Notes from the Culture Wars:
• Kevin Thornton, or, queer alt country on being gay and forty in the twenty-first century. (HuffPo)
• Paige Lavender on Texas and the transgendered. (HuffPo)
• Tresa Baldas tries to explain the unfortunate intersection of compassion, hatred, and your doctor. (Detroit Free Press)
• Sam Levine, and this time it’s Kentucky and the transgendered. (HuffPo)
• Cavan Sieczkowski on Freud on homosexuality. (HuffPo)
• Two reports, from Tammy Mutasa and Casey Weldon on a die-in demonstration at Fountain Square, Cincinnati, calling attention to violence against transgendered. (WLWT, WCPO)
• Education? State? Justice? Jennifer Bendery reports that the transgendered also have the Department of Defense on their side. (HuffPo)
• At this point, Michael Tomasky’s piece tying social conservative politics to the precipitous decline spectacular crash of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential ambitions to … Jerry Falwell. (The Daily Beast)
Random Notes:
• Ezra Klein explaiuns the myth of the political moderate. (Vox)
• Robert Ariail reflects on Jeb Bush’s presidential ponderings. (RobertAriail.com)
• Jeremy Diamond brings us the stunning news that we already suspected, that officers in our armed forces lie. (CNN)
• Jennifer Rubin still thinks she’s useful, and Rick Perry still thinks he’s running for president. (WaPo)
• Jonathan Chait attempting to explain Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore is actually quite the entertaining, and enlightening, examination of the argument against Obamacare. (New York)
• Mike Wall took some time to explain why the phrase “pale blue dot” is so cool, and why you might have heard the phrase recently. (Space.com)
• Mike Nipper, on the other hand, took a moment to celebrate something having to do with the number one hundred thirty-seven. (Slog)
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