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Every day at the high school in OKC at which I had my “adventure”, I had lunch with a Biology, Physics, and Art teacher with the occasional visit from the Vocal teacher. Although I would have no difficulty following conversations, I was often lost when the Physics teacher would go off on something I assumed was interesting to Physicists. 

One night as I scanned through the cable channels I came across a PBS show on String Theory. I knew it existed and had heard it referred to a few times in movies and TV shows, but really had no idea what it was.

I settled down on  the couch and for one hour watched as String Theory was explained in the simplest of terms.

The next day at lunch I mentioned I had watched the show and when asked, recited the one thing I could remember which made as much sense to me as the other information I did not understand at all.

The reality is that I knew nothing about String Theory before the show and little of it after. I was just aware that it exists and that for those to whom it is relevant, whether I get it or not, is important to them.

I do not need to understand everything to confer validity on creation.

In my everyday life, both before that show and since, has continued on, devoid of my understanding and it has not influenced my life as far as I can tell, especially as I do not understand it, know what it does, nor how it influences the cosmos.

I just go about my life knowing that Physicist care and know all about it, but it does not have anything to do with my living my life. It plays no active or, perhaps, not even a passive role in any of my decisions, nor do I judge others as to whether or not it does theirs.

This, like other things, is something that exists but unless they directly affect me is of no concern 

I also do not question the personal lives or politics of the String Theory crowd, those who accept and understand String Theory, nor should I fear the knowledge they have that I do not, nor should I take any adverse actions against them because I lack that information or, worse, choose not to seek it when it is readily available because someone told me it was an evil belief that could harm children if taught in schools or is in books that are in pubic and school libraries.

Before I have anything to say on the matter, I should learn what there is to say.

Recently enjoying an afternoon libation one person present suddenly blurted out that she did not understand the whole Transgender thing which would have been the proper end to a correct statement. However, she went on to opine about that which she had just said she did not understand as if her admittedly lacking knowledge was not a limitation.

If she does not understand it, she first has to ask if it is necessary for her to, and whichever way it goes, how it affects her life.

If you don’t understand it, don’t act on it. 

Learn.

I am still not sure what String Theory is. I just know it’s a thing and I have done okay.

Perhaps things could be shaken up by pressing the idea that String Theory is being taught in public schools as early as third grade and this is making students uncomfortable and and thinking less of themselves.

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Back in the opening years of the Twenty-First Century when Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern was attempting to ban “Homosexually Themed” books from the state’s public libraries, when her movement began to lose steam and gain opposition she made a proposal to the legislature that public library systems that did not comply with her purge would lose state funding.

Salaries could not be paid, maintenance could not be kept up, utility bills would not get paid, and books would not be able to be purchased until the libraries complied and remove whatever books she chose should be removed.

It has been twenty years, but het mindset is making a comeback, but this time nationally.

In fall of 2022, because librarians refused to ban the book Gender Queer: A Memoir, a novel about the author’s journey with gender identity, voters rejected funding for the Patmos Library in Jamestown Charter Township, Michigan. 

The Missouri legislature recently passed a budget that included $4.5 million in funding for public libraries that it originally said a few months ago it was going to cut until the public spoke out in opposition. However, full funding for the state’s libraries is still not guaranteed. 

Under the existing Missouri law, images in school materials that could be considered sexually explicit, like depictions of genitals, are prohibited, and librarians and other school officials who violate the law by allowing students to have access to the material would be charged with a misdemeanor and could be fined $2,000 or sentenced to up to a year in jail.

Lawmakers in Llano County, Texas, rather than following a court order to return banned books to the shelves, considered closing public libraries this spring but reconsidered after community protests. 

In St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, the St. Tammany, Louiisianna, Library Control Board voted to keep five challenged books on the shelves of the town’s libraries, and US Representative Clay Higgins advocated for libraries to be replaced with “church-owned” alternatives. 

“Over time, American communities will build beautiful, church owned public-access libraries. I’m going to help these churches get funding. We will change the whole public library paradigm. The libraries regular Americans recall are gone. They’ve become liberal grooming centers.”

 After most staff quit due to threats against GLBT employees, a library in Vinton, Iowa, temporarily closed. Residents had complained that GLBT books were on display and there was not enough material on Trump. 

The Hamilton East Public Library’s board of trustees in Indiana recently ordered a quarter of a million dollar review of the library’s books to make sure they were “age appropriate” according to the board’s definition.

In March, the Sumner County, Tennessee, Library Board fired a library director after claims of “unkind treatment” toward evangelist Kirk Cameron at a conservative library event.

People are attacking books and we wonder why they burned the Library in Alexandria.

Knowledge is scary and it is easier not to learn and kill off the scary, that learn and find there was nothing actually scary about it.

