Okay, I’m all for reclaiming and defusing offensive epithets — black power, grrl power, queer pride, all of it.

But today when I went to get my morning coffee there was a sheriff’s deputy in the coffee shop wearing a navy-blue ball cap embroidered with the words:

(I wonder what the LEIU protestors would’ve had to say. Come to think of it, maybe that’s where he got the hat.)