“What am I…chopped liver?”

- chopped liver becoming self-aware

I stole this from someone else rather than boosting them because they didn't include alt text. Anyway, the message is very apropos. Also, your child is more likely to be groomed by a pedophile in church or at the boy scouts than at a drag show.

[Edit: I'm told that the photograph is by Michael James Schneider, who goes by the Instagram handle (@)blcksmith. The quote is from Bob the Drag Queen (@)bobthedragqueen. And the drag artist in the photo is Tajh Jordan.]

I am reading Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains"

In my innocence & ignorance of US history I am really shocked at the anti-democratic sentiment in America expressed through John Calhoun 1782-1850, 7th Vice President of the USA, & more recently Nobel Prize-winning economist James McGill Buchanan who influenced Charles & David Koch.

I have always known that America had some people with really strange ideas (by my mid 20th Century British ideas), but it was always assumed that it was just a few nutters. Brits spent a lot of time looking over their shoulders very dubiously across the Atlantic. However, the understanding that this insanity (in my view) is so firmly & basically entrenched is really shocking.

Add to this the actual insanity being enacted now (again my subjective impression of America & insanity) & I find it very disturbing.