New York City to lock up "mentally ill" without trial

Since 2020, the bigger the city, the more of a fascist stronghold it is.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams – already on record as supporting child abuse, getting a city worker fired for speaking out against it, and running an administration that lied in court in a related case – is at it again. Adams has now announced the city will involuntarily commit the so-called "mentally ill" without any sort of trial or hearing, even if they pose no threat to anyone.

Why? Because Eric Adams is a hateful, hateful man, that's why. In a city with a long string of incompetent mayors, that shouldn't be too surprising, but Adams's totalitarianism has few rivals.

Today's Democratic "leaders" hate America, and they hate freedom. It shows every time their traps flip open.

New York's latest directive would unambiguously violate the Supreme Court's 1975 O'Connor v. Donaldson ruling. This unanimous landmark decision says people may not be indefinitely committed against their will.

Wait! There's more! The city is also urging passage of a state law to bolster the city's stance.

The Coalition for Homeless rightly blasted the city's new directive, but the city is sure to dig in.

In the 2000s and 2010s, America's cities were the home of modern pioneers and innovators. Now our cities are the home of gentrified goosesteppers.

Colleges should pay to have student debt canceled

One of the issues Occupy took up was student debt. Occupy Cincinnati once had a march about this issue, and we were actually attacked during it.

These days, I don't expect anything productive to be done on this or any other matter, given the sorry state of our political system. To give you an idea of how bad things are, in one recent local election, the supposedly most progressive of the 3 candidates wanted to bring back the draft. Today's so-called progressives have become the war hawks that real progressives have long fought against.

I've long supported canceling student debt, but not long ago, some folks actually raised a good argument against it. While debt would be canceled for people who went to college, what about those who never had the chance to go to college? What do they get from canceling student debt?

That's a fair point, but it doesn't make college debt any less burdensome. Another drawback of canceling student debt is that all of us taxpayers would be on the hook for it. So here's my solution: Make colleges pay for it. This would apply to public and private colleges alike, so not all of it would be shouldered by taxpayers.

Think of this as a warranty. For decades, I've said that schools should be subject to warranties that guarantee the quality of the education they offer. If a school doesn't provide an education that allows one to make enough money to pay off their debt, whose fault is that? Is it my fault we have such shitty schools?

Many of our schools are run by some bad, bad people, and there's new evidence emerging all the time they'd rather teach hatred of the Bill of Rights than useful academic material. Our colleges bash the principles America is supposed to be run on, and they ought to pay a price just for that. I hope that with the decline of our colleges just in this decade, society can lift the violent taboo against not attending college.

Republicans win U.S. House

Oh no!

Anyway...

Rural areas moving to the left of urban areas?

There's no law that says urban areas have to be to the political left of rural areas. In fact, the United States since 2000 has been the exception, not the rule. But now, some election results show that rural counties may be trending leftward, while large metropolitan areas are stagnating by moving to the right.

This is now true to an extent in Kentucky. As the dreadful and extreme Amendment 2 was defeated, the county breakdown shows that it won Boone County while losing Carroll County. It won Daviess and McCracken counties but lost Henry and Nicholas counties.

This indicates that fighting against COVID bio-juche isn't the only issue where rural areas have improved over the cities. Urban areas are becoming more authoritarian on issues in general – while rural areas may be becoming less so, even on issues such as abortion rights.

The voting patterns seen in this cycle for referendums and nonpartisan elections doesn't seem to bear any correlation with partisan results. America's party system is undergoing a realignment as significant as what took place during the Civil War and the New Deal.

America may be approaching an era in which rural areas are actually more liberal than urban areas. It's like it's 1990 again. Yes, you too can live in Eminence or Glendive!

COVID maximalism loses at the polls

Days after the election, we still don't know what party will control either the House or the Senate, but one thing is clear. COVID maximalism has lost in the court of public opinion.

One of few major candidates in the entire country to run against COVID totalitarianism was – oddly enough – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. He ended up winning in one of the most significant landslides anywhere. Some governors who were some of the most diehard lockdownists in America survived because their challengers failed to attack them for their COVID maximalism.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, lost largely because he was one of the first well-known Americans to endorse lockdowns. Oz had praised the Chinese Communist Party for its embrace of "zero COVID" authoritarianism.

Whatever the weather, people all over America and around the world are tired of the bio-juche police state and the lies spread to prop it up.

Celebrity look-alike cruise

You may have heard of a celebrity cruise. But what about a celebrity look-alike cruise?