Books being removed based on claims that they are obscene and pornographic, but there is no definition of those terms in the laws proposed and passed beyond it being up to individuals to complain according to their own opinions while the authorities are bound to act.

And Ben Franklin thought his libraries would be the source of knowledge.

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Society forced anyone who was not demonstrably heterosexual into the closet forcing them to find love when and when they could, not always in places we would prefer. Out of sight, out of mind was a comfortable stance, but now we are tired of the closets in which we have been forced to survive.

 The MAGA crowd is now obsessed with evaluating us for how we have handled the oppression and what support systems we have found to survive.

Just as with the Jews and their propensity to go into entertainment especially in areas of comedy and clowns get into their personas to overcome the sadness of oppression through humor, one such way to deal with the oppression and find joy in spite of it is Drag.

It is not a man becoming a woman, but a man becoming a particular woman, back story and all, who he becomes upon donning the outfit.

David Suchet, famous for playing Hercule Poirot, once explained in a documentary that throughout the time he sits in  the make-up chair he is David Suchet and acts accordingly in mannerisms and conversation. However, once the mustache is applied, he becomes Hercule Piorot and his mannerisms and speech pattern is that of Poirot until the mustache is removed at the end of the shooting for the day whereupon he once again becomes David Suchet.

It is not just a man throwing on any old dress and wig and mimicking stereotypical female behavior. It is Daniel Hillard specifically becoming Mrs. Doubtfire.

But now the crazies like Marjorie Taylor Greene have decided there is a darker, child threatening side to Drag Queens, except, not for all Drag Queens as Straight men doing it is purely for fun while Gay men doing it is purely to corrupt children.

I remember as a child watching the Gypsy Rose Lee Show, a daytime talk show, but, obviously, regardless how she became famous, that part of her act did not appear on television. Kids my age knew what her act was because in asking them why she was famous the parents of my friends and I would mumble something generic about the Old Howard in Boston and our fathers  might gratuitously throw in a reference to Chesty Morgan whose second husband was a National League baseball umpire.

While Drag shows held in adult bars, usually late at night and not when children would be around, do tend to get a little risque with relevant humor, but no more risque than shows in similar venues that cater to straight people or any group of people with identifying similar characteristic, while ones held for a general audience are toned down to match the audience and the venue.

And, as if it is necessary to increase the threat by ignoring some basic facts, public Drag shows are advertised way in advance so like anything in public, if it is something you would rather not deal with, you can skirt it like many of us do on a regular basis when just walking down a street we have to dodge the Bible people with the stands of pamphlets who accost us just going to the bank.

The Sanctifier of marriage, Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the recent divorce, finds herself having to and willingly strongly defends her boyfriend having dressed in drag on a television station broadcast into people’s homes with children present and without a disclaimer or warning of imminent adult content.

You see, when Brian Glenn was a morning television host of a news show and advertised “A Tuna Christmas” a series of comedies set in the fictional city of Tuna, Texas, that premiered in 1989, he joined the two actors who perform in Drag in Drag, proclaiming at one point, 

“I may keep the pantyhose on. It does feel kind of good actually,” 

implying to all those impressionable young viewers that not only was this acceptable but also had something about it that made it preferable.

However, now as a host on a conservative station, he believes, as he stated in a tweet, that it is wrong after Coivid for musicians who have talent to be unable to find work because of some Drag Queen, a “fat dude with fake boobs and a detachable penis” who apparently does not have talent, taking their jobs.

But it was okay for him to promote a Drag show on television and to not only join in by dressing up, but admitting he felt better dressed in panty hose and might just keep them on.

Greene has been busy making things up about Drag queens and then condemning them for het visions once writing,

 “Drag Queen story time/shows are not appropriate for children. A man dressed as a woman reading books to children is intentionally gender confusing, especially for young kids. Oftentimes the books being read tell young kids they can choose their gender, which is an unhealthy lie.”

When a bona fide Drag Queen performs, regardless of venue, purpose,or content, it is always wrong because it is Gay people doing it.

But when the man she was seeing around the time her husband sued for divorce after all her previous playng around, it is just fine.

“I’m literally lol’ing @brianglenntv dressed in drag for morning news in Dallas years ago reporting on an upcoming local theatre production and the morons over at Patriot Takes think this is an attack.”

“Brian loves the throwback and is reposting. The left is so stupid.”

When the straight people do Drag its all fun. 

Like the sanctity of marriage.

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Having ridden around town for over two years on an electric sit down scooter until it could no longer hold a charge and now riding around on its less expensive stand up model, I have come to know the potholes in the city as I have to keep a watchful eye for them because they are everywhere and they are deep.

Having noted the housing problem and hoping to add to the solutions, I think I have come up with a way where potholes, if not eliminated, could be utilized in solving the housing crisis.

Move the un-housed into them as they are spacious and seem to be permanent.

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