Distractions

• Via Zandar Versus The Stupid, the news that the 2017 NBA All-Star Game will not take place in Charlotte, NC.  

  The issue is centered on North Carolina’s House Bill 2, a law that mandates transgender people use public restrooms corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificates. The law also omits LGBT people from North Carolina’s anti-discrimination protections, forbids local governments from widening LGBT protections and excludes all forms of workplace discrimination lawsuits from North Carolina state courts.
  
  “While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2,” the league said.

• Two items from Sardonicky, who is on Driftglass's blogroll:
  
  • "Kindergarten Fascists of the GOP," which contains prime snark:

    They're obviously thinking back fondly to the only school setting in which many of them excelled: Recess.

    and then it gets mean.
  • "Kleveland Klux Konvention," which is examples of Republicans displaying their backsides, one of whom squats in his own poo.
• "Black People Are Ordinary People," which everyone needs to read.
• Because this stuff happens, and even though it was non-fatal, it shouldn't have happened at all.  I mean, if we're dealing with Star Trek alien energy vampires, we should start laughing now, yes?  Because if not, we're in trouble.