Lest anyone think the genital sex culture war is limited to arguments involving homosexuality or the use of words like "scrotum" in children's books, the mud flap flap demonstrates that adults are the targets too. And not urban sophisticates, but plain old non-metro, hetero, truck-driving, adults at that.

I kid you not. The great issue of the day for the forces on each side of the Culture War looks like this:

And the argument against them looks like this:

"I personally am tired of explaining to my 11-year-old son why they (women) are depicted on mudflaps , but not all women are 36Ds. He's very confused by that," Ulmer said. "But seriously, this is about family values -- what are we going to send out as a message to our children."

Sigh.

I never really thought about what message I was sending out by allowing a truckdriver to have mud flaps like that. But since "we" means me, maybe we should start requiring size 36D mud flaps on all trucks. That way, the nasty Islamists will have a tougher time driving fuel tankers into bridges and stuff, because their refusal to display the mud flaps will stand out in advance of their attacks. Just a thought.

And if we really wanted to freak out the Islamist enemies, we could go further yet by returning to the days before the culture war, and bring back the "bomber girls" like these:

If you think that's bad, check out this bestially suggestive image:

Here's one designed for flying over the hump:

I think the above are more impressive than the mudflaps they want to ban. Of course, the latter are only about trucker morale, while the former are about war morale, but hell, we're in a war, aren't we? That's why I suggested making them mandatory.

Supposedly, bomber nose art was banned in recent years, but I can't verify this.

But at least in the old days, they really knew how to fight a culture war. Why, they even had girls on the hood!

I'm telling you, the Culture War is Hell!

MORE: Laura W. at Ace of Spades has more on the claim by Rep. Ableser that he had seen mud flaps with a derogatory term for black children -- "pickaninny" -- and there is some discussion in the comments as to whether any such mud flaps exist. I've never seen one, and a diligent search failed to find one.

Is it possible that Ableser just made it up, and that the real goal was to ban the girl silhouettes?

AND MORE: Believe it or not "mud flap" is listed here as a racial slur.