Republican-controlled states refuse to test sewage sludge for PFAs before spreading it on farmland.

More Perfect Union accuses Florida Republicans, starting from Governor Dementis, of handing control of the state's electric utility into the hands of cronies who allow it to keep raising prices. That was in exchange for the company's secretly funding sound-alike candidates, whose names would confuse voters so as to defeat some Democratic legislators.

I don't know whether any of this is illegal, but it clearly shows Dementis's real contempt towards the residents of Florida, and his country.

Representative Bowers, a Republican and currently speaker of the Arizona state house of representatives, denounced the trumpery of most Republican candidates there as "fascism".

Prominent lawyers rip the "special master" decision to shreds and explain its partisan contempt for established law.

Boys and men today face a difficult situation — the flip side of the difficult situation that girls and women face. Men can no longer win respect by being the "bread winner" for a wife, not only because that role is no longer respected, but because most jobs don't pay enough to enable a worker to support anyone else.

It is hard for me to empathize with people who want to be the "bread winner", since I was repelled by that idea of the male role ever since I learned about it. I yearned for a relationship of love, not for one of being valued only for bringing in money.

But this problem is real enough for those in it, and the US right wing has taken advantage of this to recruit fanatics.