Warner Bros is stripping Elmer Fudd of his rifle in a new Looney Tunes cartoon series on HBO Max, handicapping the grumpy hunter as he continues his decades-long pursuit of the wise-cracking Bugs Bunny, according to reports. It just got a lot harder to hunt wascally wabbits. Washington state bans assault weapons as governor says 'no one needs an AR-15'ĭown under debacle: US woman busted in Australia after gold-plated gun found in luggage White House fails to mention Texas shooting fugitive is an illegal immigrant The views and opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Chicago Sun-Times or any of its affiliates.Michigan school district bans all backpacks over gun concerns The Sun-Times welcomes letters to the editor and op-eds. Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of “The Hunting of the President.” Couldn’t happen to a more deserving party. This is the fight that Republican bluenoses are destined to lose.
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People want the freedom to decide when and how to form families.” Many Republicans appear to have forgotten what New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen correctly calls “the commonest sense of all: Most people do not want the government making personal decisions for them. Donald Trump’s just about the last person in America who can tell you anything worth hearing about that, and Ron DeSantis can’t be far behind. The only meaningful question is how to live with its demands. You see, people don’t choose their sexuality it chooses them. Certainly nothing I learned in a library. How fortunate that the individual in that little shirtwaist dress also turned out to be such a high-quality person.īut it was all instinct there at the start. It felt more like gravity than anything I’d freely chosen, and all these years later, it still does. I was attracted to my wife from across a crowded room before I knew her name. Me, I’ve always been one of the lucky ones, in the sense that my personal proclivities have made life easier than it otherwise might have been. Not if we want to retain our constitutional liberties, that is. One needn’t be happy about every aspect of contemporary sexual mores to recognize that there’s not a whole lot the government can do about them. It’s the sheer futility of this latter-day puritanism that’s most remarkable.
No, Fudd’s not a Disney character, but how long before people start laughing?īut I digress. The angrier he acts, the more ridiculous DeSantis looks: a furious little fellow with a chip on his shoulder, like Elmer Fudd. The MAGA faithful either don’t notice or don’t care.Ĭall it the Trump Paradox: The more whoppers he emits, the more MAGA followers see him as a truth-teller, unafraid to speak his mind.ĭeSantis, meanwhile, keeps doubling down on authoritarian gestures: converting a 15-week abortion ban to a six-week ban while engaging in a public feud with the state’s largest employer over LGBTQ issues.
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The former president’s supporters basically see him as a kind of TV comic, free to pop off and to contradict himself at will. Did anybody? And this was long before the invention of iPhones.ĭeSantis appears to be trying to out-crazy Donald Trump, which simply cannot be done. Does anybody really think that public school librarians are leading children into sin? Even during my long-ago youth, I certainly never read anything bawdy that I found at the library. This is not the way Americans think when they think about freedom.
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