Stephan:   Increasingly when I run these stories about the reality of Republican governance, I come away feeling I need to take a shower. There is a scumminess, a nastiness to so much of it. North Carolina where a rural black child has less of a chance of reaching their first birthday than a child born in Botswana in Africa, has a legislature that has no time for that, but calls a special session for hate. They are obsessed with where people go to the bathroom. It's really quite creepy. Here's the story. And notice this: these same creepy people who bray endlessly about supporting small government, when it comes down to it, become moral dictators intruding into the smallest details of people's lives,  imposing their psychoses on local government. Think about it: a transgender man for all intents a woman goes into the women's toilet, a multi-stall bathroom, goes into a stall and closes the door. How would the other women know what was between her legs? Or a transgender woman comes into the bathroom, goes into a stall and closes the door. Would I personally have knowledge of her lack of a penis? This transgender thing is an obsession not an issue. Oh, and don't miss the minimum wage amendment to this bill.