It’s about Fascism: Why Everyone Should Eat At Chick-Fil-A On Wednesday

Sorry for the blog absence.  Non-blogging life has kept me busy and some illness didn’t help.  But I want to make time to say this.  You need to eat at Chick-Fil-A on Wednesday.  Liberal, conservative, you need to do this.

Liberals had been complaining that Chick-Fil-A is too conservative for a while now.  The first hint is that they are actually closed on a Sunday.  Seriously, who does that anymore?  Most retail and dinner establishments are open at least for a while every day of the week, but not those rebels at Chick-Fil-A.  And then its President, Dan Cathay, poured kerosene on that slow burning fire by saying that

"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,'" Cathy said. "I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about."

Cathy explains that the company that his father created and the one that he now runs is possible because of family and the support that families offer.

"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that … We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that," Cathy said.

Well, that needless to say infuriated many gay rights advocates, and even fairly conservative or libertarian types I respect deeply like Gabriel Malor.  And while I just kind of wish we could choose where we eat based on what tastes good at a good price, a boycott like this is part of the ordinary ebb and flow of politics.  Each person decides what is important, what is worthy of boycott and they carry it out.  A boycott is a form of protected expression that I only wish we had more respect for, even if I am sick of every meal being a matter of a cause.

But then things went further than that.  Chicago City Alderman Joe Marino said more or less, “that’s a nice restaurant chain ya got there.  Shame if something happened to it.”  Okay, what he actually said is contained in this passage:

Liberal Fascism at Joe My God

Okay so the other day there was a cloture vote on a bill that would end don’t ask, don’t tell.  At a blog called Joe My God, a blog which appears to be pro-gay-rights, a commenteridentifying himself as “Jimmy” writes simply: “All Faggots must die.”

Sorry for the ugly language, but I don't think I should sugarcoat it.

That comment is ugly, of course, and was correctly put down by everyone.  But I mean, that is all he wrote and then apparently disappeared.  So first, am I the only one to smell a Moby?*

But Joe manages to out-douche the guy, which when you think about it is quite an achievement.  He was so incensed he decided he need to track down who this commenter was.  How dare you say something ugly on my blog!  Now I will investigate you!

That is right, he put up the commenter’s IP address in an effort to discover who the real culprit is.  Now as a computer geek, let’s just say I am a pretty good lawyer.  So I can’t really check their work, but they said it definitely came from the building at 3625 Cumberland Boulevard, in Altanta, Georgia.  And OMG, that is where Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss’s office is!  So now Joe My God and the Atlanta Constitution are trying to find out if someone on his staff wrote it.

Bear in mind, there is no good reason to think that anyone in the office did.  I mean if you run a reverse address lookup on the building, you find there are over 100 matches in the White pages.  There are probably hundreds of people who work there, including a Democratic Senator.  Indeed, if you knew enough to know how the IP would work, if you were a liberal in the same building you might think that posting a comment like that would be a great way to discredit Chambliss.  In short, again, I smell Moby.

But in the end over what?  A comment on a blog.  Oh, you said something we don’t like on a blog.  So let’s track you down and make sure your life is ruined!

On his blog, Joe doesn’t give his last name as far as I can tell.  But I am guessing it is McCarthy.

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* If you don’t know, a Moby is a person who pretends to be a conservative and then says something so outrageous that it discredits other conservatives.  It is named after the performer Moby, because he suggested doing that sort of thing.  I suspect if a person does the same thing to liberals, the term would also apply.

And don’t be embarrassed not to know that.  I didn’t until pretty recently.