"Two Game Wardens, Seven Hunters, and a Pure-Bred Guernsey Cow"

Another gallimaufry for a Saturday when I should be cleaning up because house guest.

• A digest (from Republic of T) of the various anti-LGBTQ laws enacted by some Southern states, because apparently if they don't discriminate against somebody, their colons seize up.  Or something.  Let's just say here that Nina Simone and Phil Ochs are sitting in heaven trading exasperated shrugs and they-never-learn grimaces.
• As a result of North Carolina passing one of those laws, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will not be playing Greensboro.  Mr. Van Zandt explains.  Zander chastises a congressman who Doesn't Get It.  (Other corporations and states and municipalities are also pulling their people, money, and jobs out, but missing a concert really stings.)
• Cerberus looks askance.
• Geographic distribution and word cloud of Chinese restaurants.
• Paul Bibeau (Goblinbooks) has been on a roll lately.
  • General Lee (no, not the car)
  • Mississippi 
  • American Exceptionalism
• It is probably not a good idea to boot a well-known television journalist off a delayed (for 4 hours) flight that he is already live-tweeting.  (Yes, American Airlines might have reason to be twitchy.  But Mr. Uygur is kind of famous; they should have given him a double refund and a non-disclosure agreement.  Are they begging for bad publicity?)
• Higher vocational schools education in Kentucky.  (I begin to suspect that being condemned to repeat history because ignorant is what Republicans want.)

Internet is being spotty today, I say between gritted teeth.