Mother of all hypocrisies

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U.S. Representative Ed Schrock has abrubtly withdrawn from his reelection bid, after allegations that he was gay surfaced on a weblog a few weeks ago. Oh, and there are audio tapes of him trying to arrange trysts for gay sex. Normally, that'd be no big deal, but this guy was one of the most conservative members of Congress and co-sponsored the proposed Anti-Gay Marriage amendment. He's also scored a 92% favorable rating from the Christian Coalition. Think they'll take back their endorsement now?

There's more, including an audio clip, and a transcript of one of the phone sex calls at Raw Story.

The Virginia Pilot reported in October 2000 that Schrock favored ending the Clinton administration's ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy on gays in the military, BlogActive noted.

"He supports asking enlistees whether they have had homosexual experiences in an effort to to try to keep gays from serving. 'You're in the showers with them, you're in the bunk room with them, you're in staterooms with them,' Schrock said."

Indeed, Schrock should know, he was in the Navy for 24 years, rising from Ensign to the rank of Captain.

And, while normally I wouldn't consider being gay a reason to quit, it strikes me as more than a bit of poetic justice that Schrock is now out of a job, considering he voted against protecting homosexuals from discrimination in the workplace.

Elementary, my dear Watson

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I'm going to help out the Marietta, Georgia police with this one:

Police said Hutcherson and Brohm -- friends since high school -- were drinking at a bar Saturday night and left after Brohm said he felt sick.

Brohm, 23, apparently was leaning out of the window when Hutcherson hit the support wire about a mile and a half from the bar, but police did not know why.

By using my powers of deduction, I'm going to guess that Brohm thought he was going to throw up, and that's why he was leaning out the window, minutes after leaving a bar where he complained he felt sick, but hey, what do I know?