I just received an important e-mail about a recent cruise in which numerous celebrity look-alikes were seen. They included Elvis Presley, Brian Dennehy, Boris Yeltsin, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Elvis look-alike was so hilarious that one day when he was at the pool, another feller began yelling, "Elvis is in the house!"

In addition, a man wearing a Brigham Young University shirt audibly passed gas while strolling through an elevator lobby. Also, some woman bubbled.

Have no fear, the November ish is here!

November wouldn't be November if you couldn't pop open a toilet or three and relax with the November ish of The Last Word!

In October, Zinecinnati came to town, and we saw it all! Also, this ish talks about CNBC's idiotic airport stores, another McDonald's tantrum, lost 'Sesame Street' episodes, photocopying bubble gum, airlines destroying luggage, records getting ruined by sewage, and more!

Once again, Scribd is blocking this ish until they can get their spam filters in order, but you can find the latest edition of The Last Word here...

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201 photos and videos (so far) from my trip out west!

In the month of ba-de-ya, I went on a fact-finding mission out west. I picked up 2 new states, and the trip was so action-packed that it is expected that I will amass a total of 459 photos and videos of Roads Scholaring interest.

This caused me to split the trip into 2 massive photo shoots, which splits the trip down the middle. The first grand batch consists of 9 parts and 201 items. And you're gonna peep 'em until you can blow a bubble with 'em...

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Amendment 2: another assault on bodily autonomy

"My body, my choice" means what it says.

I've fought against the media as they relentlessly dig in on their support of mask mandates. Bodily integrity should be an unassailable value in a free society. But this also applies to reproductive freedom.

There's been a big misconception that those who support extreme abortion bans are not the same people who support mask mandates. But if that was true, why do we have both? Some folks have noted that in the past few years, right-wing war hawks and authoritarians have merged with the "liberal" intelligentsia. That's why we see right-wing extremists like Bill Kristol joining the Democratic Party.

On November 8, Kentuckians will have the chance to reject Amendment 2 – a referendumb that would amend the Kentucky Constitution to enact one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. If this miserable amendment passes, the Kentucky Constitution would be hamstrung against protecting reproductive liberty. A trigger law would go into effect that would outlaw abortion even in cases of rape or incest, and Amendment 2 would snuff out any challenges to this trigger law.

Although this amendment was introduced by Republicans, the Democrats haven't lifted a finger to fight it. Sadly, this is not a surprise, given the Democrats' painful takeover by factions that seem singularly dedicated to expanding government overreach. And government overreach is what Amendment 2 is. There is strong sentiment out there against government intrusion into personal behavior. Limits on reproductive rights are as troublesome as the ever-expanding prison state and the unending COVID maximalism that has been cheered by the media.

When I said I stand for limited government, I meant it.

Occupy Democrats gave to McConnell as allegations of pocketing donations swirl

Here's yet another bombshell that the media is going to sweep under the rug.

Remember the popular Occupy movement of a decade ago that the media hated so? There's still little shards of debris out there exploiting the Occupy banner, and one of them is Occupy Democrats. They claim to be a group of Occupy supporters within the Democratic Party - but all they do is spew venom. They don't contribute a damn thing that's positive. Nothing they post is recognizably Occupy.

Now it's been found that just before the 2020 election, the Occupy Democrats Election Fund donated $40,000 to the McConnell Senate Committee – as the Senate Republican leader cruised to reelection. Even after the Democrats completely abandoned the bedrock values of their historic supporters, Mr. Elbow Care remained one of the worst Republicans out there.

Just as shocking, it took 2 years for anyone else to find it. We never would have found it, because we never would have thought to look for it, and we don't have enough staffers to look for it. A larger operation has no excuse not to find it more quickly.

Wikipedia says Occupy Democrats "publishes false information, hyperpartisan content, and clickbait." Yet somehow, the group's posts "are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook." The University of Iowa library said Occupy Democrats "has been known to show misleading, fake, or exaggerated partisan content." The Valencia College library placed Occupy Democrats on a list of sources that "cannot usually be accepted at face value and need further verification from other sources to determine if information is credible." Even the Atlantic said Occupy Democrats is "studded with straightforwardly fake news", and BuzzFeed said Occupy Democrats once published a satirical story as fact. Yet Joe Biden's 2020 campaign worked directly with Occupy Democrats for its messaging.

