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Sorry; earworm.

• Fisking a parody:  Professor Chaos (The Daily Irritant) dismantles a conservative rewriting of the President's proclamation of Gay Pride Month.  (Link to original [on WND.com] at end of post.)

  Yes, it is the gays causing societal upheaval. It is the gay rights activists, for instance, that cause so many children to be born out of wedlock to teenage girls. [...] It is clearly the fault of the gays that much of rural America is in the grip of Meth and opiate addiction.

• The Rude One on recognizing a historical moment:

  This is just a pause to acknowledge that Clinton's nomination is a big fucking deal. As President Obama said, she is eminently qualified for the job. She was a great senator, and her tenure as Secretary of State actually involved more than Benghazi and her email server, although that's all the fuck you hear about. We have plenty of time to complain about her coziness with Wall Street, with her hawkishness, her coziness with tyrants, and more.

• Workfare reality.  (Via the sidebar at the Daily Irritant, just because.)

  ...[T]his bullshit of forcing people to work for pennies? It's dehumanizing, it's devaluing their labor. It's telling the poor they're worthless, or close to it. If their work had any meaning, the program would calculate the hours differently, make it a closer match between a legal wage and the amount they're going to receive. But when it's the equivalent of $1/hour or less? Then it's pretty obvious the work doesn't mean anything; it's the punishment part that's important.