Flush with laughter

31 August 2007

Pardon me while I laugh until I cry at the sight of another sexually repressed Republican pricked on his own petard. Larry Craig’s finished in politics because the far-right nutballs are repressed, too.

The crux of the crisis is that people whose emotional development stopped somewhere around the age of 12 run this country. (Bushies are their sock puppets.)

Sex is the only thing all humans have in common, and, as religionists noted millennia ago, if you can control his sex life, you’ve got the man by the short hairs.

The Middle East would be less of a rat hole if the women-haters of the Prophet’s time had been fed to the wolves. If Osama's boy-men with the bombs and the guns got laid on a regular basis (with women who volunteered), they’d not need to kill, kill, kill. The riot-stagers in Pakistan wouldn’t be able to raise a mob in an instant. They’d all have a more balanced view of life.

Back to the Senator: Why does the tough-on-crime crowd, when one of them gets caught, accuse the cops of entrapment or lying or being out to get them? What ... they support our men in blue only if people they hate get arrested?

Larry-boy pleaded guilty, so nobody has to worry about the "innocent until proven" ideal.

Should a Liberal criticize the Bushies’ Gestapo, Craig and his ilk scream "traitor, commie," etc.

But when he’s the deer caught in the headlights … suck hard on that petard, Larry.


Short trip from idealism to cynicism

Nevadan Ryan Costella, co-founder of the nonprofit organization Youth Voice, recently wrote in the Reno Gazette-Journal, "... I'm living in the political epicenter of the world ... Working in the U.S. Senate has illustrated to me the realities of public life, and more importantly, the many challenges facing our country. Yes, it requires tremendous personal sacrifice, but if more of us pick up the torch, the sacrifice won't be so heavy. ... Every American must pitch in to preserve our country's position as the beacon of hope for the world and the shining symbol of excellence and achievement, regardless of the challenge. I believe we're up to it. Do you?"

Political epicenter? Ah, American arrogance. Beacon of hope for the world? Grow the hell up, kid.