But wait! There's more! A devastating new article in the Raw Story says founders of Occupy Democrats are being accused of pocketing donations to the group. According to these allegations, the founders funneled money they raised through their PAC into their own businesses and donated precisely zero to Democratic campaigns. Hundreds of thousands of dollars went to "fundraising consultants." Yes, they fundraised to pay for "fundraising consultants."

One of the founders claimed that Occupy Democrats is a superPAC, so it can only spend donations on consultants and messaging, because it is not allowed to donate to candidates. So why did it donate to McConnell? One reporter said that's because it's actually not a superPAC but a hybrid PAC. This means Occupy Democrats is too dumb to even know how its own PAC works.

A commenter on the Raw Story piece asked if Occupy Democrats was a Republican front all along designed to scam Democrats into donating. Another said there is a history of the rich hijacking movements for financial gain. I think the only difference between Occupy Democrats and other groups is that Occupy Democrats got caught. I know MoveOn and Drinking Liberally are scams. I don't think MoveOn always was a scam, but it has been since at least 2020.

What about all the "progressive" blogs that all suddenly shifted to COVID maximalism and began supporting lockdowns at the exact same moment? Who was paying them off? It doesn't seem likely that these blogs would abandon their principles unless they were being paid off.

The Occupy Democrats scandal ought to raise suspicion about other shitlib organizations and blogs. But it probably won't, because the media won't cover it.

Have no fear, the October ish is here!

It's gonna be an October to ploptober, as the October ish of The Last Word is now pub!

This ish talks about another road trip out west, struggles with buying a new computer, hotel pools usually being closed, people playing frisbee with a John Denver record, a person spitting food on Monopoly money, a person getting bubble gum stuck in their sock, and more!

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Chaka Khan look-alike sighted

I just spent a half-hour trying in vain to fit "I Feel For You" into a title about celebrity look-alikes. Oh well. Anyway, I received an important e-mail saying a Chaka Khan look-alike was sighted a few days ago.

Also, as the proliferation of green bubble gum continues, this e-mail said a person was seen bubbling a big, green bub in a car. It was also reported that someone pooped all over the back of a toilet at an NFL game in Cleveland.

School-to-prison pipeline widens in Cincinnati

I and many other Americans spent the 2010s fighting against the school-to-prison pipeline. The fascism of the 2020s has set our hard work back by generations.

At a meeting last week, Cincinnati school board members voted 6 to 1 to keep armed police in schools – even though studies showed that placing armed cops in schools is not useful. This also came after school police fell under scrutiny for racist practices.

Like so many other things, the school-to-prison pipeline has only gotten worse over the years. Some folks insist things were just as bad in the 1970s, but they forget that I was alive then and I'm old enough to remember that America was much freer then. The University of Connecticut Center for Education Policy Analysis says that in 1975, only 1% of American schools reported having police on site, but that number had ballooned to 58% by 2018. In fact, Cincinnati was one of the first school districts to fall to these pressures.

School police have also come under fire for arresting youths for acts that are not even criminal.

America has become a totalitarian police state where every move is controlled, and no institution exemplifies it more than our broken schools. We are at war with the monsters who run our schools, and we must step up our efforts against these child abusers. Shame on the unseemly goblins who run our schools.

If anyone needs to be armed, it's the students.

Celebrity look-alike boldly goes where no man has gone before

Today at Kroger, I saw a William Shatner look-alike.

Also, some woman driving down Carothers Road bubbled.

People plopped stuff at Ploptoberfest (imagine that!)

You're slipping!

Last night, I went to Oktoberfest in Cincinnati – or, as I call it, Ploptoberfest. It wasn't as illustrious as last year, when I threw up across from the Enquirer building and people drank beer on the streetcar, but it existed nonetheless.

Ploppings aren't as creative as they were a decade ago. However, I did notice that someone put a plastic Kroger bag and a beverage bottle in the toilet. As a bonus, someone smashed a packet of ketchup on the wall in a portable restroom.

Also – predictably – a person was in such a festive mood that they bubbled.

Surprise! Splat!

Today, I got home from a road trip all the way across the country. I even went to Washington and Oregon, so now I've been to every state in the contiguous 48 states and D.C. This fact-finding mission is known as the September Surprise!

Celebrity look-alikes abounded. They included Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bezos, David Canary, and Dick Cheney. But I plan to elaborate on them more in the next ish of The Last Word.

Also, after I got home, I received an important e-mail declaring that a Pink look-alike was sighted at Meijer.

Kazooing is cool

Earlier, I went to Rip-off-fest, as I warned I might do.

