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Two things to begin this December month - a poem by Laura Hershey as a reminder to us all to be proud of ourselves and practice our proud by doing the things that we are proud of and a poem by James Wheldon Johnson about a lonely deity who wanted a universe to keep him company.
When dealing with those with censorious intent, especially in your schools, realize you may have to fight a mob instead of an individual, as the forces for removal are becoming more and more organized to achieve their ends.
Or, you may find that a rare collection of books about a particualr subject may be sold off as repayment of a loan, unless the government steps in to take control of the rest of the collection they do not already own.
Or perhaps that your governmental officials, and many of the comment mob that replies, believe that your library has been superceded by some other service, or is doomed to obscurity and oblivion, and so should have its funding cut away.
Finally, 1 December is World AIDS Day, because HIV is still out there and killing people. Thankfully, it's no longer referred to as Gay-Related Immune Disorder. Unfortuantely, it still carries a stigma of "immoral behavior" that prevents the full weight of our resources from being brought to bear on finding cures and vaccinations for it, liek we have for so many ofther viral infections.
And while we're on the issue of removing stimgatization, spare a thought to bringing polyamory into the mainstream without stigmatization, please. Because, truthfully, while we shake our heads at our ancestors' stupidity, we're repeating it in another capacity.
Out in the world today, Gabon evicts white people from the country for their racism. Yar, go them. Does that mean that any mental damage left over from colonialism has been properly erased, too?
Lest you think the new 2014 date for withdrawal from Afghanistan is a deadline, be assured, the Concept War will continue for however long it has to to ensure that Oceania remains at war with Eastasia.
Wikileaks is the target of a concerted effort to ensure their information is not distrubted widely, with the founder sought after for charges in Sweden unrelated to the latest leak, and Amazon.com kicking his site off their servers when governmental agents came inquiring about why they had the content on their machines. This is the beginning of the storm, of course, as other publications call for him to be arrested and possibly put to death, along with any of his sources, for their role in leaking the diplomatic cables, to act as a "deterrent" against later leaks and to properly instill fear in whistleblowers so they decide not to make public what they know, allowing dark deeds to be done in secret. The leak also makes for convenient accusations that your rival paper is Biased and inconsistent in application of their stated standards, and even better that old stuff gets dredged up to be thrown at them for it.
Of course, when those secret cables release information that helps to make the preferred case of an opinion writer, say, that Iran is alone in the region and everyone hates them, or how Armenia sold Iran weapons that would be used against United States troops in Iraq, then the calls aren't so forceful to be killing or maiming. Sometimes. Other times, even if it is making the point, ("Look how weak and stupid the Obama administration is on national security"), Wikileaks can be denigrated as a terroist and national security threat, even as the information they provide is being used to help advance pet political causes. It's a complicated world the opinion columns live in over this.
For something refreshing on the whole matter, Mr. Greenwald goes to the heart of things - the National Security State that calls for Assange and his leakers to be killed, along with their complicit media outlets, are hypocrites, if not agents of evil, and are trying to protect a mindset that says nonsecret things should be secret. They didn't say a whole lot of anything about what the Iraq leaks confirmed, and the Afghanistan leaks confirmed, even though the allegations and crimes and confirmed counts of dead people that should come from something like that are far, far worse than some of what has been released in this latest cable set and the threats that some of those things might cause deaths later on somewhere. Why are they now suddenly all up in arms about what's going on? Perhaps because the other leaks had some sort of "plausible deniability", despite all the evidence to corroborate them, and these ones, coming straight from the horses' mouths, cannot be denied, no matter how hard they want to wiggle and get out of them.
Domestically, Mr. Taibbi, perhaps one of the few investigative journalists around, points out the the judges of the rocket docket aren't even doing basic checks to ensure the cases coming before them are actually valid and not fraudulent. While part of it is that homeowners have to make their own defense, according to Mr. Taibbi, part of it is also because We, the People, are being conditioned to think that normal people facing The Law are always trying to hide something, and the idea that the Big Corproations might be engaged in widespread fraud hasn't sunk in yet. So they need more Leverage, less Judge Judy. Additionally, though, when the homeowner actually contests, the judges need to rule against them and close the case, rather than letting them regroup, find better forgeries, and go at it again, like Mr. Taibbi's last piece indicated was standard practice.
