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It’s the priorities, stupid. It’s all well and good to poke fun at Republicans for being prudes and Democrats for being licentious. But the disconnect present in the ruling Right??s (and it seems, American culture’s) fixation on sex as a horrid scourge, while less attention is paid to more important matters, is deadly serious when people start getting killed over this stuff...
Speaking of boobs, remember those Republican House impeachment managers, who feigned outrage at Bill Clinton’s escapades, yet were on the record defending Oliver North’s lies to Congress in the Iran-Contra affair? Indeed, the asymmetry between the Right??s panicked attitude about sex and its causal stance on violence is reflected in the basic partisan dichotomy of scandal in this country: in our lifetimes, Democratic scandals tend to be sexual, while Republican ones are often violent. It was in 1984, the year most college sophomores were born, that Gary Hart?...
...bill to close the loophole that lets companies avoid billions in taxes by putting a home office in Bermuda, but this in itself is not sufficient. The real challenge for the Democratic Party, and its presidential candidates in particular, is to figure out how to reverse the Right??s stranglehold on our political vocabulary, without adopting the kind of lock-step dogmatic monolithism that empowered the likes of Gingrich. I don’t have a quick solution handy, but I’m pretty sure that if the Dems don’t act fast to reclaim...
...accused “the hard-hard right?? of trying to use the “unelected branch”—the judiciary—to enact its agenda, having failed to do so through Congress and the Presidency...
...reminds me of a poster for some play I saw recently in a Science Center bathroom stall: “Bathrooms are places where women become themselves,” is what I remember of the quote. Drag Night furthers the idea that there is this “right?? kind of femininity (I always wondered where I got my body—now I know it’s from the bathroom!). Unfortunately, my bathroom-prepared-woman drag is successful. When I put on my boots, I get lots of compliments. If my trans friend wears...