Annals of Poor Taste

In Minnesota, a woman who had been grief-stricken over the death of her son from a heroin overdose tried to burn down her house, kill her husband, and kill herself, in especially gruesome fashion.

The diagnosis from Power Line, a conservative blog?  It's because she's a Democrat.  The money quote:

This sad anecdote from my neighborhood illustrates a commonplace of sociology: scratch a conservative and you will almost always find a happy person; scratch a liberal and you are likely to encounter a seething cauldron of disappointment and rage.

Ugh.  How grotesque.

HT: Sullivan.

Rahm Way Out in Front

Good.

Sanity Is A Political Liability In North Korea

Well, we all knew it.  But is it now safe to say that the same is true here, too?

Since It Seems To Need To Be Said Again

Bad Ideas

Here's one:

I'm of the complete opposite view.  Both should be permitted.  We'll have (pun oh so intended) fewer bums amongst the bushes of our golf courses, as well as better aim, for fear of striking one of them.

And there's other bad news tonight, but I think this is the real outrage.

Oh, I also don't know what country the picture is from, and suspect it's not from around here.  And that's something to be thankful for tonight.

The picture is not mine and is taken from the Facebook page of a friend of a friend.  And yes, I know that's not really a golf club.

Luzhkov Out

In Russia, Medvedev has fired Moscow's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov.  (Yes, the president can do that sort of thing in Russia, thanks to Mr. Putin.)  Luzhkov is virulently anti-gay - but don't expect much improvement when his successor arrives on the scene.

Meanwhile, in Minnesota

Walter Mondale sees a bit of Carter in Obama.  Ouch.

Two Videos

Here's one on the failure of political leadership:

...and here's a bit of splenetics (with bad language):

Both with music!

HT: Savage.

It Gets Better Gets Better

Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" was the noble project of the day yesterday. It still is today. One of his readers also touts the therapeutic value of Stephen Fry's letter to his younger self of 35 years ago. It, too, is noble and good, and uplifting. It is important to remember, for example, that

Gay people sometimes believe (to this very day, would you credit it, young Stephen?) that the preponderance of obstacles and terrors they encounter in their lives and relationships is intimately connected with the fact of their being gay. As it happens at least 90% of their problems are to do with love and love alone: the lack of it, the denial of it, the inequality of it, the missed reciprocity in it, the horrors and heartaches of it. Love cold, love hot, love fresh, love stale, love scorned, love missed, love denied, love betrayed ... the great joke of sexuality is that these problems bedevil straight people just as much as gay. The 10% of extra suffering and complexity that uniquely confronts the gay person is certainly not incidental or trifling, but it must be understood that love comes first.

And if Fry's letter is like a comforting blanket, there's a letter from the Master himself that's more akin to a bucket of cold water thrown at the face. He knows, better than most, that love is irrational, and causes you to do the most ridiculous things - to risk your fortune, to risk your freedom, to risk your health, to risk your happiness, to debase yourself, to immolate yourself, to jeopardize if not give away outright the better part of yourself.

May it always be so.

Christine O'Donnell's Flag

Ha!

HT: JMG.

The National Hangover

Today, of course, is National DADT Repeal Fail Hangover Day (NDADTRFHD). How does your head feel today? Mine is pretty banjaxed, I must admit.

Well, if you feel as I do, here's your aspirin: a Florida state appeals court today upheld a lower court ruling that the Sunshine State's ban on gay adoptions is unconstitutional. (It's unclear from the story whether that was the state constitution or the U.S. Constitution.)

Oh merciful God, some good news!

John McCain Is an Evil, Lying Bigot and Should Resign

Department of "The Root of All Evil"

So, what are the gays being blamed for now? Why, global warming and human trafficking, natch! (HT: JMG.)

Sheesh. What won't the gays be blamed for? Well, at least they can't blame us for hurricanes - whoops, spoke too soon there. Well then, surely not for terrorist attacks - whoops again. Well, they would never say that people with HIV/AIDS got what they deserved - argh, wrong again (those who say this then run for the Senate from Delaware).

Okay, let's try one last time. To my knowledge, gays have never been blamed for the death of Jesus. In the long history of nutjob accusations against gays, this is one bomb that's never been thrown. Whew.

It's no surprise, though. We all know who is really responsible for the death of Jesus, anyway. You know - those scheming evilmongers who engage in ungodly work and who are up to their armpits in the blood of Christian babies. That's right. The abortionists. Get 'em, Glenn Beck!

The Right Thing To Do

Ireland's president, Mary McAleese, declines to march in the New York St. Patrick's Day Parade because the organization behind that parade won't allow gays to participate. I've been amazed at recent indications of how tolerant Ireland is becoming, and appalled at how stubborn we are here. Why the surprise, in both respects? Have I been expecting too much from America? Not enough from Ireland?

Exactly.

HT: Sullivan.

And Just What Is This?

Did a staffer for Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) post "all faggots must die" in the comments section of a gay blog moments after the vote on DADT? WTFF?

With Friends Like These....

Senator Dick Durbin has some advice for Rahm Emanuel on his possible/probable run for mayor in Chicago:

Rahm is an extraordinary Chief of Staff. I've seen him at his best and I've seen him do some things behind the scenes which will never be reported in history... But this a once in a lifetime opportunity. He could be a powerful force. He has to make his decision soon, get on the ground. You can't win this from the White House, you have to win it from the streets of Chicago.

Sound advice, yes - the election is on February 22, 2011, and that will be here in no time. But highlighting Emanuel's Svengali tendencies? I doubt that will play well.

And here's a funny clip from SNL, showcasing Rahm's hot head and salty tongue. (It's bleeped, but use your head if you're at work, would ya?)

A Bit of Good News

The sideshow that is Christine O'Donnell, the newly minted GOP Senate candidate from Delaware, doesn't look like it will go anywhere. Phew. If this holds, we can just grab the popcorn and enjoy the spectacle.

Please God. Let this hold.

HT: Political Wire.

Christine O'Donnell: There's More Evidence for Creationism Than for Evolution

Wha-wha-what?!?

Yes, this is what she argued - if you understand the word "argued" to mean "dreamt up" - back in 1996. Her evidence? Yeah, the Bible. Q.E.D., Christine.

What with this, and a forthcoming conference of those who believe that the world is really flat, there has been entirely too much medievalism of late.

Which is ironic, because if we were consistently medieval in our outlook, O'Donnell would of course be burned as a witch.

Absolutely Unbelievable

An assistant attorney general in Michigan has launched a weird, perverse campaign against the openly gay president of the Student Assembly at the University of Michigan. This is just unreal:

More info here. And here's the AAG's blog itself. Unreal!