In politics, Death Panels. In Arizona. Just as the Palins and others said they would be, brought about by a Republican governor who yanks life away from patients in order to save a little bit of money, telling them they have to come up with the full cost of their transplant if they wish to continue living. And for what probably are fairly miniscule savings compared to the whole budget.
The phrase bipartisanship is once again resurrected from its grave to shamble about and cry for brains for a bit while the opposition party allows the party in power to surrender whatever concessions they were willing to give without securing anything in return. They party in power could stick to their guns and surprise us all, but the account here is likely what's going to happen, with the telegraphed weakness turning into giving things up completely and calling it a compormise.
Although, speaking of bipartisanship, as it turns out, from another Wikileaks cable, bipartisanship happened in a hurry when it come to making sure that the previous administration got no investigations about their torture. Priorites, priorities.
Defense Secretary Gates hinted that if the legislature passed a repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell laws, they could set the timeline for implemetnation and make it smooth. If they didn't, they were leaving it up to the mercy of the court system to impose the changes in an immediate manner.
The Century of the Fruitbat lands in Illinois for a stay, as all-but-marriage civil unions pass the state legislature. The governor says he'll sign it into law.
Despite the prevailing narrative, a survey conducted of NPR's flagship programs found that conservative guests outnumbered liberal guests by almost two to one. I kind of like the suggestion that the lack of screaming talking heads makes people think NPR is liberal, but that's visceral and had no actual proof. Perhaps NPR is the latest ACORN, smeared for something that is demonstrably untrue, with the perception persisting even after the untrue-ness was demonstrated.
In the sciences and technologies, research conducted on the strain of yersina pestis that brought about the Black Death indicates that its origin is in China.
Opening opinions, we have Mr. Carroll claiming victory on politics regarding the President's proposal to freeze civilian government salaries, while urging the machine to keep the pressure on until he gives them what they all really want. He also mentions that such a proposal isn't likely to work, and it's really just a COLA freeze, not a real freeze. What they really need, he says, is to have their pay comparable to that of the private sector, raises and bonuses for "performance" be the only way to get any extra money, and to have the retirement age raised. Total savings? $47 billion USD. In a $1,400 billion USD defecit, that's less than chump change. Plus, it has the added benefit of making sure the best and brightest continue going to the private sector instead of into government service where they will be needed. (I suspect that's the point - starve the government of good people so that it can be properly corrupted to your own ends and sold off to the private sector for them to profit.) A similar tactic to taxes is taken by The WSJ complaining that Congress's inaction on the Bush tax cuts means that the Democrats and the President should be blamed for nto giving the Republicans everything they wanted. At least they were honest about the duplicitous definition of "Small businesses", the people the Republicans say are going to be hit hardest by the increases - it's a business that employs less than 500 people. Not how much it makes in business income, but how many employees it has. I don't know many actually-small businesses get close to a $250,000 USD income for their year, but i do know there are a lot of very rich companies that employ less than 500 people and can more than afford to pay some real taxes, not that they actually will. Besides, anyone who wants to claim a debt problem will be solved by removing revenues, and doing so without actually proposing spending cuts of a similar amount, is unserious about the debt problem and should be mocked mercilessly until they come to the table with a real proposal. Mr. Boskin at least acknowledges that spending has to come down as he advocates for cutting taxes further than they are right now, believing such tax cuts will result in a stronger economy and more government revenues.
The Slacktivist notes how easily people can be convinced to do and vote for things not in their best interests, because they resent that other people do not suffer as they do. This is different than buying into the slick package that says "We're going to help you" despite having no credibility behind that based on their actual actions, no, this is the attitude that claims government workers deserve a pay cut because the private sector's greed-filled CEOs are cutting the wages of their workers. The kind that says government workers should lose their jobs because greed-filled CEOs are cutting their out workers so they can line their own pockets. The kind that says "If I Can't Have It, Neither Should You". It's resentemnt, and resentment often brings out the old lines of division, the ones that we're supposed to have been over, like race, or sexual orientation, or class. Those People are getting something They Don't Deserve, Because They're Black, or Gay, or Poor, while I'm struggling to make my own ends meet. That's the vitality of the "SOCALISM BAD!" argument, and the dark spectre of the Tea Party's aims, cloaked in the rhetoric of "small government".
