Ryan King

I wouldn’t sit on somebody’s tomb and have a picnic, unless it was about 2000 years old.

Older gaveyards (or old sections) are beautiful and have interesting headstones and statuary and I think it is cool to picnic there, especially at night.

A picnic in a modern section is in poor taste and might needlessly upset some people, but in the big picture it is pretty minor.

New Orleans Cemetery has old and new mixed and even has ‘tours’…[Read more]

I don’t think there is a specific answer that works. If my family memorialized that way, I’d prefer people use the space for joyous things.

Still, cemeteries are for the living, ultimately, and the living are pretty inconsistent in terms of customs, expectations, sense of propriety.

There is a cemetery near where my mother and brother live.…[Read more]

“On top” of the grave? Poor taste at best, though I think a graveyard should not be treated like a public amusement area. So, wrong in that sense, yeah.

At the recent CPAC in Florida (Desantis territory) it was obvious that the GOP is still the party of Trump. I mean they rolled out a “golden calf” in his image for the event! Not sure what Cruz will make of that when he come back down from the mountain top. Maybe he will smash it and try to rebrand himself as the savior of Republicanism while…[Read more]

All the GOP state legislators and governors trying to bring back Jim Crow.

Speaking of governors, Ron Desantis is threatening to be the next Donald Trump.