Last week, I wrote about God's nonspecific warning to Pat Robertson about how hideous terrorist death will be rained on American cities sometime in 2007. (The warning made God seem not unlike former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge, famous for saying "go about your business normally but prepare to die.") In a 700 Club broadcast that got far less publicity than the one in which Pat revealed God's warning, Pat gave a more specific list of the cities facing destruction: "And from what I gather, their targets are New York, Washington, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, just for starters." Robertson went on to criticize the government's lack of preparedness for the sort of nonspecific disaster God warned him about--and at that point, I became confused. Didn't God himself install this current government in office? Is Pat saying that God wants these cities to fall into chaos, by smiting them after putting a gaggle of incompetent boobs in charge of disaster preparedness? Perhaps. Most of the cities named are in blue states, after all, and Las Vegas is a well-known den of iniquity--but what did Miami and Houston do to God, or to Pat?
I swear, if you think too hard about all this, it will make your head explode. Which explains why Pat's head isn't exploding.
Followup Number Two: Just after the election, I wrote about how Wisconsin's marriage protectors, fresh off writing anti-gay discrimination into the state constitution, were planning more attempts to "build a culture of marriage," including limits on divorce and birth control. AMERICABlog picked up a Washington Post story about how the group that pushed Virginia's same-sex marriage ban last year plans to do the same thing. Their first target--ban no-fault divorce for couples who have children. Says the leader of the effort: "When we send a message that one can up and leave their family and have no consequence, the Old Dominion is encouraging divorce." (Not the classic right-wing rhetorical trick: Something is either all one thing or all the other, and there's no middle ground. Of course, this argument only works on some issues. Imagine a wingnut saying this: "If you want to stop crime, you have to ban the use of guns." QED.) The good news: There was a time when such attempts to limit divorce in Virginia would have sailed through the legislature. Now, with the state growing increasingly blue in the north, it's less likely to happen than it might have been even 10 years ago.
Followup Number Three: I picked the right winners yesterday but got the analysis wrong. The Indy/KC game was largely a snooze, and a low-scoring one, but the Seattle/Dallas game had one of those breathtaking finishes we'll talk about for years. What will happen this afternoon?
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