Utopia 2025

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

-Charles Mackay

“[Mr. President,] you were in Baghdad for five hours. And you weren’t really even in Baghdad – you were in the Green Zone. That’s like going to the Olive Garden and then saying you visited Italy.”

-Jon Stewart

It must be agony for hard-line conservatives to watch Fred Phelps and his “church” these days. The cognitive dissonance must be excruciating. After all, “God Hates Fags” = GOOD, but demonstrating at Iraq war soldiers’ funerals = BAD. The pain! The pain!

“It is a shame when the overboard Homosexuals look less offensive than the so-called religious People.”
“I bet some of Phelps gang are closet fags themselves.”
“Unfortunately what I hate is the fact that I also think homosexuals are an abomination and these monkeys make people with real convictions Biblically grounded look like idiots.”

-random Free Republic mouth-breathers

As the “gays are icky and it’s an election year” train rolls on, I wonder: is someone archiving all this anti-gay rhetoric on the ephemeral World Wide Web and elsewhere, so in 50 years we can use it, Strom-Thurmond-style, to remind people what bigoted assholes they were?

I would respectfully suggest that HIV deniers like Dean Esmay, who call people who believe in 20 years of science “fucking cowards,” volunteer to have themselves and their entire families injected with HIV. If it’s so harmless, as they smugly and recklessly assert, then they can become heroes for the cause. Imagine the accolades they will receive as they sail, drug- and gay-sex-free, healthfully into old age.

Seriously. Put up or shut up, bitches.

Writing about Ann Coulter in any form is stupid, since all she wants is publicity anyway. So I’ll just close the whole topic with this “I wish I wrote that” comment from Balloon Juice on one of Coulter’s “witches” who are “enjoying their husbands’ deaths”:

Having seen Kristen Breitweiser several times on television, I think she would be happy to debate anyone, anytime on any aspect of our pre-9/11 preparedness or what has happened in terms of homeland security since then. I don’t think anyone who supports the Bush Administration’s policies really wants that debate because she knows more about this subject than probably anyone else, including the 9/11 Commission. I don’t give her positions on anything more credence because her husband died, I give them credence because she really knows her shit.

These women did what I hope I would have done in their place. They could have gone on with their lives, but they decided that they would do everything they could to try to make sure this never happens to anyone else. I can’t think of a better way to honor their dead loved ones.

‘Godless’ author Coulter unknown at church she claims to attend

Love it love it love it.

I have to agree with a commenter on (I think) Balloon Juice who said, someday that girl’s mouth is gonna write a check her butt can’t cash.

When Bill O’Reilly thinks Ann Coulter has gone too far, clearly we are headed for the Apocalypse. Someone alert Demi Moore.

“Ann Coulter reminds me of a crack whore I used to know. Except I felt sympathy for the crack whore. And the crack whore was a woman.”

-ThinkProgress commenter Pope Ratzo

One of the old chestnuts trotted out during these even-numbered-year debates about letting gay people get married is the slippery slope argument: if we let gays get married, what’s to stop polygamy, incest, bestiality? Hell, Mildred might want to marry her cat, or her favorite lamp, for that matter. Stop the madness now!

To me it’s pretty simple: incest, bestiality, and for that matter the lamp, all fail the consent test. Underage people of any gender can’t consent to a marriage, nor should they. Animals definitely can’t consent. So there you go. Simple, right? It’s not about what you or I consider perverted; it’s whether both parties can consent to the relationship.

Which leads into polygamy. I believe that if all parties are adults and consent to the arrangement, I have no problem with it. Those who know better about these issues than I do say that much polygamy in this country involves coercion and/or underage girls, both of which would fail my consent test.

Finally, am I the only one who thinks Rick Santorum is just a little *too* preoccupied with “man-on-dog” sex?