Animal House - Middle Eastern Edition

Predictably, the lunatics are very upset about Ben & Jerry, both the company and the fact that they are now be able to get married in Vermont.  Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (like many of the sites I post a link to, you might want to consider not eating before you click.  Although if you haven't been before, it's a good primer for some of what's fashionable in hate and lying these days) has crafted a list of other possible gay ice cream flavor names.  I think Peter was trying to be funny or offensive or something when he came up with names like:  Lime Against Nature, Strawberry for Swingers and my personal favorite, Bisexual Butter Pecan.  To be honest, most of the names I found neither funny nor offensive.  They're just kind of boring.  

Peter's friends over at NOM have had a formal complaint filed against them by One Iowa and Interfaith Alliance of Iowa with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board.   There are also complaints pending in California and Maine.  I feel for them.  It must be difficult to fight for segregation without breaking the law. 

If you have eleven minutes, watch as Rachel Maddow eviscerates Tom Ridge.  It's a good time.

Just in case we haven't learned our lesson yet about using private contractors as an army (see today's story about hazing rituals at our embassy in Afghanistan, or Blackwater's allegedly murderous rampage through the streets of Baghdad in '07), we're going to be sending more.

I guess when we voted for change, we really just voted for a change of venue.

I'm wondering about all these people who are sick and tired of the government spending their money for silly things like health care.  Do they know - do they care? - that their money is going towards the funding of hazing rituals in which employees of private security companies get naked, urinate on each other and simulate anal sex?  While that certainly sounds like more fun, I'd rather have affordable health insurance.

And finally, the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, D.C. came out against legalizing or even recognizing gay marriages in the District of Columbia.  It's shocking, right?  In a letter, Rev. Barry Knestout, one of the Archbishop's top assistants, wrote, “Civil governments have recognized marriage throughout human history as between a man and a woman because of marriage’s unique role in protecting the rights of children to have both a mother and a father and because it creates a stable and secure foundation for society.”  Ahh yes, the boringly predictable protect the children and don't let the gays destroy the foundation of our society doubly whammy.  It's convincing until you realize that it doesn't make any sense.  It's like when commercials say "1/3 less fat."  It sounds good but is totally meaningless.

More tomorrow.