Yet Another American State, The Majority Of Whose Residents Can Go Fuck Themselves W/ A Splintered Broomstick

Quite possibly Irish-descended Larry Hogan (if that is his real name) Republican goobernator-elect from Maryland:

“I like to call them the Washington Redskins and I don’t think the government has any business whatsoever trying to tell a private enterprise what they should call themselves,” he told The Times. “There used to be a thing called freedom of speech. I also understand a lot of people are offended by the name but a lot of people are offended by Washington. Maybe they should drop that from the name.”

Here's some freedom of speech, you stupid Mick: Let's call the Orioles the Baltimore Bog-Monkeys. You won't have a problem w/ that will you?

Strike Two:

After an election night filled with far-right victories, it’s hard to dub any single winner the most extreme. But Michael Peroutka, newly elected to the Anne Arundel County Council in Maryland, would have to be in anyone’s top five. Peroutka is a radical Christian Reconstructionist and southern secessionist. He says “so-called civil rights laws” are not valid because “there is no such thing as a civil right.” He says promoting evolution “is an act of disloyalty to America.” He says of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, “The reason he hates God is because he thinks he is God.” He thinks gay people are out to “recruit your children” into their “deathstyle.”

Remarkably for someone who has just become an elected official in Maryland, Peroutka argues that since state legislators have passed laws like marriage equality that “violate God’s law,” the Maryland General Assembly is “no longer a valid legislative body” and none of the laws that it has passed are “legally valid and legally enforceable.”

Sorry Maryland, no third strike. (Hey, while we're at it, doesn't the name of your state violate the First Amendment?) Two are already one over the usually strictly-enforced WEB OF EVIL zero-tolerance policy.