For the first time in my life, the lead harpy of modern comedy, Amy Schumer made me laugh.  I caught this headline over at MSN.com.

Dozens Walk Out After Amy Schumer Trashes Trump During Comedy Show

Yep, Amy Schumer’s act finally caught up with her.  She was doing a show when she took a break from the ceaseless cackling about her vagina (seriously, the is the punchline of most of her jokes – thank you third wave feminism for making the word “vagina” a punchline) to go on an anti-Trump and anti-Gun screed.

On Sunday night, about 200 people walked out of Amy Schumer’s show at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, after she called Donald Trump, among other things, an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake-college-starting monster.” It’s unclear if the audience had never heard Schumer’s comedy before, or if they’d just completely had it with politics.

I know MSM is run by a bunch of liberals because in no other universe is referring to a presidential candidate as an “orange, sexual-assaulting, fake-college-starting monster” a joke.

Feeling that she hadn’t made it clear how much she loathes people on the other side of the aisle, she decided to go for broke and completely ruin her show.

She made it clear she doesn’t understand how people can support Trump. At one point she asked for a Trump supporter — preferably one with sleeves, she she told security personnel — to join her up on stage to explain their enthusiasm for Trump. One fellow did, but he said he was voted for Trump mainly because doesn’t trust Clinton. When some audience members booed, the actor and comedian invited them to leave and also asked security to remove anyone booing.

That’s right sweetheart.  Insult your audience, but not in an insult comedy way, pick a fight with them, and then throw people out for booing the fact that they paid to see a stand-up routine and not the worlds worst episode of Hardball.

This is what happens when a celebrity becomes more famous for their political rantings than art form.  They throw their political rantings out non stop, the perfect storm of smug self righteousness and ignorance.

The only thing about this story that I find unbelievable is that Amy Schumer drew a crowd of 20,000 people.  I can’t believe that there are 20,000 people that think she is funny.

As I grow older, I realize just how brilliant and prophetic South Park was.  They predicted this comedy routine about 10 years ago.  My only hope is that she continues this type of insufferable behavior until her career implodes and the only person that are willing to host Amy Schumer at an event is Shannon Watts.  Then we’ll never have to hear from her again.

Dear sweet Jesus, Everytown… please, for the love of everything holy, stop making me defend Donald Trump.  Please.  I beg you.

The incorrigible idiots over at Evertown are like a dog with a bone about Trump’s bus ride hot mic statement.

And

No.

I don’t want to subject my readers to the horrors of having to listen to Trump more than they have to, so let’s go to the transcript of what he said:

Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Bush: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

I really, really, really, don’t want to defend Trump’s statement.  I really don’t.  It’s the kind of asshole dude-bro statement that you’d expect a rich celebrity to make as evidence of just how famous he is, right after telling you how he was invited to buy a Ferrari.

This sophomorically macho chest thumping may win you the Biggest Douche in the Universe Award but it is not in anywhere in the same ballpark as murdering women.

Please, Everytown and the other Bloombergian tinpot dictator wannabes, stop trying to equate the two.  I can imagine Trump trying to get into bed with some other guy’s wife.  I can’t imagine him shooting some other guy’s wife.

I feel terrible for what happened to Ms. Brusk.  But her situation with her husband has nothing to do with Trump.

My ex-husband believed that if he couldn’t have me, no one should. It’s that ownership of women — of our bodies, our minds — that ties directly back to Trump’s lewd comments and a culture of misogyny.

No.   A narcissistic celebrity (redundant) saying that women would let him do what he wanted to them is not anything like “if I can’t have you, no one can, now you’re gonna die.”

Richard Martinez has become the next Ladd Everitt, an anti-gun folk hero, after his son was murdered in the Isla Vista killings.  I feel terrible for Mr. Martinez, I can’t imagine losing my son.  But again, he’s way off base.

Christopher Martinez was killed by Elliot Rodger.  Rodger was a loser who explained the motivation for his killings in his manifesto.

