The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I'm not exactly sure why I tend to enjoy torturing myself by regularly reading through the Columbus Dispatch letters-to-the-editor, but I again did so today, and as usual, I was not left disappointed. By disappointed , I mean, due to the rather high frequency of grammatically putrid and laughably inaccurate letters I read in the Dispatch , my expectations are such that, if I didn't read such a letter in a given day's viewing, I'd walk away being quite surprised and oddly missing the typical laughter such letters tend to prompt. The winner for craziest letter-to-the-editor of the day goes to one Mike Queen of Lucasville, Ohio, who wrote the following piece, which was entitled, "Strickland should fear God, not voters": "Democratic Senate candidate Ted Strickland has insulted God and betrayed the values of the people of Southern Ohio from where he comes ( Dispatch article, May 8). By referring to marriage exclusively between one man and one woman as prej...

There are several good reasons why I continually satirize the Republican Party more so than the Democratic Party (with exceptions like Anthony Weiner). As regular readers will know, I don't praise the Democratic Party a great deal, but do bash the Republican Party quite regularly. While the Democratic Party does bother me a great deal at times, it is also the more balanced of the two parties at this current juncture. I'd definitely consider myself to be more liberal than most Democrats in Congress, particularly the Senate, however, I'm cognizant of the fact most people in this country are moderate and in representing them, I'd like to see Congress reflect that more readily. That's the thing. While Democrats, especially in the Senate, are fairly moderate, to the point where it's rare to find them all agree on a bill, and are often times willing to compromise with the other side of the aisle, Republicans have been moving steadfastly to the extreme right end of the...