Whiskey & Wry — transgender bathrooms

Every election year, the American citizenry is treated to its own national "Theater of the Absurd." Establishment politicians and media assiduously avoid fundamental questions on the key issues of our day — for instance, the wisdom and sustainability of a profligate, world-straddling empire, the threat to constitutional liberties posed by an ever-expansive surveillance/police state, or the impoverishing effects of corporate-state cronyism, central banking, and a suffocating legal and regulatory regime. Instead, we're presented with a host of 'distraction issues' that divert attention from a status quo supported by both major parties, while also creating and encouraging conflict between various factions. "Divide et impera." (Divide and...