I’m 22 years old and I’m still a virgin. I’ve never even kissed a girl. I’ve been through college for two and a half years, more than that actually, and I’m still a virgin. It has been very torturous. College is the time when everyone experiences those things such as sex and fun and pleasure. Within those years, I’ve had to rot in loneliness. It’s not fair. You girls have never been attracted to me. I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it. It’s an injustice, a crime, because… I don’t know what you don’t see in me. I’m the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman.

This is exactly the opposite of Trump.  This racist little shit went on a rampage because no women  would let him touch her …. yeah, don’t make me say it.

Trump’s thin skin, immature narcissism manifests itself as extreme braggadocio, not mass murdering rampage.

The Everytown peanut gallery comments were even worse.

Here we go with the triggering.  Not just did Trump commit the mortal sin of being Triggering, he said something bad.  It’s never “‘just’ talk” words are violence.  Trump said p***y and in an instant millions of men slapped their wives.  Its like a Pavlovian response.  The first time I heard Trump’s comment on CNN, something went off in my brain and I just had to get my rape on.  No, wait, I didn’t.  I thought it was some awful dude-bro swagger.

Yep, gun-lovers are brutes.  Can’t argue with that logic.  Only anti-gun activists are peaceful people who want nothing more that to riot and burn sing kumbaya.  I guess Judith Squires didn’t get the message about dehumanizing language from Jessica Jones.  I’m feeling pretty triggered being called a brute.  That’s not nice.

Michael Kaczkowski upped the ante by going full retard.  Good to know that he thinks the men that took up arms against the Nazis were a bunch of mentally ill degenerates.  I think his comment shows either a complete lack of self awareness or absolute projection.  Either way, he’s being ableist and I’m triggered.

Look, I get it.  Trump is bloviating twat.  What he said was gross.  It wasn’t a call for violence against women.  It didn’t advocate for beating or shooting women.  In fact, if you watch the video, as soon as he’s done saying this crap and he gets off the bus, he gives the woman in purple a one arm friend hug and a cheek kiss and says his wife said that was OK.  He’s a hypocrite.  Big talk on the bus and a total wimp when he gets off of it.  That’s not a wife beater.  That’s a dude-bro.

So, please, Everytown.  Stop pushing this “Trump = violence against women” act.  It’s inaccurate, and you made me write an entire post defending him.

I hate you all the more for that.

A tad over two years ago, the Village Voice published a story about the abuse of like laws in New York City.  The abuse of knife laws was by the NYPD, and the NYPD deliberately misapplied an anti-gravity knife law to arrest people on weapons charges.

According to the vast majority of police departments and district attorneys in New York State — not to mention knife manufacturers, labor unions, and almost everyone else who knows a thing about knives — what Neal was carrying was a perfectly legal folding knife. When gravity knives were banned under New York State law in the 1950s, the legislature actually had a very specific style of weapon in mind — a foot-long terror that bears no resemblance to a knife like the one Neal had. True gravity knives, for all intents and purposes, have been extinct for the better part of a century; today they’re relegated mostly to the antiques section on eBay.

Nonetheless, under the department’s unique interpretation of Penal Code 265.01, almost every pocketknife on the market today can be considered a gravity knife. It’s as if authorities in New York City were using an antiquated law against flintlock muskets to prosecute BB-gun owners.

The NYPD uses what they call the “wrist flick” method to determine if a knife is a gravity knife.  This is the NYPD wrist flick:

Flicking the knife wildly, multiple times, finally getting it to open; this method will get every lock back knife made classified as an illegal gravity knife.

And they know it.

The NYPD has been using the gravity knife ban to boost their arrest numbers by targeting people with ordinary pocket knives, generally picking them out by the telltale pocket clip.

The NYPD was deliberately abusing the law to arrest innocent people to make themselves look better on paper rather than stopping real crimes…  I’m shocked.

Here is where this story takes a turn for the bizarre.

