{"id":7163,"date":"2012-03-09T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=7163"},"modified":"2012-03-09T14:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:06:55","slug":"the-global-war-against-women-tex-mex-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=7163","title":{"rendered":"The Global War Against Women: Tex-Mex tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[The presidential race] [i]s not as much fun without [Rick Perry]. At Rancho Perry, every day was Oopsday. Along the trail, he forgot how many Justices the Supreme Court has (eight is not enough); forgot the name of one of them (Sonia Sotomayor); placed the American Revolution in the sixteenth century; identified the voting age (fixed at eighteen four decades ago by constitutional amendment) as twenty-one; and suggested that the chairman of the Federal Reserve is a traitor, that Turkey (A NATO ally of sixty years’ standing) is governed by Islamic terrorists, and that Social Security is not only a Ponzi scheme but also a criminal enterprise, a monstrous lie, and unconstitutional. And there’s this whopper, from his farewell speech: “As a former Air Force pilot, I don’t get confused.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I owe the above to the estimable Hendrik Hertzberg<\/a>, writing in the January 30, 2012 New Yorker<\/em>. And yes, I am a little behind in my New Yorker<\/em> reading but how timely is my untimeliness! Because yesterday’s New York Times<\/em> let us know what Perry and his good ‘ol white boy legislature have been up to since he returned to his home state of Texas: Women in Texas Losing Options for Health Care.<\/a><\/p>\n

I then noticed a Times<\/em> International section piece, on City Hall Still a Reach For Women in Mexico.<\/a><\/p>\n

These two articles sent me rummaging through my 1939 Columbia Encyclopedia to remind myself that Texas was until the 1830s part of Mexico. Which it hasn’t been for a while, but gee, given the similar attitude Texan and Mexican males share in their treatment of women, not to mention their gun lust, maybe we should insist that Texas be re-united with Mexico.<\/p>\n

I might even fight a war for that. My war cheer: “Take them back! Take them back!” It’s got a rhythm, you have to admit.<\/p>\n

Think of all the problems this would solve. And the rest of us could all stop remembering the bloody Alamo and its crazy glorification of war and death.<\/p>\n

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