[Originally posted 13 July 2011]
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o Friday the thirteenth comes on Wednesday this month, as
Churchy La Femme used to observe, and the consequent madness surrounds us.
(Only a full moon rivals the thirteenth for lunacy, and we’re not going to have
one of those until, let’s see, uh, tomorrow….) At least two Republican
candidates for the most powerful office in the world signed a pledge observing
that African-Americans had been better off in some ways under slavery, in that
at least slave-children were raised in two-parent families. I suppose that
could be regarded as true, in a perverse dysfunctional sort of way, in that
many enslaved children were the property
of their biological fathers, who likewise owned their biological mothers. The
historical idiocy is breathtaking, though at least the candidates had some sort
of excuse—this language was part of the preamble, not actually part of the
pledge itself.
I already expressed my opinion of any candidate who would sign
this vile vow, and I’m glad to see that several Republican candidates are backing
gingerly away from it—though I’d rather they denounced it as anti-American in
no uncertain terms. I mean, this lunatic leaflet complains about “non-committal
co-habitation”, refers to “innate traits like race [!]”, worries that people
may think “against all empirical evidence, that homosexual behavior in
particular, and sexual promiscuity in general” are not unhealthy, and claims
that “robust … reproduction is beneficial to … health and security.” And this
thing was presumably written by adults living in the twenty-first century. Does
this nest of loons have other candidate oaths supporting leeches for
healthcare, opposing interracial marriage, or promising to find the
philosopher’s stone so we can solve our economic problems by turning lead into
gold? When I first saw this I was half expecting it to turn out to be a piece
from The Onion or the like, but apparently these guys are serious. It’s a
little late for April Fools, anyway.
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