The Wrongologist

Friday, where America aims for the basement, and winds up in the 3rd sub-basement. You’ve heard about the dude in North Carolina who killed 3 Muslim students over a parking space? Oh, and he had posted anti-religious messages on Facebook. Well, God weighed in:

America: where minorities, for good reason, fear their kids getting shot, and white people, for no reason, fear their kids getting shots.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 12, 2015

And here are two stories by/about our Republican “friends”: First, from Montana, where a state Rep is trying to “enhance” the state’s indecent exposure law by outlawing yoga pants.

Rep. David Moore (R-Missoula) introduced a bill that makes any nipple exposure, (including men’s), and any garment that “gives the appearance or simulates” a person’s buttocks, genitals, pelvic area or female nipple, indecent exposure. The Republican said:

Yoga pants should be illegal in public anyway.

If the biggest problem Rep. Moore has to worry about involves nipples or clothing that “give the appearance or simulates” one’s “buttocks, genitals, pelvic area or female nipple,” he really needs to find a less perv-like job. As a member in good standing of the Republican Party, (the folks who demand smaller, less intrusive government), how would he go about enforcing his new law?

• How do you punish a man for not wearing a shirt during the summer?
• Who gets the government job that requires them to stare at breasts and genital areas all day? Does he outsource it to the TSA?

Is this just another example of Republican “small government?” It’s another indicator that the GOP doesn’t care about small government, unless you’re talking about a government that will enforce an intrusive, narrow-minded, repressed, authoritarian agenda. Good job, Montana.

Second, apparently Kayla Mueller is the wrong kind of dead hostage. The world knows that ISIS announced that hostage Kayla Mueller was dead. Although most of us sympathized with her family, some conservatives did not, calling Ms. Mueller a terrorist sympathizer and “anti-Israel bitch” because she had worked on behalf of people in occupied Palestine. Conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel wrote:

Mueller was a Jew-hating, anti-Israel piece of crap who worked with HAMAS and helped Palestinians harass Israeli soldiers and block them from doing their job of keeping Islamic terrorists out of Israel.

America’s right-wing must re-civilize itself. The way back is through reason and rationality, where facts are tied to reality, not to figments of a fevered imagination, or to utopian beliefs that, in the end, will never take our Nation where it needs to go. The conservative warmongers were really disappointed to learn of Mueller’s politics. No doubt, they had been salivating when they learned a pretty white girl had been killed by ISIS.

Time for music. Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and here are the Foo Fighters doing “Everlong”. This was recorded live at Wembley Stadium in London, England, in June 2008. OK, it’s not your traditional soupy love song for a manufactured holiday, but it’s poignant, true and loving. The video is divided into an acoustic version of the song, and an up-tempo, typical Foo treatment. Watch the acoustic version which ends at 4:50:

Sample Lyric:
And I wonder
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I’ll ever ask of you
You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when

See you Sunday.