel free to skip) it's exactly a century since they had a candidate this, let's say, libidinously compromised. Before email, Warren G. Harding wrote snail-mail letters to a number of women and the party had to spend loads of money buying them up and otherwise arranging for silence. (One of Warren's paramours was sent on a world cruise with her husband.) In the end they got Harding elected, but the party was so deep in debt that national chairman Will Hays -- the future movie censor -- had to go with hat in hand to a lot of rich men, who were happy to help. The quid pro quo -- it's their favorite Latin phrase -- was leases on the strategic oil reserves in the west, Teapot Dome being the most famous. From Horny Harding to Dirty Don -- family values, huh?
Does Roger "The Kingmaker" Stone really think he can get Tucker Carlson elected president? But what about Donnie Junior? And Tom Cotton? And that cute Marco Rubio? And the 600,000 gen-u-wine registered Republicans who are at the very least Q-curious? That party is already buggier than the Teabigots and the Free Dumb Caucus combined. Go for it, Tucky. What have you got to lose? You've already lost most of your advertisers.
It looks like Trump is hoping fireworks at Mount Rushmore will make people forget his complicity in Putin's bounty on coalition troops in Afghanistan. This being the state that thinks Kristi "No Social Distancing" Noem is a competent governor, some of them have forgotten already. Only the Sioux are angry, but who cares about them? That is a rhetorical question.
So is this: How far do we have to go? Facebook post from Gail Welch, election commissioner, Jones County, Mississippi: "I'm concerned about voter registration in Mississippi. The blacks are having lots events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved, too." I checked and it's not 1964. Nor is it 1864, when Newt Knight tried to return Jones County to the United States. Maybe by 2064 they'll get this shit sorted out.
Let freedom ring?
Why does the Washington football team need to "review" its racist name? People have called for change for years. Fedex and Nike are threatening to withdraw sponsorship, which answers that question but opens another: Why didn't they threaten before? Watching Dan Snyder climb down will not be enough; he should take a knee before the opening game, when "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" is played. You know, just before the Twitter explosion.
What does Chuck Labella know about Trump and what is the RNC paying him to sit on it? We probably won't find out until after November. You know (tedious history stuff coming up, feel free to skip) it's exactly a century since they had a candidate this, let's say, libidinously compromised. Before email, Warren G. Harding wrote snail-mail letters to a number of women and the party had to spend loads of money buying them up and otherwise arranging for silence. (One of Warren's paramours was sent on a world cruise with her husband.) In the end they got Harding elected, but the party was so deep in debt that national chairman Will Hays -- the future movie censor -- had to go with hat in hand to a lot of rich men, who were happy to help. The quid pro quo -- it's their favorite Latin phrase -- was leases on the strategic oil reserves in the west, Teapot Dome being the most famous. From Horny Harding to Dirty Don -- family values, huh?
Does Roger "The Kingmaker" Stone really think he can get Tucker Carlson elected president? But what about Donnie Junior? And Tom Cotton? And that cute Marco Rubio? And the 600,000 gen-u-wine registered Republicans who are at the very least Q-curious? That party is already buggier than the Teabigots and the Free Dumb Caucus combined. Go for it, Tucky. What have you got to lose? You've already lost most of your advertisers.
It looks like Trump is hoping fireworks at Mount Rushmore will make people forget his complicity in Putin's bounty on coalition troops in Afghanistan. This being the state that thinks Kristi "No Social Distancing" Noem is a competent governor, some of them have forgotten already. Only the Sioux are angry, but who cares about them? That is a rhetorical question.
So is this: How far do we have to go? Facebook post from Gail Welch, election commissioner, Jones County, Mississippi: "I'm concerned about voter registration in Mississippi. The blacks are having lots events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved, too." I checked and it's not 1964. Nor is it 1864, when Newt Knight tried to return Jones County to the United States. Maybe by 2064 they'll get this shit sorted out.
Let freedom ring?
posted by Buttermilk Sky at 2:49 PM
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Yes Ma'am, all of the above
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