The NYPD bit off more than it can chew this time.  As it turns out, the overwhelming majority of people that were getting arrested for gravity knife violations for ordinary pocket knives were law abiding, working class people.

From the NYT:

But the modern knives sold in countless stores bear little resemblance to the knives that were the original subjects of the ban. Many people, including carpenters, construction workers and stagehands, have no idea that their knives can be made to open with a flick of a wrist — a skill many New York police officers have developed.

It’s not just laborers and construction workers that were feeling the pinch, but people who do the manual work in NYC’s theater and entertainment industry.

From the Village Voice:

Others had noticed too. Daniel Gilloon, a representative with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, a trade union, says arrests of its members have become so routine that the leadership had to get involved. Now, several times a month, IATSE’s president sits down to send form letters to local D.A.s, on the behalf of this or that member, explaining what the knife is for. In his industry, Gilloon adds, pocketknives aren’t just common but, in fact, mandatory equipment. Stagehands who show up without a knife can actually be disciplined for coming to work unprepared. “It happens all the time,” he says of the arrests

The people targeted by the NYPD for gravity knife violations were usually minorities – 86% of the time, arrestees were black.

By targeting working class minorities for undue arrest, the NYPD kicked the liberal hornets nest.  Liberal groups and organisations that started pushing for an end to the abuse of NY’s knife laws by the NYPD and making NYC safe for pocketknife EDC include:

The Village Voice (who broke the story)

Think Progress

The New York Times editors

The NAACP

The NYCLU (NY Civil Liberties Union – same link as above)

Brooklyn Defender Services (the Brooklyn public defender)

The Legal Aid Society 

Just about any time the police start abusing their power, the Libertarians show up.  Yes some are goofy, but the CATO Institute is a powerful DC think tank, and they have wandered into the fray.

The slightly right of center Wall Street Journal has come out against NYC’s gravity knife law abuse.

It’s no secret in the gun community that the Venn Diagram of gun people and knife people is a perfect circle.  We feel an attack on knife rights as keenly as we do an attack on gun rights, because they generally come from the same source.  I doubt that there is anybody out there with a CCW permit that didn’t start by carrying a pocket knife.  Knives are the gateway drug for guns.

So without a doubt, the NRA had to chime in on this.

I am glad that they did.  I’ve always wished that the NRA would use its considerable power as a lobbying organization to fight for knife rights.  Yes, the Knife Rights Foundation exists, but it is rather new and doesn’t have the gravitas that the NRA does.

Left, Right, and Center have come out against the NYPD’s abuse of gravity knife laws and have demanded some sort of legislative change to correct this situation.

So who is standing in the way.  At the top, Mayor Bill de Blasio.  Let me lay down a little bit of truth:

When the NY Times, NAACP, ACLU, WSJ, and NRA all come together to hold hands on something and agree that you are being tyrannical asshole, you know you screwed up.

It is hard to be so wrong about something that that the the NY Times, NAACP, ACLU, WSJ, and NRA are simultaneously right in calling you out on it, but de Blasio managed to be that wrong.

Granted, de Blasio legalized peeing and drinking in the streets and the other quality of life crimes that Mayor Giuliani cracked down on, cleaning up NYC.

Under de Blasio, it is totally legal for me to take a dump in a doorway and wash my ass in a fountain, but my Spyderco Delica will get me thrown in jail.

This guy is wrong on everything.

Who else?

Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, who took to the NY Daily News with this histrionic OpEd.

I dispute the argument of the gravity-knife-rights advocates that it is largely tradespeople and other legitimate knife users who carry these blades and who are being arrested by overzealous police officers. Knives of this type, which can be opened very quickly, are self evidently designed to be weapons — and most of the people who carry them apparently do so for that general purpose.

There are many alternative cutting instruments for tradespeople, including the widely used utility knife with a half-inch blade and the standard folding knife that requires that requires manual blade manipulation and some pressure to open.

