The rent's high, and the war's on, and it's last call; even your friends look worried.

Just when you think conservatives (Republicans, ahem) can't go any lower...they do!

First, Rush Limbaugh claims the Virginia Tech killer was clearly a liberal, with his head full of liberal, anti-rich propaganda. Never mind that he was actually a paranoid schizophrenic, but that's all semantics. Rush by far takes the cake for stooping to the lowest low possible to spin a horrific, mind-numbing tragedy for political gain. I mean, seriously, the guy is a sociopath! Rush, that is. It completely boggles the mind. Besides, I thought all liberals were the rich and elite.

Secondly, Guiliani yesterday said that if a Democrat is elected President in 2008, we can start expecting a lot more attacks equal to, or that rival, 9/11. Is anybody buying this anymore? Really? Anyone?

Third, in an interview released today, Laura Bush claimed that no one suffers over the Iraq war more than she and the President do. There's nothing to even say in response to that. The really sad part of it is, I think she really believes it. Except, well, it's weird that they would be suffering so much over one little bombing a day! It's just one bomb.

And lastly, on a somewhat more entertaining note, I want to direct anyone that hasn't yet seen it to my friend Dylan's little call and response to the always charming Dinesh D'Souza.

It's been a great week in the good ole U S of A, folks. Just the kind of week that makes you wonder what you're still doing here.

On the plus side, I only have 2 days of school left this semester.

I never did care much for pepperoni pizza.

An interesting two-some. Denesh D'Souza and Ted Haggard?

While we're on the subject of evangelicals and homosexuality, one would think that the recent spate of de-closeted evangelical preachers would produce an honest reckoning from the religious right. Haggard and Barnes are nothing new; leaders of the "reparative therapy" movement often get caught sleeping with men. So if the religious right's own leaders are gay, might that not alter these people's perception of homosexuality, just a tad bit? Eh, not so much. You see, for this crowd, it doesn't matter that homosexuality has existed throughout human history and across cultures. So have rape, murder and theft. Homosexuality is merely behavior: misbehavior. These preachers are not homosexuals, they're straight men who succumbed to improper impulses, like an otherwise perfect driver who takes a left on red.

Yeah, I know. More of the same....

Faggots and Maggots

I wonder what it says about me that people like Denesh S'Souza no longer make me angry, they just make me sad and remind why I've dropped out of obsessively following politics like I used to.

He was on the Colbert Report last night promoting his new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. And ironically, by pretending to agree with Mr. D'Souza, Mr. Colbert actually gets him to admit that he sympathizes with the terrorists. Sort of tricky and under-handed, yes, and D'Souza clearly doesn't get the joke and that it's on him, but perhaps he should do his research before he agrees to appear on talk shows.

Crooks and Liars has the video up here. Trust me, it's well worth watching, if for no other reason than to see this asshole hang his head in humiliation at the end of the interview.

There's also a pretty brutal Washington Post review of the book here.