It’s watching C-SPAN that made me realize what a filthy racist I’ve become. Any time I see a white person with an [R] (or [R]-ish) chyron below the head, my first thought is “bottom-feeding, racist, corporate-tool wingtard.” Anytime I see someone with a [D] (or [D]-ish) chyron below his head, my first thought is “okay, probably sane.” Anytime I see congress in on C-SPAN, I see an assembly line output of the same haircut, suits and same child molesting bent. As soon as a white [R] politician with a southern drawl steps up to the microphone, I immediately think “klansman”. The more melanin I see the person has, the saner I think they probably are. When a black or brown talking head pops on the screen,  I immediately think “most likely a normal person”. Anytime I see a crowd of people at a rally for any [R], my first thought is “deluded, hateful, kidney-stones-for-brains, Fox News comatose racist, scooterpeople.”  When I look at any [R] politician, or candidate, I think “frothy hypocritical piece of over sized ego with with a penis the size of the world’s tallest leprechaun dickhead”. Whenever I see a white, [R], self-proclaimed religious type, I immediately  think, “self-loathing pole-smoking closet dweller with unspeakable psychosexual hangups”. Whenever I accidentally pass by Fox Noose with the channel changer, I think: “Fair and Balanced for Paranoid White Gunslinging Assholes”.

Thanks, guys. You have turned this once bleeding-hearted, Quaker-schooled, tolerant, erudite, broad-minded liberal into a racist asshole like yourselves.

This incident – a boy killed for the crime of possessing an innocuous object – in this case a bag of Skittles – and which I am observing from the very safe distance of both geography and white privilege – makes me want to stuff cotton in my ears. I am – dare I say – at a loss for words….I suppose it speaks to the very definition of incomprehensible oppression … I can’t make the words. How do people go on living under this kind of thing? My only defense is slogging through material facts.

Although the Florida cops are likely shitty, their hands are somewhat tied by a charming law that Florida adopted 7 years ago called “Stand Your Ground” – aka “Shoot First”. As stupid sounding as “The Castle Doctrine” or “MAKE MY DAY”, STAND YOUR GROUND (SYG) is worse, perhaps the worst law in the history of Florida – swampy home to some pretty terrible laws. SYG is a stupendous example of how a bad legislative solution in search of a nonexistent problem has created almost incomprehensible tragedy. How poorly written is this law? It could be: Trayvon with a bag of candy – in a black hand. Zimmerman with a gun. In that “battle,” candy always loses. Here is an example of how SYG works:  [click to continue…]

Listen up, Ladies, if you’re fed up with how the Democrats have been masterminding the nationwide GOP freakout about our lady-parts (equal parts Danielle Steele novels, fallopian tubes and chocolate), and shoving immigrant abuse victims and expanding protection to same-sex couples like corndogs down our throats.”Slate” deep thinker J. Bryan Lowder explains it all in a richly nuanced piece:  “Are Democrats in Danger of Looking Too Political on the Violence Against Women Act?” Short answer: “Yes”. I just read this – Happy Sunday Morning, y’all – and will parse it, word by word:  [click to continue…]