My Send off for Helen Thomas

By now you know about Helen Thomas’ anti-Semitic flame out.  So let me give you my send off to her.  Its an apropos bit of dialogue from Clint Eastwood’s movie “White Hunter, Black Heart.” (note, this is the only awesome moment in the movie, but it is awesome.) Clint, some dude and a pretty woman were having dinner together, when she said pretty much Hitler had the right idea about the jews. The dude reveals he is Jewish and she keeps going saying anti-semitic stuff anyway. And then Clint pipes up (you can read it or watch it on video here and jump to the end):

Is Sullivan suffering from heterosexual panic over Sarah Palin?

Now this is taken heavily from a commenter at Patterico.  I would link to the specific comment, but Patterico’s comment section is all messed up, but this is the post you can look to.

Now Andrew Sullivan used to be one of my daily reads.  He was an interesting and energetic conservativish guy who wrote well, and linked to interesting things.  Then Bush came out against gay marriage and almost overnight Sullivan turned against him and became a downright stereotypical Bush basher.  Which just made him boring and mostly I ignored him.  Then I started learning that he was going absolutely bonkers over Sarah Palin.  As in, he once said “Palin's vagina is the font of all evil in the galaxy.”

Has Obamacare Overturned Lawrence? The End of Privacy in America

Its only been seven years, since the Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that gay sex was protected by the constitution.  I always had this opinion on the opinion.  On one hand, I don’t want cops arresting gay people for having gay sex.  I figure a police department that has enough time to worry about what two consenting adults do to each other is a police department ripe for some budget cuts (hopefully leading to tax cuts, or at least less speeding tickets).  And I work with at least two gay people (that I know of), and I never give them shit about their lifestyle.  Yeah, I don’t support gay marriage, but I don’t support workplace discrimination either.  Call me a moderate, I suppose.  So, so far the Supreme Court hasn’t offended my politics.

But on the other hand, I care about the Constitution and that it be faithfully followed, and the notion that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, who were evangelical Christians, were open-minded about homosexuality is laughable on its face.  So if I was on the Supreme Court I would have to hold my nose and vote to uphold the Texas law.