Thank you thank you

The thanks go to the friend who noted the following item on Facebook:

Republicans turned off by size of Obama's package.

If you don't follow this, you are possessed of the purest mind since Sir Galahad, you poor thing. It is the context, thoughtfully provided by Glenn Beck's fiasco with ex-Congressman Massa, that elevates the comment from the mundane to the hysterical.

Watching Republicans try to be smutty in public is much like watching cows try to waltz or pigs sing. Their entire ethos is built on the premise that smut-think is exclusively male and decidedly no more public than the environs of the frat house. That was overlooked fact number one in Beck's attempt to interview Massa.

Fact number two, as has been mentioned elsewhere, is a little more sombre. Massa's behaviour is all too common amongst deeply closeted sexually different people. Somehow many of them just don't get the idea that not everyone views the world as they do. In their blundering attempts to express their sexuality, they leave a trail of angered and offended people, some of whom turn to homophobia to express their anger. All this makes life more difficult for those who do not fondle where they should not.

Oddly, I don't buy the idea that the closeted people should shoulder the whole burden for this. Wouldn't it be a whole lot better if we only needed closets for their original purpose? They are limiting places for people to hide.

Massa has my sympathy. Beck's disaster--now just the first of the week--couldn't happen to anyone more deserving. And now we read that Rush Limbaugh will flee to Costa Rica if health care reform passes.

Promise?

Can we start a fund to buy the one-way ticket?