Why would anyone need a rapidly deployable four-inch blade? Among the historical reasons for self-opening knives include hand-to-hand military combat and quick-action parachute disengagement. Do the members of the state legislature have good reasons to carry such knives? Do the readers of this column?

Oh look… the head of the organization that got caught red handed abusing a law using to unjustifiably arrest tradesmen is telling them what tools they should be using.  Not to mention that the claim that a folding knife is a traditional weapon for military hand-to-hand combat.  I guess William Fairbairn and Eric Sykes wasted their time and should have been handing out pocket knifes to the SAS.  Beyond that, I doubt that most people who carry a pocket knife do so with malice aforethought.  I sure don’t.  Which is why, as a reader of his column, I can answer his question:

I have countless reasons to carry a one handed folder.  Opening every sort of industrial grade plastic packaging that every little item comes in now days.  Fingernails.  Cutting up fast food into bite size pieces for the toddler so he doesn’t choke.  Emergencies.  Lastly,  because f**k you , that’s why.

Anybody else?

How about New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.  His OpEd states:

We provided a memorandum to the Legislature proposing amendments to the law in fairness to those who carry gravity knives for bona fide trade or business reasons.  That memorandum sets forth reasonable ways to address the legitimate concerns of tradespeople without compromising public safety.

Except, if the city of NYC wasn’t busy busting tradesmen for their pocket knives why would they be paying out multiple settlements for wrongful arrest, NBC wouldn’t be doing stories on TV about arrested electricians, and judges wouldn’t be tossing gravity knife convictions.

So the worst mayor NYC has ever had, his top cop, and the guy that lies in court on their behalf are trying to stand up to the most diverse group of political interests ever that has come together on a single issue.

The state legislature has pushed forward with a reform to NY’s gravity knife laws to legalize regular pocket knives.  De Blasio protested it because statists got to state and tyrants got to tyrant.  Unfortunately it now falls on the desk of “I don’t know s**t bout guns, but I’m going to ban them during an abuse of the emergency act” Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Asking a guy who abuses the law to ban guns to pass a bill that stops the NYPD from abusing the law that bans knives seems like a long shot.

Remember people, when you elect a tyrant, there is no end to their tyranny.  They will control whatever they can, not because it is good or bad, but because they desire the control.  Nothing is safe.  You want to control the guns and you get people who arrest handymen for their tools.

All I can say is pray for the good people of NYC.  Maybe a few will come away from this with their eyes a little more open.

I was watching some knife reviews on the YouTube when I got hit by an ad I couldn’t skip.  It is for a new sitcom called American Housewife.

This is the promo that I saw:

I was instantly boiling with hate.  Look at that.  In what universe does three kids coming into the master to wake up mom not wake up dad?  I what universe does mom at some point not wake up dad for help?  Then dad comes down stairs having just enjoyed his “nine hours” while mom obviously did not get a full night, and look at the look at absolute contempt on mom’s face for her husband for his night’s sleep.

That face is pure hate for her husband.  Hate.  Why?  Because she didn’t wake up her husband to ask him for help.

Typical sitcom anti-dad bit.  How bad could this show be really?  Worse than you could possibly imaging.  Here’s the full promo:

She screwed up with her son?  Why?  Because he reads Robb Report?  Because he understands economics?  Because he wants to go to business school, which requires good grades and hard work, and will provide him with a chance at a good career?  Because he’s a budding Republican?   Just soak in the look of hate she gives her son because he has the audacity to have financial goals and wants to work hard to achieve them.

She hates her rich neighbors and  their lifestyles with big houses and boats.  She moved to the neighborhood because it has a great public school for her daughter.  I guess it never occurred to her that it is her rich neighbors and big, expensive houses that pay the extremely high property taxes (both the state and the actual city of Westport) that pay for the fancy public school that is helping her daughter.

