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The latest edition of the Front Porch program/podcast has a pretty random mix, ranging from sugary drinks to the transgender bathroom issue. However, listeners can benefit by my sage advice on the biblical hermeneutics of   dietary entomology and what happened in the 70s if you got caught smoking in the bathroom.

Interesting times. Unfortunately.

Sad to say, WV has been politically interesting lately. One thing we talked about on this week's Front Porch podcast is Hillary Clinton's apparent fall from favor since 2008. Gazette-Mail political columnist Phil Kabler relates some of the other weirdness here. And, while we're on the topic of interesting things, this lawsuit by labor groups against WV's new right to work for less law could be as well, especially in light of this week's state supreme court race.

If you read this blog regularly or listen to the Front Porch, you may recall this segment on transgender rights (and the loopy bathroom predator myth). Here's more coverage on that by the Gazette-Mail's Erin Beck.

A lively exchange

Regular readers of Goat Rope know that I'm more of a class warrior than culture warrior, metaphorically speaking. The class one isn't going so well these days as far as my guys are concerned. It's more a one-sided class beatdown. Cultural conflicts, which aren't my main gig keep popping up. One such is the subject of transgender rights or the lack thereof. That's on the menu in this week's Front Porch. I think it's one of the better ones.