If They're Not Taking Money From The Porn Industry To Serve Up This Crap I'll Eat My Hat Instead

Knew this was coming.

Salon-Alternet has up a story full to the brim with righteous indignation, rightfully condemning the moronic and idiotic and totally irresponsible jerk Senator Thom Tillis (R(big surprise huh?) -  NC) for advocating making the most basic of health regulations at restaurants optional and voluntary.

“I was having this discussion with someone, and we were at a Starbucks in my district, and we were talking about certain regulations where I felt like maybe you should allow businesses to opt out,” Tillis said, in remarks first reported by the District Sentinel. “Let an industry or business opt out as long as they indicate through proper disclosure, through advertising, through employment, literature, whatever else. There’s this level of regulations that maybe they’re on the books, but maybe you can make a market-based decision as to whether or not they should apply to you.”

When Tillis’ interlocutor noticed a Starbucks employee coming out of the restroom and inquired whether Tillis would apply his anti-regulation stance to employee hygiene, Tillis affirmed that he would.

“I don’t have any problem with Starbucks if they choose to opt out of this policy as long as they post a sign that says, ‘We don’t require our employees to wash their hands after they use the restroom,’” he said. “The market will take care of that.

My comment at Salon (I'm banned from pointing things like this out at Alternet) was

Yeah, the guy is a total asshole and jerk and has no business holding public office, a total and absolute disgrace for promoting practices that spread disease.  

But, about that "asshole" designation.  As this story is up one of the top stories on Salon-Altnernet (where I first saw it) promotes oral to anal contact, cutting out the middle - main (pardon my French) to promote the spread of disease directly. 

It could be pointed out that that story up on its Top Stories sidebar, “Ass is the new p*ssy”: Why anilingus is on the rise  is only one of two recent stories promoting eating shit on Salon's and Alternet's top stories within a week.

I do actually believe that some of the "journalists" who are pushing this kind of porn inspired sex practice in the general public are getting paid by the porn industry for, as it were, product insertion into the "news" stream to make it more acceptable in the general public.   There have been enough of those kinds of kickbacks in "journalism" for what looks like that to become familiar.

Update:  If you're going to ridicule me for believing that "journalists" take payoffs and other things to put stuff into their "journalism" then you should ridicule that while not having had a career in the pop-music side of "journalism" which is infamous for that kind of corruption.   "Rock criticism" could serve as the quintessential example of that kind of "journalism".