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The amazing thing about this is that it was made six years ago - when it was funny enough to imagine liberals trying to PC up the Dukes but still not to the point where you could actually imagine a major cable network pulling it because it isn't. Hats off to Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy for actually having the prescience to see this coming.
In case you're wondering just how powerful a wave of social media-driven hysteria can get, TV Land has your answer. This all started, of course, when that Confederate flag walked into a church in Charleston and shot those nine people. That's why you can no longer watch the Duke boys, Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltraine and Boss Hogg.
Given the nature of the discussion following the gay marriage ruling last week, one thing that's clear to me as a Christian who opposes gay marriage is that very few secular people - and sadly, by no means all Christians - really understand why Christians take the position we do.
That's why there is so much being said that doesn't really reflect what Christians think. Some say we hate or we judge. Others say we are against love. Some think we're threatened by homosexuals. Some think we object too vociferously because we secretly want to join their ranks. Some even claim we don't think God loves gay people.
It's not Barack Obama's style to win a victory with any sort of humility, you understand. That's not in his makeup. And there's really little point in mentioning that he was "opposed" to gay marriage as recently as 2012 when he announced his big evolution on the issue, because everyone knows he wasn't really opposed at all. He pretended to be until he sensed correctly that the politics of the country were changing and it was OK to admit he was for it - which he had been all along.
Anyway, if you're a Christian who is grieved by this ruling and you'd like to think the president would greet the ruling with some level of dignity that would reflect a level of respect for differing views on the issue . . . sorry:
I sometimes think it's not fair that I'm a Detroiter. Not fair to the rest of you, that is. Oh sure, we have the shootings, the bankruptcy, the corruption . . . but we also have the pleasure of enjoying Miguel Cabrera on a daily basis. Not only is he the most amazing hitter I've ever seen - probably the best hitter in Tigers history with all due respect to Messrs. Cobb, Greenberg, Kaline and Trammell - but he's also an amazingly joyful human being.
Honestly, if you ever believed the nonsense that marijuana was "medicine," you probably don't have the brain capacity to process the information I'm about to give you. Then again, there's dumb and there's willfully delusional. You can have the ability to know better, but choose to embrace nonsense anyway because you want so desperately to get high.
I'd say that still makes you an idiot. Just that you're an idiot by choice.
At any rate, you know that "medical" marijuana was sold as something desperately needed by the old and the sick suffering from cataracts and glaucoma. In reality, most of the cards approved by doctors go to 25-year-old dumbasses who claim to be suffering from "chronic pain" and "headaches." The doctors know it's a scam too, but they don't care. They figure the public is sufficiently sold on this scam, and many of them probably like to get high too.