On the other side of the fear and terror tw-prong attack, Mr. Schneier says the Washington Monument should be closed and stay closed until the people and their government have overcome their fear (and the malicious tendency to use it to restrict liberties) of terrorists and terrorism, to be re-opened when the American people can take an attack in stride, mourn the dead, and work harder, and praise the system when it works, instead of claiming how much it almost didn't and how weak the opposition is on security because it almost didn't work. When the American people can show the same kind of resolve the UK did during the Blitz, which will forever be far worse than any terror attack can muster, then maybe we can re-open the monument. Sounds about right, to me.
Mr. Carrol continues to harp against the new START treaty, claiming that it weakens the United States and limits our ability to destroy the world multiple times over unacceptably. He can wrangle on parts involving inspection and verification, sure, but being opposed to reducing the number of devices that can anhiliate us all easily, because it might mean someone else gets more of them than someone else, seems counterproductive to me.
Mr. Arnold expreses the prevailing conservative opinion regarding EU nations and necessary bailouts, an opinion that is quite opposite what was expressed about the United States bank bailouts. When it's Over There, Too Big to Fail should actually fail and austerity should be put in place. When it was over here, however, I recall that most conservative voices said "Too Big To Fail must be propped up, or calamity will happen! Damn the austerity, bail out the bankers!" So, is this another case of I Got Mine, Frak You?
Clearing out of opinions, we have candidates, once again, for the Worst People in the World. The bronze effort to Mr. Walter Williams, reacting to the proposed regulation of toys and unhealthy foods by laying the blame of obesity squarely at the feet of parents and claiming that one the Happy Meal ban is in place, the zealots will engage in a creeping campaign to regulate people's eating, like their tobacco use has been regulated and then dispersed. The strident defense of "parents have a right to feed their kids whaatever they want" is acceptable, but it's incomplete. It doesn't address the advertising blitzes designed to get kids to demand what's not healthy for them. It doesn't address the way we do food subsidization so that the unhealthy options are the cheapest ones, and thus the likely affordable ones for most families in or around poverty. It doesn't address the time issue for eating healthy versus the convenience of the drive-through. The regulations are trying to help parents by removing one of those issues. It's not even the most important one, but it would help, certainly.
The silver option is a dogged determination by Mr. Sowell to insist that reducing tax rates raises revenues for the government, using the long-term picture as his argument. Thing is, the extension of tax cuts would not be further tax cuts, just leaving the rates the way they are. And with the rates the way they are, what so we have of the ten years of those rates? Corporate profits going up, but not plowing them back into hiring and expanding the business, instead, people are being sacrificed to get more profit into the hands of the very richest. While I'm sure that letting tax rates rise on the rich will lead to an increased use of loopholes, exemptions, and other tricks to ensure that the rich continue to pay very little, there's always the chance that they'll grow a conscience, realize that they can't continue to pillage if there's nothing there to loot and actually pay up and hire people. Pipe dream, I know.
Tonight's outstanding entry in the category of Worst Person in the World, however, goes to thoroughly disgraced propagandist L. Brent Bozell III goes off on how transgender people should not ever be accepted in athletics as their chosen gender, ever, because it's inherently unfair to have the born-male playing in female sports, and every woman thinks it's totally gross to have a thingy showering with them, even if the pronoun and identity are female. Despite the target of his rage being about a biologically-female transgender that will continue playing for the women's basketball team, undergoing no hormone or gender-reassignment surgeries while he continues playing athletics, just with gender-appropriate pronouns now in place, and a golfer who would like to join the LPGA tour and be credited as having the longest drive as a female, for which Bozell describes her masculine build and says she has an unfair advantage. Bozell accuses transgender persons of committing "war on reality" and that non-dscrimination clauses on gender identity are helping that war. What he fails to make clear, however, is where the actual harm for all his histrionics is. There's no sudden advantage gained by asking people to refer to you as your correct gender. In the basketball player's case, since he's not getting any hormone therapeis or anything else, he has no additional competitive advantage, certainly. And as for the golfer, does he really think that a suitably strong woman with good form can't drive a golf ball 250+ yards? He's selling women short on that. Bozell is a transphobe who can't be arsed to deliver actual harms to his rant, expecting you to take his argument on face that things aren't fair and forget, say, Billie Jean King. Thoroughly discredited propagandist L. Brent Bozell III, transphobe, and Worst Person In The World.