My proud smuggling tradition continued. I smuggled in Dr Pepper and a kazoo in defiance of the fest's rules against bringing in beverages and musical instruments. Just to make sure I was violating their dumb rules, I briefly played the kazoo, but it was just the first few notes of "Smoke On The Water."

Also, a person was in such a festive mood that they bubbled.

Georgetown! Maysville! Ripley! Game day bucket go boom!

Back in July, I goed on a little automotive Roads Scholaring just east of Cincinnati. This event yielded 45 photos, and peepage is in order. This also means I'm finally caught up on recent Scholaring photos. So glide on over here...

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Where's my kazoo?

Every year, the list of items prohibited at Rip-off-fest gets longer and longer – if they have the event at all.

Rip-off-fest is my name for Riverfest – a so-called festival in Cincinnati. I usually attend the fireworks display each year and smuggle in a soft drink – as beverages are prohibited. I've never been caught, but I once saw a young woman harassed for trying to bring in a soda from Frisch's Big Boy.

This year, the list of banned items includes some bans I've never noticed before. For example, musical instruments are banned. Maybe I'll look for my kazoo later. Balloons and beach balls are banned too. Whistles and tools are also banned.

After I smuggled in Pepsi, last year's Rip-off-fest was a fun little diversion, and we had fine weather. Everyone smiled widely, and a column of mucus even dangled from the nose of a youngster who was approximately 10 years old. It looks like this year we might not be so lucky with the weather. But the weather might not be what keeps people away, as turning the event into a police state might instead be the culprit.

165 photos from the Chicago roadmeet!

Remember back in June when I went to the Chicago roadmeet? Remember? Sure ya do!

That trip yielded 165 Scholaring photos, and you're legally required to peep every single one!

So beeble your bubs here...

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Have no fear, the September ish is here!

Guess what? Ba-de-ya! That's what!

The September ish of The Last Word is now pub, and it will make your navel spontaneously combust!

This ish talks about the decline of local community colleges, the gentrification leaf blower, a psychiatrist discussing flatulence, a kid cussing at a store, YouTube hiding downvotes, a person chewing 40-year-old 'Dallas' gum, a zine convention humiliating itself, and more!

So point your pooper here...

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Newsom to the right of Campbell County Fiscal Court

Campbell County, Kentucky! My home county! It's also the home of notoriously right-wing public and private schools, ridiculous campaigns against adult entertainment venues, an official cover-up of school officials' harassment campaign against an 11-year-old, burgeoning gentrification, and other reactionary policies.

But at least Campbell County Fiscal Court (the county's governing body) approved a syringe access program several years ago that was surprisingly ahead of its time.

This actually places Campbell County to the left of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. You knew the man was a shitlib, because you regularly read this blog, as most cool people do. On Monday, Newsom actually vetoed a bill approved by legislators that would have allowed some cities to open supervised drug injection sites in an effort to put a dent in the increase of fatal overdoses. The growth of substance abuse over the past 2 years was in turn largely caused by Newsom's failed lockdowns.

Naturally, Newsom is being held up as a possible future presidential candidate by the media.

Oh boy! Gavin Newsom versus Nikki Haley! What a stinker that'll be! I think I'll retire to Sweden or Nicaragua.

At least I was never assaulted for not wearing a mask at a picnic in Campbell County – which happened to people in California under Newsom.

Val Demings attacks Marco Rubio from the right

The Democrats have gone full-on fascist.

Rep. Val Demings is likely to be the Democratic nominee to challenge Marco Rubio for Senate. Rubio was first elected as a Tea Party favorite. So I never thought I'd see a major Democrat attack Rubio from the right. Yet Demings has managed to do exactly that.

Recently, Demings charged that an associate of Rubio has ties to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro – who Demings called a "socialist dictator."

Uh, Maduro was democratically elected.

This is Joe McCarthy-level stuff. In my day, liberal Democratic leaders were strongly opposed to communist dictatorships, but generally did not use red-baiting to attack Republicans from the right. This nonsense about a "socialist dictator" sounds like it's straight out of the pages of the Tea Party or the Reagan regime.

Demings has other extremist positions. She was one of the most avid lockdownists of the COVID pandemic, praising draconian lockdowns in other states and repeatedly urging lockdowns and other extreme measures in Florida. If you told me 30 years ago that in 2022 there would be a major Senate candidate who red-baits an opponent and demands that a whole state be placed on house arrest over a coronavirus, I would have thought, "Man, the Republicans sure have gotten extreme!" Except this time it's not the Republicans.

