...and now, Rooty will wear pants.

In a gently humorous trolling, A&W has announced that Rooty the Great will now wear pants. The spokesbear for the root beer brand has been pantless --like so many other beloved cartoon figures-- all along, but, bowing to the social pressures put on by Fox News, Rooty will now wear jeans.

This is, of course, all in fun, and in solidarity with the M&M spokescandies that I wrote about yesterday. Fox Business, however, did not get the joke. They took it seriously, and are all up in arms about "wokeness" and "cancel culture" in cartoon figure advertising.

For heaven's sake. Lighten up, Right-wingers. In more serious news, there is a group of young scholars who are going to be suing Gov. DeSantis over his denial of their right to an optional college-board course of studies in African American History. I, for one, think it's pretty darn refreshing to see a group of kids agitating to have access to education. Maybe there's hope for us yet.

Have a good day,

C