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Quite a stretch

Yup, Steve Benen used to be a nice guy, before he started saying ‘darn’ and ‘dagnabbit’.

I need the Jesus Man to clarify

Mike Huckabee says about gay people “I don’t know whether people are born that way, but one thing I know, that the behavior one practices is a choice.”

Does that mean if someone’s heterosexual but they mimic stereotypical gay mannerisms, they choose to act in a way we should criticize? or is he referring specifically to the actual sexual practices, advocating celibacy? If so, unless we get invited in to observe, how do we know what they actually are doing? Or is it okay if someone acts like Liberace just to assume they’re choosing to have sex and condemn them when we’re basically guessing?

Boy, all this marginalizing and condemning and bigotry stuff is a whole lot more complicated than I ever thought. It might be easier to figure out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but then we’d probably have to determine if those floaty things in dresses were really angels, Scottish or deviants behind closed minds.

Things she doesn’t want to think about anymore

Sasha Undercover has some good ones.

Me? I don’t want to think about any liberal blogger or pundit saying “I’d do her/him” or “I’d hit that” unless it’s joking among friends. I recall when one of the Young Turks on Air America said that about Ann Coulter. It wasn’t just the thought of Ann Coulter that made me shudder, but the whole notion that listeners should be privy to a DJ’s desires stated in words just as barren as that made me think: this ain’t Howard Stern. You’re supposed to be representing liberal thought.

It’s one thing to say someone’s hot or to express an attraction in a humorous way. But ‘doing’ someone just sounds too impersonal, and calling someone ‘that’ goes back to the notion that they’re naught but meat. Maybe I’m just too PC or an old romantic or just old, but like I said, I can handle it in a humorous context, but when someone’s serious and on a public megaphone, it just makes me think “geeze, what a creep.”

So what would you like to not hear in 2008?