Wednesday, April 23, 2003

A couple of interesting news items are worth commenting on.  First, if you haven't read anything about Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum's absolutely outrageous comments equating homosexuality with incest, polygamy and adultery, you need to.  Here's Salon's wire piece on it: http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/04/22/santorum_protest/index.html I'll spare you all a rant on this for now, but I will make one inflammatory comment.  For all the multitude of faults of the Democrats, at least their stupidity rarely manifests as 18th century attitudes about sexuality and race.  This guy is a United States Senator????  Secondly, if you're not a Salon.com subscriber (and you're crazy if you're not) you may have missed this piece, and you should read it.  It's available to nonsubscribers: http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2003/04/23/kamiya_oreilly/index.html The article explains the story, but in short, Salon published an article a couple of weeks ago that, in part, eats crow on the Iraq war, and says everyone should celebrate the freedom of Iraqis.  It also includes one short section about the left's (and the author's) issues with the war.  That part has been jumped on by any number of jackass right-wing commentators, including the execrable Bill O'Reilly.  Check it out. Oh, and one more.  The New York Times had a story Monday about an Iraqi scientist who says that Saddam destroyed much of his WMD supply just before the war started.  He also says that Saddam gave WMD to Syria, AND that Iraq was cooperating with Al Qaeda. Look, I'm not a conspiracy guy.  I don't like the Bush Administration any more than I like being violentally eviscerated, but I am hard pressed to believe that there's a "secret agenda".  That said, this is fishy.  Could this guy possibly have said more things that the Administration wanted to hear, and, more pointedly, wants Americans to hear?  I am surprised that he didn't also say that all of the 2004 Democratic candidates were working with Saddam in Osama bin Laden's training camps. I guess I didn't go for the benign news today, huh?  4:48:23 PM    Let's hear it. []