Because irony isn’t dead, the promo for the YouTube trailer for American Housewife was a promo for American Housewife.  This is the promo for the promo:

This is a scene from when she is dropping her youngest off at school.  She hates the other moms.  That face is full of hate.  It is obvious that the elementary age children of those moms are a first kid, while her’s is the last kid.  That’s what, a 10 year age gap, at a minimum.  I looked up the actress who played the mom and she’s only 35, which floored me, she looks like – and acts like – she’s 45 (the actor that plays her husband is 49 so it’s not unreasonable to guess that she’s in her 40’s).  The actress who plays her eldest is 14, so mom was 21 when she had her first.  So when mom quips “who thinks a mother of three should have an ass like a 19 year old?” the answer is, nobody, of course, but when you have your first at 21, it’s not a stretch.

Other people have noted that this show seems to make a lot of fat jokes.  The NY Times did a better break down, though they are more tolerant than I.

Katie has contempt for all those well-toned bodies in Westport. To her, fitness equals shallowness and obsession with wealth. Counter one set of stereotypes by promoting another? That might work in more skilled hands, but here it just makes for sour, spiteful comedy.

At least Katie is an equal-opportunity hater. No one escapes her disdain, including her children, especially the two older ones (Meg Donnelly and Daniel DiMaggio), who she feels are in danger of being converted to Westportian elitism…It’s hard to embrace Katie as a heroine for the powerless when she’s so self-absorbed.

They didn’t notice the anti-husband, anti-family, or anti-conservative messages in the show.  It’s so much worse than just having a fat problem.  It has a problem with everything.  This show is about a woman that hates everything and everyone in her life, including her husband, children, and self.  Her life is a seething mass of envy.  She is a horrible person who deserves no sympathy.

This show is so un-funny that it poisoned the humor of the great Diedrich Bader.  This show is a crime against humor.  This show is poison.  The creators and writers of this show should be taken to the Hague and charged with crimes against humanity.

After my last post on Cocks Not Glocks, I found myself scrolling through the Facebook page of the Cocks Not Glocks founder Jessica Jin.

Her page is where reason and discourse go to die.  Jessica Jin is a Social Justice Warrior.  Those who fight for the advancement of SocJus do so knowing that they have no obligation to be rational.  In fact, according to the most SocJus website ever, rational discourse is racist and used to oppress minorities.  Of course being rational doesn’t get you a full coverage article in Cosmo and acknowledgment on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show when you are a 25 year old music major.

Ms. Jin’s anti-gun methodology is not just an attack on gun rights.  It is an attack on the fabric of this nation.  No, that is not an understatement.  She claims to “fight the absurd with the absurd.”  However concealed carry is not absurd.  Right now all 50 states and Washington DC have some form of concealed carry.  Only nine states and DC are may issue.  There are approximately 14.5 million CCW permit holders in the US, almost 5% of the population.  Beyond numbers, there are real social and Constitutional issues at play.  How can the “right to keep and bear arms” be fully realized if one cannot bear arms in public?  What is the effect of CCW on crime statistics, domestic terrorism, etc?

Jin’s answer to all of this: big rubber penis!

This response to a serious issue is asinine.  Imagine if were used in any other political topic:

Immigration reform, and border security – big rubber penis!

Financial sector reform and banking regulations – big rubber penis!

Taxation, healthcare, and the relationship to unemployment and labor force participation – BIG RUBBER PENIS!!!

In this case, the side that wins is not the side that makes the best points or rational arguments, but the side that is the most obnoxious and berating.  It is the side that brings the most clowns.

This type of spectacle only serves to worsen the political dialog in this country.  It doesn’t add anything productive to the conversation, and the more the media focuses on it, the worse it makes everything.  With Jin, anti-gun buffoonery may be her metier, but she does not hold back the distasteful ridiculousness when it comes to conservatives or organizations on the other side of the aisle.  Here is Jin homesteading scatological domain names to associate them with people and groups she doesn’t like.

The epitome of SJW class.

It is in her anti-gun and anti-concealed carry activities that her ignorance and hate congeal into a unpalatable aspic of ugliness.

