Good god

Thinking again about Goldberg's stupid book bemoaning the fact that a "drunk in a bar not too long ago, would not use the f-word, but Chevy Chase would call the President a dumb-blank at the Kennedy Center."

Fine, so people like me use the f-word just a little too much. I like the word. I try not to offend people (outside the blog). But the point is bigger than that. I am (in my mind) a person motivated by morality. I don't steal, cheat on my taxes. I treat my friends and family with respect.

Anyway. So, let's look at a few stories that are truly vulgar. How would Bernie react to these vulgarities?

SI.com - More Sports - Police: Coach paid kid to hurt disabled player - Friday July 15, 2005 5:04PM: "PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A T-ball coach allegedly paid one of his players $25 to hurt an 8-year-old mentally disabled teammate so he wouldn't have to put the boy in the game, police said Friday."

I doubt conservatives like this either, but the win at all costs mentality of Rove and his minions reminds me of this. Can't you see Rove pushing the disabled kid so he didn't have to lose?

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or how about this (thanks, Mainstream Baptist)one about a charity in Mississippi who won't accept applications for adoption from CATHOLICS because they don't agree with the "agency's statement of faith." Big problem considering that this stupid agency gets State money. How many Christian Conservatives think that Catholics aren't really Christians? So, if they had their way, would we have not just a Christian nation, but an Evangelical Christian nation where Menonites, Catholics and Episcopalians need not apply?

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I am really close to just giving up on politics. I am certainly in news avoidance mode on the Rove situation. Republicans are just better at lying and subverting their country, I guess. The current memes going around are things like Rove being a patriotic whistle blower. That's right, the guy who has called people pedophiles or claimed that opponents had sex with black women, is actually a great American hero. Please.

Someone suggested to me that Clinton was this bad. To be this bad, Clinton and his supporters would have argued that Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky was actually a good thing for American policy. After all, a tense President could make bad decisions, right.

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A friend asked me yesterday why this stuff bothers me so much. My email response was something like this: "You see that latest post on my blog? From that other woman's blog? I grew up (as you well know) in a church and family that stressed morality. I hung out with people who did too. Even though I am no longer a church member, I have spent the last 15 years of my life defending my transition away from the conservative position. Defending it to people who all assume that I went out on some lark of rebelion but that ultimately I would come right back to where they were and where I came from.

Now I see that entire place I came from and grew up in--I see them all marching like robots with their head down. The talk of morality--all the lessons I learned as a kid? All of that seems to be gone. In its place are people who overlook torture and war, and who seem to value bizarre theories about the end times over real atrocities in our own. People who support Bush for language but not for action.

Even though I am not a Baptist any longer, the world seems upside down. And even though I know that many of those people are good people, I see them doing nothing to change it. Nothing. In fact, they vote to keep it the way it is and buy the spin from Fox news."

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So, in conclusion (and redundancy, but its my effing blog, isn't it [watching the British Open, so hear that with a british accent], I don't want to hear conservatives ever bitch and moan about cultural decline. If you can excuse Karl Rove that is all I need to know. If you can chuckle at Ann Coulter but think Michael Moore is a dangerous America-hater, then that is all I need to know.