Not so long ago, I posted about Buffy The Vampire Slayer and why it was a great TV show. I also posted about idiot Alabamians who wanted to remain in the 1950’s.

Why did I just remind you? Oh, you’ll see.

If you watch Buffy, you know that Willow Rosenberg is a witch. She’s also a lesbian. That means she likes to have “relations” with girls. And by my clever use of the pronoun “she” you can, I’m guessing, understand that she is a, well, she. And hopefully by “relations” you understand that I mean “get naked in bed and play with each other”, yes?

Well, Gerald Allen, State Representative of lovely (stuck in the past) Alabama, “wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries.”

Now, I know what you’re saying. “Hi, Buffy is TV, and, er, books are, well, not TV.”

But y’know, it has to start somewhere, and I can tell you right now that Mr. Gerald (”Fuck the Present”) Allen will probably not be satisfied until he has managed to spread his intolerance throughout our culture. Hell, I can only imagine what Allen’s thoughts of Alexander are …

Dave Friedman says, “The boys in Alabama never learn that the idiocy of their politicians makes them the tragic laughingstock of our country.” Well, at least the boys in West Virginia are getting some slack.

Allen did say one thing quite telling, “[our] culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle.” What Mr. Allen doesn’t realize is that he’s the one doing the attacking.

Via Talking Points Memo comes this rather disturbing story.

So it seems like a church is trying to promote itself as being “open” and “non judgemental” and welcoming of “…all people, regardless of ability, age, race, economic circumstance or sexual orientation.”

This must be such a horrid thought to people! Christians who aren’t being assholes and trying to force their beliefs on people? Nay! Although it does explain why CBS and UPN and NBC are being pussy bitches, and refusing to air the commerical because “[it] touches on the exclusion of gay couples and other minority groups by other individuals and organizations,” reads an explanation from CBS, “and the fact the Executive Branch has recently proposed a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast on the [CBS and UPN] networks.”

And I say, all the more reason why it SHOULD be aired! We have serious problems in this country, problems of discrimination against homosexuals, and problems of an attempted takeover by the Religious Right. As we see what fundementalist religion has done to the middle east, let us remember that such horrid acts are not isolated to Islam — any time when a religion has such sway, the people under it suffer.

This is a fight for the very soul of America. And I doubt Jesus Christ would be on the side of those championing intolerance, hatred, bigotry, and censorship. The fight is so well defined, even many Republicans and conservatives are aligning against it. This is a fight we dare not lose.

And when I say “we”, I don’t mean liberals or leftists. I mean Americans who cherish the basic promise of the country - freedom for all, without regard to those factors which make us different from one another. Freedom for speech, for thought, for religion.

DC is well known for the evil animals that live within its borders. They devour the average taxpayer and drag DC’s bueracracy into a slag. We call them “politicians”, and many of them have names: DeLay, Hastert, Bush, etcetra.

Well, another kind of predator, the kind the ranchers hate, have moved in. Or maybe were here all along: just really well hidden.

For several months, people had been seeing them among the trees, most often in the long light of dusk: lithe, clandestine creatures slinking over the hillsides that mark the city limits.

Coyotes, the subject of folklore and the scourge of ranchers, have finally made their way into the nation’s capital.

But just to prove that the northeast of the US is indeed, the very best region of the nation, these aren’t no ordinary western Coyotes!

In Connecticut, researchers have caught males weighing close to 50 pounds.

The difference in size from their Western cousins has caused some scientists to question whether coyotes are forming a new subspecies in the East. Cold weather might have driven natural selection to favor bigger, better-insulated animals. Genetic evidence suggests that, as they migrated, they have bred with dogs and wolves, which could explain the extra pounds.

So, they could be a new, evil species: Wolfyotes!

Also: They often seem to have a real fondness for cats,” Montuori said. This is why when my cats go out to, y’know, eat little creatures, I stand on the porch with my shotgun to shoot any little kids who get too close.

Actually, I don’t have a porch. Or a shotgun. And for that matter, my cats don’t go outside. Ever.

… of MalnurturedSnay.net.

Cool.