The military clouded with business to come up with a Frankenstein [monster] in the form of the AR-15, which is like selling rat poison in baby food jars?  And of course, to her, he people buying these guns are “n00bs with rage issues,” not to mention her negative assessment of the firearms industry and the people that work in it.  Virtually nothing in what she said about how the gun industry works in her rant was accurate, but that doesn’t stop her from vomiting up this rant to the accolades of her followers, who regard her as an expert in this subject because big rubber penis.

When someone confronts her with something approaching a modicum of reason, questioning big rubber penis as an argument*, she falls back on the classic crybully tactic of claiming victimhood from mansplaining.  When called out on her irrational and obscene argument, she fires back with an irrational and sexist argument.

*”Big rubber penis” I must concede, is a better irrational justification than “because [current year]”

She does this multiple times.  She never explains how big rubber penis is supposed to work.  How it is supposed to change hearts and minds.  If you say it won’t and that her tactics are sophomoric, you are a sexist who assaulted her with your mansplaining.  Apparently calling someone out on their bullshit argument is oppression if the bullshitter is a woman.

The tragedy that makes this snowball out of control is that she lives in an echo chamber, as all SJWs do.  Her friends and followers are just as bad.  Here she is saying that she doesn’t have the time to explain why her irrational argument is valid, so shut up.  This is of course the flip side to “google it” or “look it up” in SJW speak when asked for evidence.  They have none and can’t explain it but your are the racist/sexist/-phobe for not accepting it at face value.

Her follower then chimes in with the ever unhelpful “gun = small penis” argument, doubling down on the stupid.  I do have to say, I like Andrew Dobbs response.  He’s and SJW too, but he had to call out the first SJW on body shaming.  I love to watch them eat each other.

Here Jin is arguing against gun control for being racists while arguing for gun control, because logic is not her strong suit.  It is completely backwards and she doesn’t get it.  Ladd Everitt does, which is beautiful.  Notice how he warns her to stay away from this line of argument, and uses America’s racist history as his justification.  He knows in his heart that it was Democrats who passed so many of these racist laws, and doesn’t want that gem to get pointed.

Lastly we have some good old fashioned mockery of gun owners.  It’s not that their position as any rational merit.  That a person with a valid CCW should be able to carry onto an open public college campus – that if their CCW is valid on one side of the street which is downtown Austin, it should be valid on the other side of the street which is UT Austin.  Nope, it’s that they are a bunch of poor gun lovers that can’t stand to leave their guns a home *tear*.

This is how political discourse in America dies.  When these types of people are celebrated in the media, given awards for action, and hailed as heroes.  Sure, their arguments have no merit.  They use ad hominem and accusations of bigotry as their only defense.  They make obscenity a virtue and reason a vice.

But… big rubber penis.

There is an old joke:

God contacts a reporter from the New York Time to tell him that God is going to bring about the apocalypse and to spread the word using the newspaper of record.  The next day, the NYT publishes the headline “World to End, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.”

Moms Demand Action posted this over at their Facebook Page.

First, never mind that according to the FBI, 77.4% of homicide victims are men.

According to Paula Mays Gap, it’s women who the NRA are sacrificing for their cause… which doesn’t make any sense.  The NRA has been trying to engage more women in shooting sports for years, and has created a number of programs to attract women to shooting.  Women are the fastest growing demographic of new shooters and are gaining ground in CCW with more and more ranges offering women’s only CCW courses.

So exactly what cause does the NRA have the requires sacrificing women?  This is an insane proposition.

And speaking of insane… when it comes our “peer nations” their stats don’t impress me much.  Our peer nations in Europe are facing a rape epidemic that boggles the mind.  European women are experiencing rape at a rate higher than the South Side of Chicago is experiencing shootings.  Yes, it’s that bad.  When Europe women defend themselves with aerosol hot-sauce, they get arrested for it.