Florida's Democratic Party is in shambles – just as the party is in the rest of the country. America has a broken party system that is now ready for the trash heap of history.

Another celebrity look-alike at Kroger

Today at Kroger, I saw some woman who strongly resembled singer Carlene Carter.

Joe Fischer got skeeped at

Hey! Did you know there's a nonpartisan race for Kentucky Supreme Court on the November ballot?

Incumbent Justice Michelle Keller is facing a challenge from State Rep. Joe Fischer. You may know that Fischer – a Fort Thomas Republican – is an extreme conservative. And when I say he's right-wing, man, do I mean right-wing! Fischer isn't just conservative. He's on a completely different plane of existence!

I know that these days, Fischer occasionally sounds almost reasonable compared to the lockdown totalitarians. Fischer isn't really a lockdown right-winger like Mike DeWine and Rodrigo Duterte are. And make no mistake, when I first voted in 1991, lockdowns would have been considered a right-wing authoritarian policy. Lockdownists don't get to practice wokewashing to hide their tyranny.

Now Fischer has been chided by the Kentucky Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee because in his campaign materials he talks about being a conservative Republican. In other words, he's running a partisan race – which violates the Kentucky Constitution's provisions that judicial races must be nonpartisan. The committee sent a letter that observes, "When judicial candidates emphasize their affiliation with a political party, they erode long-held American principles of judicial independence and fairness." The letter says legal disputes should "be decided by an impartial tribunal that is not influenced by political affiliations."

In addition, look how badly partisanship has ruined the other branches of government lately. On an increasing basis, the parties have built their entire identities around truly vile, repulsive policies.

Hopefully, Fischer's rightist poologgery will be soundly rejected by voters in November.

School grants itself the right to read students' text messages

You can usually count on the individuals who run our schools to be good little goose-steppers.

I heard via one of the people on Twitter who I follow that an unspecified school – apparently in the Bay Area – has a new policy regarding cellphones. It says school officials are now allowed to read any text messages between students – even if these messages were sent outside of school hours or away from school property.

Back in my day, there was a TV show called 'That's Incredible!' If there was a show today about America's schools, it could be called 'That's Unconstitutional!' Just about everything schools do displays their hostility to constitutional liberties that were rarely even in doubt only a generation ago.

California schools have been especially Nazi lately. They seem to burn a lot of books there.

The government lies a lot

Yesterday, the CDC ostensibly loosened official guidance regarding COVID, but all this does is highlight how much the government has been lying to us since the pandemic started.

If I go into more detail about what I think, I'll be censored. Now that it's come out that the Biden administration pressured social networking sites into censoring users for having the "wrong" opinions, that point is especially relevant. It's also way past time to start the prosecution phase for the atrocities that have been committed since 2020. Neither major party is innocent.

Yesterday's guidance brings to mind how we've been lied to about masks. When COVID vaccines were introduced, we were told that vaccination was the ticket out of restrictions. At minimum, we were led to believe that anyone who got vaccinated would be completely exempt from all mask mandates. That was a lie. They lied to us with a straight face. Many public and private agencies continued to dig in long after that – and some have continued to do so today. Yes, today – even after yesterday's new guidelines. This is almost 2 years after a vaccine came out.

I got vaccinated the very moment I was permitted to, and got both doses. This took place in early 2021. I feel that if a safe and effective vaccine is out there, people should use it, unless they're medically ineligible. Vaccination has long been considered a great tool to protect not just the person getting vaccinated but all of society. But what are we supposed to think when mask mandates aren't lifted even after all eligible people have had a chance to be vaccinated?

We were also told that once we reach herd immunity, COVID would no longer be considered a pandemic disease, so all restrictions would be dropped. The upper estimate for herd immunity was placed at 70%. We were promised that if 70% of people had immunity resulting from either infection or vaccination, it was over. That was another lie. The CDC itself said just yesterday that a whopping 95% of Americans now have immunity. Yet the stupid continues.

We are out of patience – and I do mean we, not just I. I have consulted with others, who have very strong credentials, and they have absolutely no patience left whatsoever. Personally, I shall continue to do everything within my power to avoid places that have a mask mandate – as I have done for over 2 years. I made exceptions for places like supermarkets and convenience stores that seemed unlikely to enforce the rules that ostensibly existed, and there wasn't a chance in a million I was going to comply outdoors. I have valid medical reasons for avoiding maskage. When I was in 4th grade, a teacher tied me to a chair and stuffed a rag in my mouth, and maskage mimics this assault. Early in the pandemic, I conducted an experiment with maskage. I kept swallowing uncontrollably, I had trouble breathing, my heart started racing, and I got a headache after a very short time. The media does not get to gaslight us by saying "everyone" is able to wear a mask. Yet they have said it many times. The more proof you provide that this is false, the more they double down.

