PQ Monthly has the story: After the Facebook page of Lonesome's Pizza filled up with comments from folks offended that the menu called breadsticks "tranny sticks," the weirdo-pizza joint—known for silly menu names and packaging local art with each pizza—offered a sincere apology and promised to change the name to “some other sophomoric, hopefully inoffensive name,” according to the PQ piece.

Lonesome's gets a thumbs up on this one. The idea of kowtowing to sanctimonious activists clearly rankles them—as it rankles a lot of people who have lived in this town for more than 5 minutes—but they were able to get past that knee-jerk reaction to recognize that their jokey name had misfired, and to make a sincere, thoughtful apology.

I think transgender issues still trip a lot of well-meaning people up, and getting called out never feels good, even when you deserve it. (I got yelled at for saying "transgendered" recently. Whoops!) But what it boils down to is: Do you want to get defensive about your right to make a dumb joke, or do you want to not be an asshole? Lonesome's came down on the side of "not be an asshole," and props to 'em for that.