Of course domestic violence is terrible.  Of course domestic abusers should be prohibited persons.  The Lautenberg Amendment makes convicted abusers prohibited persons.  I don’t want to come across as victim blaming, but perhaps the first step to saving more lives is to convince battered intimate partners to press charges and carry through with prosecution.  It is shown that up to 85% of abused women return to their abuser for financial reasons.  Perhaps the issue isn’t so much gun control as the need for other social programs so abused women can walk away and press charges, making these men prohibited persons.

But when it comes to comparing us to our peer nations, at least America doesn’t have an ongoing rape epidemic… yet.

Dear So-Called Conservatives,

I know it is difficult to say anything good about Obama, but on Monday, Obama singed into law the BABIES Act which mandates that baby changing tables be installed in men’s rooms in publicly accessible Federal buildings.  These are buildings like courthouses, national museums, visitors centers at National Parks, etc.

This is good law.  Stop complaining about it.  When I go to a conservative leaning website that covered the news and the comments are filled with people bashing this law, it is infuriating.

For get about the trans issue.  Forget about mandating LGBT this or that.  This law helps responsible dads be responsible.  As a dad, it is frustrating when I go somewhere with my son and there is no place to change him in a men’s room.

For all the whining about “nanny state” that I see, this is completely within the purview of Federal authority.  The Federal Government has the power to control building codes (which is what this is) in Federal buildings.  They do all the time for things like security.  This act does not affect private enterprise.

At a personal level, I do thing that changing tables should be mandatory in men’s and women’s rooms in businesses that have restrooms available to the public, e.g. restaurants, movie theaters, etc.   It should be part of building codes.  Florida mandates, for instance, how much bathroom space you have to have for your occupancy.  There is nothing worse than going into a restaurant to find out it has one bathroom and people have to wait in line.  Illinois was like that.  That is bad building codes.

Even if it is not mandatory by code, it is just good customer service.  If you have highchairs and a kids menu and no place for me to change a baby, I’m gonna get pissed fast.  Yes, I have changed my son on the table in a Starbucks because it didn’t have a changing table in the men’s room.  That was a fun argument with the manager.

If you watch a bill be signed into law that makes it just a tad easier for dads to take care of their children, and your first instinct is to attack it because “liberal nanny state trans-lovers can’t leave our bathrooms alone,”  you really need to STFU and deal with your daddy issues.  And if you own a restaurant and have high chairs and kids menu, and no changing tables in the men’s room, I hope some dad like me changes a poopy diaper on your table because you’re a pig headed asshole.

J.Kb. out!

Update:  The first comment to this post brought up nanny states.  Let’s discuss.  I am a conservative, not an anarchist.  I believe there are good laws and bad laws.  Much of what separates a good law from a bad law is a cost benefit analysis.  Let’s take building codes.  Yes, it can be expensive to build to code.  But many codes exist for the safety of the public.  How to wire a building to prevent electrical fires.  Good law.

Mandating how big a soda a restaurant can sell is bad law.  High cost in loss of revenue, low benefit as limiting a patron to only a 20 oz Coke is not going to change his risk of a heart attack.  Mandating the temperature at which a restaurant keeps its refrigerators and freezers, and what cleaners it has to use is good law.  Low relative cost to do maintenance on restaurant equipment, vs. the high cost of causing an e coli outbreak.  Restroom size and baby changing space is a matter of hygiene.  The cost of a changing table is not much, a few hundred at the most.  The benefit is preventing disease to the baby or to other patrons by having an over flowing diaper leak onto places were food is placed.  Good law.

My family owns a restaurant, I am familiar with building and health codes.  Some are expensive and seem to have little value.  Others are important.  I want my tables wiped down with bleach water changed regularly.  Keeps it clean.  A damp rag used for an entire shift is just a vector for infection.

I’m not telling individuals how much TP that have to use, that is stupid.  I am saying that a business, open to the public, should make reasonable accommodations to the needs of families, which includes changing tables in men’s and women’s restrooms.  That is an ordinance that passes the cost benefit analysis sniff test.

There is a huge reasonable area between nanny state and anarchy.  Don’t fall for the false dichotomy.