Last out, a letter to a Senator from Illinois advising him to grow a beard to help him with a Presidential election campaign, and the response sent, a study indicating how to be a proper kiss-ass, and a matter of perspective - what life is like when the roads in San Francisco are flat.
When dealing with those with censorious intent, especially in your schools, realize you may have to fight a mob instead of an individual, as the forces for removal are becoming more and more organized to achieve their ends.
Or, you may find that a rare collection of books about a particualr subject may be sold off as repayment of a loan, unless the government steps in to take control of the rest of the collection they do not already own.
Or perhaps that your governmental officials, and many of the comment mob that replies, believe that your library has been superceded by some other service, or is doomed to obscurity and oblivion, and so should have its funding cut away.
Finally, 1 December is World AIDS Day, because HIV is still out there and killing people. Thankfully, it's no longer referred to as Gay-Related Immune Disorder. Unfortuantely, it still carries a stigma of "immoral behavior" that prevents the full weight of our resources from being brought to bear on finding cures and vaccinations for it, liek we have for so many ofther viral infections.
And while we're on the issue of removing stimgatization, spare a thought to bringing polyamory into the mainstream without stigmatization, please. Because, truthfully, while we shake our heads at our ancestors' stupidity, we're repeating it in another capacity.
Out in the world today, Gabon evicts white people from the country for their racism. Yar, go them. Does that mean that any mental damage left over from colonialism has been properly erased, too?
Lest you think the new 2014 date for withdrawal from Afghanistan is a deadline, be assured, the Concept War will continue for however long it has to to ensure that Oceania remains at war with Eastasia.
Wikileaks is the target of a concerted effort to ensure their information is not distrubted widely, with the founder sought after for charges in Sweden unrelated to the latest leak, and Amazon.com kicking his site off their servers when governmental agents came inquiring about why they had the content on their machines. This is the beginning of the storm, of course, as other publications call for him to be arrested and possibly put to death, along with any of his sources, for their role in leaking the diplomatic cables, to act as a "deterrent" against later leaks and to properly instill fear in whistleblowers so they decide not to make public what they know, allowing dark deeds to be done in secret. The leak also makes for convenient accusations that your rival paper is Biased and inconsistent in application of their stated standards, and even better that old stuff gets dredged up to be thrown at them for it.
Of course, when those secret cables release information that helps to make the preferred case of an opinion writer, say, that Iran is alone in the region and everyone hates them, or how Armenia sold Iran weapons that would be used against United States troops in Iraq, then the calls aren't so forceful to be killing or maiming. Sometimes. Other times, even if it is making the point, ("Look how weak and stupid the Obama administration is on national security"), Wikileaks can be denigrated as a terroist and national security threat, even as the information they provide is being used to help advance pet political causes. It's a complicated world the opinion columns live in over this.
For something refreshing on the whole matter, Mr. Greenwald goes to the heart of things - the National Security State that calls for Assange and his leakers to be killed, along with their complicit media outlets, are hypocrites, if not agents of evil, and are trying to protect a mindset that says nonsecret things should be secret. They didn't say a whole lot of anything about what the Iraq leaks confirmed, and the Afghanistan leaks confirmed, even though the allegations and crimes and confirmed counts of dead people that should come from something like that are far, far worse than some of what has been released in this latest cable set and the threats that some of those things might cause deaths later on somewhere. Why are they now suddenly all up in arms about what's going on? Perhaps because the other leaks had some sort of "plausible deniability", despite all the evidence to corroborate them, and these ones, coming straight from the horses' mouths, cannot be denied, no matter how hard they want to wiggle and get out of them.
Domestically, Mr. Taibbi, perhaps one of the few investigative journalists around, points out the the judges of the rocket docket aren't even doing basic checks to ensure the cases coming before them are actually valid and not fraudulent. While part of it is that homeowners have to make their own defense, according to Mr. Taibbi, part of it is also because We, the People, are being conditioned to think that normal people facing The Law are always trying to hide something, and the idea that the Big Corproations might be engaged in widespread fraud hasn't sunk in yet. So they need more Leverage, less Judge Judy. Additionally, though, when the homeowner actually contests, the judges need to rule against them and close the case, rather than letting them regroup, find better forgeries, and go at it again, like Mr. Taibbi's last piece indicated was standard practice.
In politics, Death Panels. In Arizona. Just as the Palins and others said they would be, brought about by a Republican governor who yanks life away from patients in order to save a little bit of money, telling them they have to come up with the full cost of their transplant if they wish to continue living. And for what probably are fairly miniscule savings compared to the whole budget.
