Idiot du Jour

Marjorie Taylor Greene is perhaps not as fundamentally stupid as Louie Gohmert or Candace OWens, but she's certainly in the running. From Joe.My.God.:

“They just want you to think that all of a sudden the entire population is steadily turning gay or turning trans. Just generation, generation. Probably in about four or five generations, no one will be straight anymore. Everyone will be either gay or trans or non-conforming or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different options there are.” – Noted sociologist Marjorie “Peach Tree Dish” Greene, speaking on her MTG Live podcast.

And yet straight people keephaving straight babies. Go figure.

Today's Must Read

I ran across this post a day or two ago at Crooks and Liars. It's a good take on the right-wing reaction to the Uvalde school massacre.

The conspiracist far right has a knack for taking horrifying tragedies and somehow making everything worse, from Alex Jones claiming that the Sandy Hook and Las Vegas massacres were “false flags” to Tucker Carlson promoting white-nationalist theories that fueled the recent mass killing in Buffalo. Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 people—19 of them schoolchildren—dead is proving yet another opportunity for them to be, yet again, some of the worst human beings on the planet.

Predictably, the worst of the lot were the white-nationalist-friendly trolls at the message board 4chan, who trotted out photos of a Hispanic transgender woman who they claimed was the shooter—a claim that was promptly debunked on Reddit, where the person whose photos were being used chimed in and denounced the claims as utterly and obviously bogus, since she didn’t even live in Texas and couldn’t possibly be the shooter.

It goes into some detail. Read the whole thing.

What's New at Green Man Review

It's that time again, and lots of good stuff on offer:

Cirque du Soleil, Steeleye Span live, A history of anime, peanut butter chocolate cups, mystery, vampires, and medieval feasts; Alison Bechdel and other queer comix; R. Crumb and old time music on film; Ojibwe Pow Wow singing, Albion Band, Springsteen, Teddy Thompson and more music

So find yourself a nice place to relax on this lovely spring day (well, it is here), and dive in.

The SOTUS Leak

Here's Trey Crowder's take on the Supreme Court's plan to overturn Roe v. Wade:

What's New at Green Man Review

Yesterday's edition -- I kept forgetting it was Sunday:

A Folkmanis Piglet puppet, Chocolate to nibble on, Classic SF on Mars; Music from Big Foot County, Finnish music, classical music, Ian Anderson and other music; Led Zep and Hawaiian cowboys on film; YA fantasy horror

Go ahead and dive in -- as you can see, there's lots there.