Digging in after being proven wrong is known as the smart idiot effect. They've been doing this since long before COVID – especially on matters related to the economy. Bush did it after his lies that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction were debunked.

The media does not get to be the arbiter of what people are medically able to do. I shouldn't have to explain this. This is common sense. Three years ago, I didn't have groveling for the right to breathe without obstruction on my bingo card for this decade.

The government has lied to us so much about COVID that nobody pays any attention to the virus anymore except to try to avoid the lingering restrictions. Nobody trusts our overlords.

Pelosi praises China

There ya have it, folks.

In an interview with 'Today' – yes, I know 'Today' isn't exactly a bastion of populism – Nancy Pelosi praised the government of mainland China. Pelosi said, "China is one of the freest societies in the world. Don't take it from me. That's from Freedom House. It's a strong democracy."

I did check Freedom House, and it ranks China as one of the least free countries in the world. And that's a source that actually overestimates how much freedom most countries have. So bust goes that bubble.

American media companies have major interests in China. Gavin Newsom spoke at the annual gala for Sing Tao, a newspaper with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. American politicians of both major parties have supported Sing Tao. The CCP is gobbling up real estate all over America, stockpiling it, and jacking up housing costs.

America has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.

Bucs stadium violated ADA (a blast from the past)

This is yet another story yielded by the Big Cleaning. I've found lots of little tidbits, such as Rod Blagojevich trying to ban milk in Illinois schools, but many of them never seemed to become actual policy.

Unfortunately, many stories reported on actual events, not mere proposals. In 2005, the Tampa Sports Authority discriminated against disabled Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans who attended games at Raymond James Stadium. The agency sent a form letter to fans who used wheelchairs saying that sealed wheelchair cushions were no longer allowed at games. The letter said cushions must now have an opening so they can be opened up and inspected when fans entered the stadium.

This subjected disabled fans to more intensive scrutiny than other spectators – thus violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. But why was anyone subjected to major scrutiny at all? It was because this was when the NFL was instituting its new pat-down searches of fans.

One of the nobodies with the sports authority said they were "bending over backwards to accommodate" disabled fans. That's a load of roo gas - reminiscent of the news report where wealthy agribusiness owners complained that farm workers got too many rights. The agency suggested a "remedy" in which bomb-sniffing dogs would inspect the cushion. Seriously, they said that.

Because the ACLU actually cared about civil liberties back then – unlike today – the group had a lawsuit against the NFL's invasive pat-downs.

In the years since, the NFL has gotten more and more abusive. Like the rest of North America's big league sports industry, the NFL was ear-deep in the COVID-inspired fascism of a year or two ago. I think it's time for Congress to revoke the antitrust exemptions of the NFL, Major League Baseball, and other sports leagues.

When they tried to force cable systems to carry religious channels (a blast from the past)

Let's take a trip back to the bubble gum bustin' year 2005!

This is when self-described "moralists" – yes, they used that term to describe themselves – wanted to pass a law requiring cable TV systems to carry religious channels. Several members of Congress inserted such language into a bill dealing with the switch from analog TV to the much-despised digital format.

Supporters of this plan said cable companies were deliberately shoving religious broadcasting aside – even though many companies offered several religious channels. Several years earlier, one cable provider even struck a deal with congressional "leaders" to drop a local channel that covered liberal rallies and replace it with full-time fundamentalist preaching.

How about fair coverage for all minority groups? If cable companies had to carry religious channels, they should have also had to open up access to any other group. Public access channels were required to allow such access, but no group got a whole channel. In fact, most public access channels were just filled with a rotating series of messages consisting of text on a computer screen. There was nothing preventing religious groups from making public access programs – like everyone else had to do.

The proposed law also blasted a gaping cavern through the claims – which persist today – that the FCC can't bring back the fairness doctrine and impose it on cable channels, or that the FCC can't place ownership caps on how many channels a large corporation may own. It also rips to shreds any claims that the FCC can't encourage stations to show quality children's programming.

Those who endorse government censorship based on content are usually the same weenieistic hypocrites who oppose regulation for the purpose of public interest – such as ownership caps.

If a pound of doublethink is worth a million dollars, I want mining rights to our rulers' heads.