For all you readers out there who enjoy bashing on Texas, I have a new one for you.
I live in Austin and since I'm a Progressive, I suffer almost by definition from the bubble syndrome. Surrounded by so many others like me, it's easy to forget the amount of crazy on the other side of the membrane. I've been pretty aggressive about defending Texas here and other places where people say stupid and asinine things like "Let's show Abbott by pulling all the military bases and NASA out of the state, that'll fix him and make him cry uncle!", which is paraphrase but close enough. But even I am long past weary of the grind that is Texas Republican insanity.
Today as I left work, listening to the venerable Austin NPR affiliate KUT, two things happened. First, they were running a report on the SCOTUS death penalty ruling (featuring Scalia no less) and I ran over a grackle that didn't fly out of the way. Anyone who has ever killed an animal accidentally while driving probably understands how I felt at that moment, which was physically ill and terribly sad. There was nothing I could have done to avoid it, but that doesn't make it any better, for the grackle or for me.
Then, on came a story about Austin City Council member Don Zimmerman, who is apparently our resident RWNJ. Now, I haven't paid a whole lot of attention to City Council of late, and I only know Zimmerman by name and not by reputation, but that reputation seems to have caught up with him in the aftermath of the SCOTUS equality ruling and it isn't pretty.
Turns out a few days ago (today was first I've heard of it) this jackass took a public dump on Facebook, and now he's facing an ethics complaint from a member of the public. Jump the gay broom for more...
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