If
you think that the concept of imposing one's own idea of ethics on others began
with the rise of the far-right religious nuts in the '80s, or even with the
emergence of that local screwball Phyllis Schlafly – who came out of the
kitchen in the '70s, yet thought it was her business to make sure that every
woman in America stay in hers – think again. With the recent death of Doris
Landfather, we're reminded that hypocrisy from the right made an interesting
appearance in the early '70s.
During
her one-term stint as a St. Louis alderman, Landfather's greatest claim to fame
was to try to ban the rock musical "Hair" from opening in St. Louis.
She failed. But that's not the story. The story is that this elected official
from a party that has always championed less government, less regulation and
less intrusion into peoples' lives, thought she had a right to tell society how
to behave. Doris Landfather thought that government should mind their own
business. Yet, she couldn't mind hers.
She
dropped out of high school at age 15 to marry one of her teachers, who she
eventually divorced. Hardly the behavior of a self-proclaimed moral maven.
She
had a later-in-life stint of trying to get her son off of a drug dealing conviction;
not exactly in line with the law-and-order preaching from the right to which
we've all become accustomed.
In
trying to legally regulate personal behavior and personal decisions, Doris
Landfather, thought she was ahead of time, but in truth, she was behind it. But
that didn't stop her from pushing her own twisted sense of morality onto
others.
What
a pious, reprehensible hypocrite.
October 7, 2014
Doris Landfather - The Hypocrite
October 6, 2014
The Supreme Court Comes Out of The Closet
So
the Supreme Court decided against a gay marriage hearing. What the hell made
them throw in the towel on this one? Maybe it was the stark realization that it
might not be so bad to be on the right side of history. Or that as arbiters of
a nation that is supposed to be governed by laws rather than "moral,"
"ethical" or religious proclivities, they had better start acting
accordingly. The real question is, what the hell took you so long?
October 3, 2014
Ted Nugent! He Speaks!
Poor Ted Nugent. Poor dumb, little
Ted Nugent. He has spoken again. The question is, "why?"
Like most uneducated sots, he just
can't keep his mouth shut. And of course, when such a mouth opens, what comes out
of it usually sounds pretty dumb.
As he has since day one, poor dumb,
little Ted has used the shooting incident in Ferguson, Missouri, as an excuse
to bash liberalism, in general. Like his apparent hero, Newt Gingrich, poor
dumb, little Ted likes to inject his diatribes with buzz words, like
"plague" and "thugs." Remember Gingrich and his affection
for the hot, provocative descriptors … "sick," "pathetic"
and "despicable" were a few of his favorites. This, from a guy who
waved "howdy" to his kids as he was getting his dick sucked by one of
his mistresses in a car outside of a political event during his term as a U.S.
Representative, then proceeded to personally serve his wife divorce papers
while she was in a hospital bed, sick with cancer. Has there really ever been a
more despicable human being than Newt Gingrich?
But back to Ted – poor dumb, little
Ted, whose sweeping assumptions simply aren't accurate, proving that Ted's not
necessarily a racist; he's just a victim of the true plague that haunts our
nation: Stupidity.
Personally, I've always gotten a
bang out of poor dumb, little Ted; his music; his rants; his whole personae he
created for himself. But there's a big difference in thinking you know enough
to mouth off about politics and to mouth off about how many groupies you've
fucked in any given week. And even in these oh-so-serious times, he just can't
quite rise up above Neanderthal status. Which, again, is okay in the world of
rock and roll where you can fly through the air on a rope with a pretend cat's
tail pinned to your ass and sing about eating pussy. But not so great in the
real world and certainly not in the world of politics where image is everything
and brains are, sometimes, not.
Throughout his career, Ted has found
himself in the minority when it comes to rock stars and politics. Which is
fine, until you consider his constant cries about letting him and his ilk live
life anyway they want, and everyone else mind their own fucking business. This
attitude, by the way, from the side of the political aisle which thinks it's
THEIR business to tell others who to love, who to marry and who to fuck. As
always, it's not the lies from the right that are so difficult to stomach;
we're used to those. It's the hypocrisy. But poor dumb, little Ted takes that
hypocrisy to a new low when he whines about Bill Clinton and his many known
peccadillos. Ted Nugent – child molesting sex offender – mouthing off about
somebody else's personal life. Amazing.
Maybe it's time for Ted to finally
shut it up.