The phrase bipartisanship is once again resurrected from its grave to shamble about and cry for brains for a bit while the opposition party allows the party in power to surrender whatever concessions they were willing to give without securing anything in return. They party in power could stick to their guns and surprise us all, but the account here is likely what's going to happen, with the telegraphed weakness turning into giving things up completely and calling it a compormise.
Although, speaking of bipartisanship, as it turns out, from another Wikileaks cable, bipartisanship happened in a hurry when it come to making sure that the previous administration got no investigations about their torture. Priorites, priorities.
Defense Secretary Gates hinted that if the legislature passed a repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell laws, they could set the timeline for implemetnation and make it smooth. If they didn't, they were leaving it up to the mercy of the court system to impose the changes in an immediate manner.
The Century of the Fruitbat lands in Illinois for a stay, as all-but-marriage civil unions pass the state legislature. The governor says he'll sign it into law.
Despite the prevailing narrative, a survey conducted of NPR's flagship programs found that conservative guests outnumbered liberal guests by almost two to one. I kind of like the suggestion that the lack of screaming talking heads makes people think NPR is liberal, but that's visceral and had no actual proof. Perhaps NPR is the latest ACORN, smeared for something that is demonstrably untrue, with the perception persisting even after the untrue-ness was demonstrated.
In the sciences and technologies, research conducted on the strain of yersina pestis that brought about the Black Death indicates that its origin is in China.
Opening opinions, we have Mr. Carroll claiming victory on politics regarding the President's proposal to freeze civilian government salaries, while urging the machine to keep the pressure on until he gives them what they all really want. He also mentions that such a proposal isn't likely to work, and it's really just a COLA freeze, not a real freeze. What they really need, he says, is to have their pay comparable to that of the private sector, raises and bonuses for "performance" be the only way to get any extra money, and to have the retirement age raised. Total savings? $47 billion USD. In a $1,400 billion USD defecit, that's less than chump change. Plus, it has the added benefit of making sure the best and brightest continue going to the private sector instead of into government service where they will be needed. (I suspect that's the point - starve the government of good people so that it can be properly corrupted to your own ends and sold off to the private sector for them to profit.) A similar tactic to taxes is taken by The WSJ complaining that Congress's inaction on the Bush tax cuts means that the Democrats and the President should be blamed for nto giving the Republicans everything they wanted. At least they were honest about the duplicitous definition of "Small businesses", the people the Republicans say are going to be hit hardest by the increases - it's a business that employs less than 500 people. Not how much it makes in business income, but how many employees it has. I don't know many actually-small businesses get close to a $250,000 USD income for their year, but i do know there are a lot of very rich companies that employ less than 500 people and can more than afford to pay some real taxes, not that they actually will. Besides, anyone who wants to claim a debt problem will be solved by removing revenues, and doing so without actually proposing spending cuts of a similar amount, is unserious about the debt problem and should be mocked mercilessly until they come to the table with a real proposal. Mr. Boskin at least acknowledges that spending has to come down as he advocates for cutting taxes further than they are right now, believing such tax cuts will result in a stronger economy and more government revenues.
The Slacktivist notes how easily people can be convinced to do and vote for things not in their best interests, because they resent that other people do not suffer as they do. This is different than buying into the slick package that says "We're going to help you" despite having no credibility behind that based on their actual actions, no, this is the attitude that claims government workers deserve a pay cut because the private sector's greed-filled CEOs are cutting the wages of their workers. The kind that says government workers should lose their jobs because greed-filled CEOs are cutting their out workers so they can line their own pockets. The kind that says "If I Can't Have It, Neither Should You". It's resentemnt, and resentment often brings out the old lines of division, the ones that we're supposed to have been over, like race, or sexual orientation, or class. Those People are getting something They Don't Deserve, Because They're Black, or Gay, or Poor, while I'm struggling to make my own ends meet. That's the vitality of the "SOCALISM BAD!" argument, and the dark spectre of the Tea Party's aims, cloaked in the rhetoric of "small government".
