Let us count the ways:
- Pope Francis' encyclical on climate change, "Laudato Si'", was the clearest statement yet to the world's 1.2 billon Catholics that right wing denial of climate change was harming the planet in a major, immoral way.
- The Supreme Court's 6 to 3 decision in King v. Burwell effectively terminated serious legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act (not that there won't be frivolous attempts by Congressional Rethugs to abolish "Obamacare" and take away health care for millions).
- Another landmark decision by the Supreme Court established the right of same sex couples to marry in every State, a decision that is already causing resistance among red state yahoos and calls for a Constitutional amendment by the likes of holy roller Mike "Huckster" Huckabee.
- In the wake of the Charleston massacre, the Confederate "battle flag" is still flying over many public places in the south -- including the grounds of the South Carolina capitol -- but a widespread movement to ban the symbol of racism and treason has started. This should be a no brainer except for the most hardened racists, who are likely responsible for a rash of black church burnings throughout the South.
- Wingnuts may not realize it yet, but the entry of Gov. Piyush "Bobby" Jindal and Gov. Chris "Krispykreme" Christie into the crowded clown car of the Republican race for the Presidency will only provide laughs for the rest of us as they stumble on. They're so unpopular in their own states of Louisiana and New Jersey respectively that they'd lose in a vote against the President. Speaking of clowns, voice of the Republican id Donald "Rump" Trump's vicious comments about Mexicans should help sink his Party's chances with Latinos in 2016.
- Finally, a bit of schadenfreude icing was applied to June when grifter-in-training Bristol Palin announced her second out of wedlock pregnancy, which she initially called a "huge disappointment" to her family, but later claimed was "planned." Moral: people lecturing others and quoting the Bible about "virtue" should look in a mirror first.
