Tag: Monty Python
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Republicans Believe “Every Sperm Is Sacred”
Strange, isn’t it? With conservatives, it always comes down to gonads. Now, I’m not saying every conservative is sexually repressed – Hot Tub Johnny Bolton was notorious for being unrepressed in a crazed, sex party kind of way. But, as a party, Republicans sure do spend a lot of time thinking about other peoples’ reproductive […]
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Why Don’t More Men Get Themselves “Snipped”?
Full transparency (this is the part where I drop trow). I’m “snipped”. In 2002, a year after my daughter (child number two) was born, after a series of conversations with my wife, I agreed to undergo a vasectomy – as the principle form of birth control my wife and I would use going forwards. This […]
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Republicans Have Achieved “Peak Magical Thinking”
The Republican Party could run a master class on magical thinking. That’s a measure of their absolute expertise on the subject – from imagining it to propagating it to accepting it. In essence and in fact, magical thinking is a safe space for tender, snowflakey feelings. Facts are anathema. They simply don’t get along with […]