Post Alpaca Lips Posts

Photo by   Mateus Campos Felipe   on  Unsplash First published on Medium . . First, “sexism” stands in for   genderism   in title. There are also barely enough “V” words to choose from for writing the most cogent of alliterations, but I did my   ornery   best. . Second, I want to avoid giving away the plot, or accidentally spout spoilers. As you may have already noticed, I struggle to regulate my thoughts. Actually, I have gotten much better since 3rd grade. That said, sex is hard for many to talk about.   Right there; I did it again!   Anyway, our prudish sensibilities, and our lack of updated training in the language and understanding of sexuality, let alone gender, is legion, and a lesion on society. . Mom and dad should teach it. Surely don’t teach such important things in schools. The church should teach it. With the church guiding the lessons, mom and dad should teach it. (Maybe dad shouldn’t teach it?) What if a 3rd grader neighborhoo...

Photo by   Medena Rosa   on  Unsplash First published on Medium . .  We find ourselves in a precarious place; why are insurrectionist lemmings lining up in front of us? . There is nothing so ironic as a Second Amendment perpetrator traitor. . The Constitution be damned, yelled the Trumplican constitutional originalist. . States’ rights is so important to our nation that it trumps our Constitution. . I know that we are a Christian nation, and the church must be in the state, because of the unconstitutional religious test I just aced! . We are not a democracy because the founders wanted us to vote their conscience. . There is but one truth, because a conservative evangelical nationalist told me so. . I do not have a racist bone in my body; I whitewashed each of them yesterday. . The word democracy was never mentioned in the Constitution (sin of omission), neither was slavery (sin of commission). . America has nothing to apologize for; no wonder Christian Americans are ...

Photo by   Partha Narasimhan   on  Unsplash First published on Medium . Reaching beyond democracy cliches, and bypassing status quo no-change agents, or go slo-mo incrementalists, requires a decent understanding of our history, our entire electoral system, and human behavior. People want to make quick judgements about our system.   Democracy is mob rule , tyranny of the majority, blocked by the electoral college, gets thwarted by the Supreme Court, still relies on the filibuster, abuses the outdated two senator per state concept, etc.   However, these tired tropes, and narrow process- tinkerings   take up too much of our time, energy, and focus. . Elements like the filibuster and electoral college are artifacts of an old system. Unfortunately, and paradoxically, the Constitution is a   socially   fixed, and only grudgingly flexible document . Secondarily, the fixed or originalist faction is in a stronger position because it has nearly two and a h...