Random Musings

• Why is it that when white men dress up in blackface it's considered an insult to blacks, but when men dress up as women and put on heavy facial makeup it's not considered an insult to women?
• Why is it that it's illegal for children to get tattoos, buy cigarettes or guns, drive cars or get married, but in some states they can have their bodies permanently mutilated simply because they're temporarily confused about their gender?
• Why do people scoff at the account of a man rising from the dead while believing that the first living cell could emerge spontaneously by an undirected accident in a chemical stew, an event that's biochemically impossible.
• Why was it wrong to justify slavery by asserting that blacks were less than human, or to commit mass murder of Jews by declaring Jews were less than human, but it's okay for some women to kill their unborn children because, it's argued, they're less than human?
• Why do some people think that no books, no matter how graphic, should be off-limits in elementary school libraries but high school libraries should not carry the works of Mark Twain?
• Why do some people think it's appropriate to subject children to stories about sexual matters, but older students should be given "trigger warnings" before they're exposed to political topics that may make them uncomfortable?
• The easier we make it to vote the more votes that will be cast by people who don't otherwise care much about their civic responsibilities and the more likely it'll be that unworthy candidates will get elected.
• Puritanism has been defined as the fear that someone, somewhere is having fun. Perhaps "wokeism" can be defined as the fear that someone, somewhere is thinking for himself.