Whose party is it?

I watched this Sunday's Meet The Press, where Rev. Jerry Falwell said the following:

MR. RUSSERT:  On "Desperate Housewives," Newsweek says that the creator of "Desperate Housewives" is a conservative, gay Republican.

REV. SHARPTON:  That's what I was going to say.  Do you find that...

DR. FALWELL:  Well, the fact that he's a gay Republican means he should join the Democratic Party.

So, does this mean that Falwell thinks that Ken Mehlman, newly appointed head of the Republican National Committee, should leave the party as well? He's apparently gay. Or is that okay, because he's willing to hide his sexual orientation while heading a party that denounces his fellow homosexuals? Which is it Jerry?

When Howard Dean talked about wanting to include "guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks" in the Democratic party he took a lot of heat. I don't hear any prominent Republicans denouncing what Falwell just said about homosexual members of his party. The silence is deafening.

Inadequate training

Quote of the Day

From today's Quote of the Day RSS feed:

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. "

-Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

Red Country

As I look over the map of what counties went for what candidates, it's pretty clear that I never want to live in Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Utah. But then again, I already knew that. :)

Updated: I also like this map [via Scripting News]

Moving on

God I hate it when I'm right. It did come down to Ohio, we haven't even figured out who won the Hawkeye State yet, but it didn't really matter. I guess I could have voted for Nader after all... What I'm most depressed by is the passage of all 11 of the anti-gay marriage ammendments. The idea that 11 states of the country of my birth would ammend their Constitutions with this type of bigotry in the year 2004 makes me ill. Does anyone really think that 40 or 50 years from now, we won't be looking back on this era with the same type of disgust and incredulity with which we now view Jim Crow laws? The trend of history is pretty clear on these matters, human rights eventually prevail, and those that stood in the way forever have their good names tarnished by the bigotry and hate they spouted in return for some cheap political capital.

That said, if anyone in a nice rational country (where they don't decide the election based on the "word" of an Invisible Man Who Lives In The Sky) needs to hire a techie, I'm all ears.