Saturday, September 30, 2006
Reader Email...
...from Pennsylvania, of all places.
We particularly like how, before his IM messages surfaced, Foley refuted the allegations by claiming Democrats were "slurring" him by calling him gay.
Nice mindset. He likes teenage boys, but it's "a slur" to call him gay.
And these people are running the country.
What the conservative underwear-sniffers never understand is that actual straight guys do not spend one minute of their lives worrying about gay men. Not a moment. Whereas the rightwing moral crusaders -- with their blow-dried hair and snazzy clothes -- obsess about them.
Hmm.
When Mrs. 201k first moved to the Commonwealth we watched an old clip of a Bishop who used to be on TV here in the '60's. She'd never seen him before, but after thirty seconds she laughed out loud and said, "This guy looks as queer as a three-dollar bill". And she was right -- he did.
Thank dog for the slow but steady liberalization of society, for that's what broke open the church sex scandals and finally ended generations of abuse that had manoeuvered and survived under the cover provided by a more conservative era.
Because a people lifted up by liberalism refuse to submit to corrupt authority; they stand up and speak out, no longer cowed by the fear and shame that once made them accessories to their own abuse.
It's like finally hitting the bully back; you discover he's just an evil coward. And once the fear of him is gone, his power over you evaporates.
Liberalism brings enlightenment, and when the dark spell that corrupt authority holds over a conservative society is illuminated, it's broken -- and the corrupt authority loses its grip on the people forever. Which is a good thing.
Of course, the forces of corrupt authority don't like this very much. You listening, Rick Santorum?
Hey, on that subject, we have a riddle for you, Poor Readers:
Q: What do Senator Rick Santorum and the Editor of 201k have in common?
A: Pretty soon neither one of us will be Senators.
- Can we just take it as a given that any conservative spending his life harassing gays or "protecting" children from sexual predators is one?
We particularly like how, before his IM messages surfaced, Foley refuted the allegations by claiming Democrats were "slurring" him by calling him gay.
Nice mindset. He likes teenage boys, but it's "a slur" to call him gay.
And these people are running the country.
What the conservative underwear-sniffers never understand is that actual straight guys do not spend one minute of their lives worrying about gay men. Not a moment. Whereas the rightwing moral crusaders -- with their blow-dried hair and snazzy clothes -- obsess about them.
Hmm.
When Mrs. 201k first moved to the Commonwealth we watched an old clip of a Bishop who used to be on TV here in the '60's. She'd never seen him before, but after thirty seconds she laughed out loud and said, "This guy looks as queer as a three-dollar bill". And she was right -- he did.
Thank dog for the slow but steady liberalization of society, for that's what broke open the church sex scandals and finally ended generations of abuse that had manoeuvered and survived under the cover provided by a more conservative era.
Because a people lifted up by liberalism refuse to submit to corrupt authority; they stand up and speak out, no longer cowed by the fear and shame that once made them accessories to their own abuse.
It's like finally hitting the bully back; you discover he's just an evil coward. And once the fear of him is gone, his power over you evaporates.
Liberalism brings enlightenment, and when the dark spell that corrupt authority holds over a conservative society is illuminated, it's broken -- and the corrupt authority loses its grip on the people forever. Which is a good thing.
Of course, the forces of corrupt authority don't like this very much. You listening, Rick Santorum?
Hey, on that subject, we have a riddle for you, Poor Readers:
Q: What do Senator Rick Santorum and the Editor of 201k have in common?
A: Pretty soon neither one of us will be Senators.
