The state of the culture

I can't decide if this is more funny or more sad:

Our love affair with the automobile seems to be cooling a little, and some people are freaking out:

A little bit of journalistic hyperbole here:

A Cheney family feud erupted on Facebook after Liz Cheney reiterated her opposition to same-sex marriage in an interview with "Fox News Sunday" -- despite her sister Mary Cheney, who is gay, having recently married her longtime partner. 

In the new book, "The Battle Over Marriage: Gay Rights Activism Through the Media," Leigh Moscowitz  chronicles the brilliant public relations campaign that completely turned around public attitudes in slightly less than 25 years. The gay community won hearts and minds by a strategy of convincing Americans that "we're just like you." But while winning the gay marriage debate, she says, the gay community lost something, too:

PC on steroids:

Not exactly losing with grace and dignity:

There was little chance of defeat, when Aledo’s undefeated Bearcats faced Fort Worth’s Western Hills on the football field Friday.

I honestly didn't think I'd see this in my lifetime:

Yeah, well, it might be "legal," but we'd better not catch you using it:

Oh, for God's sake:

TOWAMENCIN TWP., Pa. - October 9, 2013 (WPVI) -- A decision to cancel Halloween celebrations at an elementary school in Montgomery County is stirring controversy among some parents.

Parents received a letter Tuesday from the principal at Inglewood Elementary School.

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For the "would be funny if it weren't scary" file:

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The man drew the gun several times on the crowded San Francisco commuter train, with surveillance video showing him pointing it across the aisle without anyone noticing and then putting it back against his side, according to authorities.