Culture
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Pronouns Banished in CleanSlate Newsroom
Read more: Pronouns Banished in CleanSlate NewsroomThe whole pronoun thing has been causing a lot of friction among CleanSlate’s content creators. The bloggers use gender assigned at birth, the graphic artists are transitioning to alcoholics, and the investigators are cross dressing between dirty plaids and filthy solids. All these groups are spending more time during meetings correcting each other’s pronouns than…
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Big Questions? We Will Be In Touch (jk)
Read more: Big Questions? We Will Be In Touch (jk)The following was submitted by a reader that wished to remain anonymous. We are publishing it as submitted. With the debate over MCPS’s policy for opt-out taking place, I wanted to understand where each Council Member stood on the issue. I took the time in early July to write an email asking for their opinion. …
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MoCo’s Incoherent Attempt at Being a Nanny-State, Vice-Supporting Suburban Community
Read more: MoCo’s Incoherent Attempt at Being a Nanny-State, Vice-Supporting Suburban CommunityDid you hear? Recreational marijuana is now available in Maryland! To those “adults” 21-and-over, of course (no chance the legal stuff will find its way to anyone younger in MD, wink wink). And specifically, the skunk, the green, the ganja, the “fire” is now legal and ‘recreational’ in Montgomery County, MD. Yes, nanny-state, neurotic, top-down…
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Ladies, Where are the Results?
Read more: Ladies, Where are the Results?After completing the primary election, it was clear that there was tremendous potential for Montgomery County to usher in a County Council composed of a majority of women. This created a buzz, both from a general interest perspective but also because it was a great platform to encourage voter turnout during the primary election. And…
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Selective “Ranking” Promotion by County Politicians – Why Not Show the Whole Truth of How MoCo and MD “Stack Up”?
Read more: Selective “Ranking” Promotion by County Politicians – Why Not Show the Whole Truth of How MoCo and MD “Stack Up”?“Selective Outrage” was a term made popular by the recent Chris Rock comedy special on Netflix, wherein he details “the Oscar’s slap” and aftermath for himself and Will Smith. His broader point from the comedy special is on-point too, as he showcases time and again the “selective outrage” (hypocrisy and faux-sanctimonious behavior) of select people,…
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Wild Wild County
Read more: Wild Wild CountyWhile watching the coverage of “progressive” agitator Kristin Mink’s latest racist blunder on twitter, I saw an encounter between an ally of Kristin’s, and a few members of the county that I thought would be worth a minute to cover because the language used is breathtaking, and the tactic she deployed needs to be understood…
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MCPS Expands Resources So Your Child Can Learn To Tuck and Bind
Read more: MCPS Expands Resources So Your Child Can Learn To Tuck and BindThe current controversy surrounding Montgomery County Public Schools has made national media. If you have been living in the cave over the last couple days, the activists within MCPS, the BOE, and community have been organizing to counter and smear a large and growing objection to not permitting parents from opting out of curriculum or…
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A Tale of Two MoCo Minks – While Councilmember’s Comments on Muslim Parents Go Viral, Husband’s Twitter Stays Ravens Football Focused
Read more: A Tale of Two MoCo Minks – While Councilmember’s Comments on Muslim Parents Go Viral, Husband’s Twitter Stays Ravens Football FocusedInteresting times afoot in Montgomery County, Maryland – which now finds itself back in the national news as controversy rages over parental rights, religious freedom and the ability of families to opt-out of certain MCPS (public school system) curriculums and readings to children as young as five. The tension mirrors what went on across the…
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The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice Illusion
Read more: The Opt-Out Rally and the No-Choice IllusionThere are a three commonplace events that make me pause and feel how fortunate I am to be an American. One of them is when buying paper towels and toilet paper from Costco. It’s difficult to find a more effective combination of mass production, mass consumption, voluntary exchange, impeccable quality control, and a large corporation…
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Is Evan Glass Sponsoring a Creepy White Van?
Read more: Is Evan Glass Sponsoring a Creepy White Van?In March 2023, the Mayor of College Park, Patrick Wojahn, was arrested and charged with 40 counts of possession of child pornography & 40 counts of possession with the intent to distribute. He subsequently resigned from his position. Patrick was well known and supported in the ever tight circle of MD Democrats and the MD…