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This past September marked the one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the most reprinted newspaper editorial of all time in the English language. The back-story is just as important … so I’d like to reprise/update this account, if you’ll follow me after the jump ….

Interrogatories

When you go to sleep on the night before Christmas, are those visions of sugarplums dancing in your head, or something else? What?

Have you ever been discriminated against on the job by an employer?

It’s National Roots Day. Tell me about your roots. Are they in need of a touch up? Perhaps they are invasive and getting into the plumbing. Perhaps you are spending too much time on ancestry.com? Or maybe there is a team you are rooting for?

Did you ever, in your life, get addicted to a soap opera?

The Twitter Emitter

#YouMightBeARepublican if you wanted Bashir fired for offending Palin w/facts but Phil Robertson forgiven for insulting millions w/bigotry

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 20, 2013

The ten most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm Paul Ryan and I'm here to help the poors.'

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 20, 2013

Is it too ridiculous to pray that we’re close to the end of America’s redneck fetish?

— ¡socratic! (@socratic) December 20, 2013

George Zimmerman will have to shoot another black child if he wants to prevent #DuckDynasty guy from replacing him as GOP conv keynote #tcot

— Gen JC Xtian patriot (@JC_Christian) December 20, 2013

Phil Robertson recommends "12 Years A Slave" because sometimes you just want to see a movie where the folks onscreen are having fun.

— Bonnie McFarlane (@bonniemcfarlane) December 20, 2013

BREAKING: Standoff at Macy's as Ted Cruz is blocking checkout line and refusing to move until Obama agrees to repeal Obamacare.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) December 20, 2013

First they came for the 67-year old bearded Southerners with antiquated beliefs, and I said nothing, because zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 20, 2013

Target may be bad but lots of hacking at Walmart as well. It's the lung of the guy in front of me buying cigarettes and Vienna Sausages.

— CrutnackerNutcracker (@Crutnacker) December 20, 2013

I feel bad for Conservatives choosing sides between gay bashing and capitalism. Must be like picking a favorite child. #DuckDynasty

— DadNeedsADrink (@DadNeedsADrink) December 20, 2013

If it whines like a duck, bitches like a duck and is bigoted like a duck then it's a wingnut.

— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) December 20, 2013

On Friday afternoon, District Court Judge Robert Shelby released his ruling stating that the Utah ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.

The response was … people getting married!!

And for the State of Utah to ask for a stay, for the governor to tell the counties to wait before complying with federal law (!), and for the County of Salt Lake to promise to issue marriage licenses until the court tells them to stop.

Today at 8am MST, in Salt Lake City, the county clerks office will re-open and more marriages will take place.

At 9am MST, Judge Shelby will hear arguments on whether or not to grant a stay heard arguments and denied the stay.

UPDATE: Tuesday evening 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Utah’s Stay Request

 The state can ask the Circuit Justice for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to review an application for a stay. The Circuit Justice there is Justice Sotomayor. She can decide to grant or deny a stay on her own, or ask the full Court to decide.

We continue to wait and watch … one step closer.

TV news links: KUTV 2, Fox13Now

  Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Snow again here. 3rd accumulating snow so far this year, more than we had all last winter.

I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

SEPARATED at BIRTH – two old photos of noted musicians: veteran session keyboard player (and DK contributor) John Hobbs … and Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Stu Cook.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

Let me preface all this by saying that, since I grew up with hardcore white Republicans (family and friends) in the Deep South, I’m pretty familiar with distasteful “humor.” I’m not trying to stereotype — I’m just speaking from my experience. I have heard more… questionable jokes in my lifetime than I can count. Racist jokes, sexist jokes, “dead baby” jokes, and plenty of other nasty attempts at humor.

That said…

I am hard-pressed to think of an occasion when I’ve come across a more offensive attempt at getting a laugh than this one:

Hi everyone!

I’d like to pen something super-serious and politically relevant, but I don’t have the attention span at the moment. So instead, I’ll just ask you all to describe your holiday traditions this time of year. What, if anything, do you do? Songs, movies, decorations, presents, family, food, rituals… what do the holidays entail for you? Anything you can think of. Any culture, any religion, any background, any upbringing, or any lack thereof. Tell me about it!

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This will be a short one, but —  my amazing, wonderful, fantastic state senator Kirk Watson is matching the next $10,000 in donations to Wendy Davis. Kirk is an old friend, a great feminist, who was part of the resistance to the anti-choice shenanigans last summer. And here he is, really stepping up to turn Texas blue next year.

here’s the donation page: https://secure.wendydavistexas…