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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
9. 100 years ago actual lynchings were considered wholesome entertainment.
Sun Sep 8, 2013, 10:09 PM
Sep 2013

We've gone from Segregation to an African American President, Stonewall to an inexorable march towards LGBT marriage equality, in the space of a few decades.

This guy's an asshole, but he's enabled more by advances in large format digital printing on vinyl than anything else.

I don't buy the "culture in crisis" narrative. I actually think things are improving, even in Texas.

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