On the other side of the fear and terror tw-prong attack, Mr. Schneier says the Washington Monument should be closed and stay closed until the people and their government have overcome their fear (and the malicious tendency to use it to restrict liberties) of terrorists and terrorism, to be re-opened when the American people can take an attack in stride, mourn the dead, and work harder, and praise the system when it works, instead of claiming how much it almost didn't and how weak the opposition is on security because it almost didn't work. When the American people can show the same kind of resolve the UK did during the Blitz, which will forever be far worse than any terror attack can muster, then maybe we can re-open the monument. Sounds about right, to me.
Mr. Carrol continues to harp against the new START treaty, claiming that it weakens the United States and limits our ability to destroy the world multiple times over unacceptably. He can wrangle on parts involving inspection and verification, sure, but being opposed to reducing the number of devices that can anhiliate us all easily, because it might mean someone else gets more of them than someone else, seems counterproductive to me.
Mr. Arnold expreses the prevailing conservative opinion regarding EU nations and necessary bailouts, an opinion that is quite opposite what was expressed about the United States bank bailouts. When it's Over There, Too Big to Fail should actually fail and austerity should be put in place. When it was over here, however, I recall that most conservative voices said "Too Big To Fail must be propped up, or calamity will happen! Damn the austerity, bail out the bankers!" So, is this another case of I Got Mine, Frak You?
Clearing out of opinions, we have candidates, once again, for the Worst People in the World. The bronze effort to Mr. Walter Williams, reacting to the proposed regulation of toys and unhealthy foods by laying the blame of obesity squarely at the feet of parents and claiming that one the Happy Meal ban is in place, the zealots will engage in a creeping campaign to regulate people's eating, like their tobacco use has been regulated and then dispersed. The strident defense of "parents have a right to feed their kids whaatever they want" is acceptable, but it's incomplete. It doesn't address the advertising blitzes designed to get kids to demand what's not healthy for them. It doesn't address the way we do food subsidization so that the unhealthy options are the cheapest ones, and thus the likely affordable ones for most families in or around poverty. It doesn't address the time issue for eating healthy versus the convenience of the drive-through. The regulations are trying to help parents by removing one of those issues. It's not even the most important one, but it would help, certainly.
The silver option is a dogged determination by Mr. Sowell to insist that reducing tax rates raises revenues for the government, using the long-term picture as his argument. Thing is, the extension of tax cuts would not be further tax cuts, just leaving the rates the way they are. And with the rates the way they are, what so we have of the ten years of those rates? Corporate profits going up, but not plowing them back into hiring and expanding the business, instead, people are being sacrificed to get more profit into the hands of the very richest. While I'm sure that letting tax rates rise on the rich will lead to an increased use of loopholes, exemptions, and other tricks to ensure that the rich continue to pay very little, there's always the chance that they'll grow a conscience, realize that they can't continue to pillage if there's nothing there to loot and actually pay up and hire people. Pipe dream, I know.
Tonight's outstanding entry in the category of Worst Person in the World, however, goes to thoroughly disgraced propagandist L. Brent Bozell III goes off on how transgender people should not ever be accepted in athletics as their chosen gender, ever, because it's inherently unfair to have the born-male playing in female sports, and every woman thinks it's totally gross to have a thingy showering with them, even if the pronoun and identity are female. Despite the target of his rage being about a biologically-female transgender that will continue playing for the women's basketball team, undergoing no hormone or gender-reassignment surgeries while he continues playing athletics, just with gender-appropriate pronouns now in place, and a golfer who would like to join the LPGA tour and be credited as having the longest drive as a female, for which Bozell describes her masculine build and says she has an unfair advantage. Bozell accuses transgender persons of committing "war on reality" and that non-dscrimination clauses on gender identity are helping that war. What he fails to make clear, however, is where the actual harm for all his histrionics is. There's no sudden advantage gained by asking people to refer to you as your correct gender. In the basketball player's case, since he's not getting any hormone therapeis or anything else, he has no additional competitive advantage, certainly. And as for the golfer, does he really think that a suitably strong woman with good form can't drive a golf ball 250+ yards? He's selling women short on that. Bozell is a transphobe who can't be arsed to deliver actual harms to his rant, expecting you to take his argument on face that things aren't fair and forget, say, Billie Jean King. Thoroughly discredited propagandist L. Brent Bozell III, transphobe, and Worst Person In The World.
Last out, a letter to a Senator from Illinois advising him to grow a beard to help him with a Presidential election campaign, and the response sent, a study indicating how to be a proper kiss-ass, and a matter of perspective - what life is like when the roads in San Francisco are flat.
