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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’

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Puritanism Is the Haunting Fear That Someone, Somewhere, May Be Happy

Thank you so much for this quote! I looked it up and found that the original author listed other hilarious truths - here follows an excerpt from a page on the Internet:

In 1949 H. L. Mencken published “A Mencken Chrestomathy” which included a section called “Arcana Coelestia” which contained the following four caustic items on the theme of religion

Theology —An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.

The delusion of immortality is what ruined Egypt.

Puritanism —The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I read the other day a book defending the Ten Commandments. The best of all arguments for them, however, was omitted. It is that there are not forty

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/06/25/puritanism/

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TIL that almost every year since 2015, Idaho children have died of treatable conditions. Their parents refuse medical care. It's legal in Idaho, the state just lets it happen.

This is not a feel-good story, to say the least, and I couldn't bring myself to read this article. Even the accompanying image, with the following caption, is disturbing:

Since the 1970s, the state’s criminal and civil laws have allowed parents who belong to Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray as their children die

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TACO Tuesday!

President Pedophile Donald J. Trump keeps throwing a tantrum every time he's reminded that the US lost the war he started without congressional approval. He then sulks, gets reminded that we're all still waiting for the Trump-Epstein files, and starts making demands anew on Iran.

This cycle seems to repeat itself.

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Gloves Come Off In Dem Senate Primary Debate: ‘You Threw Those Trans Kids Under the Political Bus’

Senator Ed Markey:

“There’s a reason why the Human Rights Campaign has endorsed me in this race. There’s a reason why the Christopher Street Project, the transgender community, has endorsed me in this race, and it’s because you threw those trans kids under the political bus, and you met with family members after you had made those very hurtful comments, and those families — they were hurt after they left that meeting,” Markey shot back, adding:

They said how hurt they were, and it was only two weeks ago that you finally apologized. But that’s almost two years later. Those families were hurting. They were in pain. And especially if a Democrat from Massachusetts is leading the attack upon them, then that’s why those communities have my back in this race, because I had their back during their toughest time.

Thank you, senator.