Interestingly, we were never taught the KKK ties to the Stone Mountain carving in the public schools near the park. I didn’t learn those until I was (temporarily) a history major at a Florida university.

Or, as was taught in nearby middle schools, “we take Stone Mountain for granite, but it’s really gneiss”.

“Bare Minimum Pope”?

“Stonewall Uprising” on PBS. It’s up on Amazon Prime video (American Experience series).

Honestly, this isn’t very different from the crap I heard about Clinton in the 1990s from my extreme-right family members. They didn’t call him a Muslim, but they were convinced he was secretly Black, because why else would he be liberal? I guess? They’re crazy. They were also convinced he was the antichrist. Similar…

As soon as our bed is clear, our boss kitty sprawls out in the middle of it and refuses to share with the other cats. I’m pretty sure she’d try it on a bed like the one in the pic, too.

Maybe she’s from the same line as Vicki.

It doesn’t help that the people taking your money (waitstaff or cashiers) often feel the need to comment if you DO split the check. Frequently, when Mr. Fist of the Pon Farr and I pay for our own food, there’s some comment about how he’s not paying for my food. I’ve actually had counter service denied in the the form…

I wasn’t allowed to watch The Golden Girls as a kid because it was too “liberal and racy”. So, my mother figured it out? Yay.

It’s technically an extension of the Boy Scouts, as in I paid Boy Scout dues even though not a boy. It’s supposed to give students an idea of what it’s like to be a cop. Certainly dissuaded me.

Metro Atlanta area, actually.

When I was a police explorer in high school, the local cops used the explorer troops as a dating pool, basically. It was incredibly fucked up.

Seriously - someone just lost half an arm to a gator on the Wekiva River (and a swimsuit, but that mattered at lot less). Made the news in Jax, even.

I know a dude who took his wife’s last name. No fuss, no problems with the paperwork (even in Florida!). She thought his last name was kind of awful, and he agreed, and that was that. Surprisingly, the world didn’t end.

There is a difference in the local stations and the national cable network, though. I interned at this station - the closest they get to Fox News is that they occasionally use the national fluff and economic packages, and they are owned by Fox Television Studios (unlike affiliates). The anchors at Fox 35 never really…

I think some states have laws that sort of prohibit this? I don’t know how they’d enforce them, though.

The soft lens on Walters for the last couple of decades was ridiculous. The only thing I’ve seen that comes close is when RuPaul jokes about smearing Vaseline on the lens and some episodes of NCIS.

It’d be one thing, I guess, if they pixelated out all blood. But they have completely unpixelated, fairly graphic pictures from UFC bouts, including Robbie Lawler’s really (disturbingly) busted lip from a recent event. So, blood resulting from violence in sports is okay, but not non-violent blood in a non-violent…

My mother still thinks that playing D&D is “tempting the devil” or dark spirits, or whatever.

I had to call out of work once because I couldn’t find my glasses, and my fiance had already left for work before I woke up. I have such horrible vision that I am legally not allowed to drive without corrective lenses, and I couldn’t see well enough to find them, either. (Also, had no contacts at the time.) Turns out…