Bad Things are Good for You!

Feeling guilty about all that oveindulging you did on Thanksgiving? 

Me neither, but many Americans are.  Nagging nannies constantly wag their fingers at us telling to stop eating this, stop doing that...  It's enough to drive you crazy, so just ignore them and do what you want.

For those who still feel guilty, here's good news, courtesy of my buddy Larry in Paradise:

Top 10 Bad Things That Are Good For You

10.  Beer

9.   Anger

8.   Coffee

7.   LSD (with caveats!)

6.   Sunlight

5.   Maggots

4.   Marijuana (for medicinal purposes only!)

3.   Red Wine

2.   Chocolate

1.   Sex

Go to Live Science to see the rationale behind the list.

Beer, anger, sex and coffee are all great, but engineering on LSD or pot could run the train off the rails...

Mark Sanford: Meeting the Devil Half Way

Let's see... Since the South Carolina Governor dropped his bombshell yesterday, we've lost a classy pinup, and a wiener-grabbing pedo-perv bit the dust. Time marches on...

The Governor's press conference was a painful slow-motion self-deconstruction, what with the emotion and the details and the explaining. Even worse, now the juicy e-mails are on the street. John Dickerson of Slate has written an excellent piece entitled, The Disturbing Glee at Mark Sanford's Downfall. He captures perfectly the pathos of the moment and demonstrates how you can sympathize with someone without condoning the pain and destruction they've caused.

As Garrison Keillor once said, "If you don't want to go to Chicago, don't get on the bus."

His public confession and now the e-mails portray a Christian man who knew he was meeting Satan half way, which is how sin happens. The Scriptures, and human experience, are clear: The forces of evil can't wrestle you to the ground and make you tap out; you've got to cooperate. The smartest of people can do the dumbest of things.

Don't hand your enemies the knife

Of course, gleeful libs are doing giddy little jigs all over the internet because the Man Who Would Defy Obama's Bailout has fallen. South Carolina Republicans are also piling on. A politician who doesn't like to spend money is friendless. Just ask Doug Bruce, the tax-cutting, but socially retarded politician who was bounced from the Colorado GOP caucus for being rude. Politicians fancy themselves artists in the medium of money; take it away and they get pissy.

Which is worse, an emotionless one-night-stand or an intimate love affair?

What's worse, an emotionally-detached, abuse-tinged, power-differential servicing by a starry-eyed intern; or a romantic, head-over-heels falling in love in the land of Evita? This is not a Tu Quoque defense. What Governor Sanford did was inexcusable, and from a wife and family point of view, probably worse. Sex is sex, but emotional intimacy with a woman not your wife is a hard one to get past.

Jenny Sanford is no shrinking violet, as this AP story informs us. She's a Wall Street veteran who is also a dedicated wife and mother. Her absence from the Governor's side and a tersely worded press release reveal a woman just strong enough to weather this storm and set her man back on the right path while ensuring their boys learn the right lessons from all of this.

I said a prayer for the Sanfords. I said a prayer for the Edwards's also. That man's poor wife, fighting cancer with a cheating bastard at her side... They're human, and humans are fallible.

So much of society ridicules our our humanity and strips us of our dignity

Will the Sanford family get through this? With a strong woman, a repentant man, and God's grace, they just might make it. And that, more than politics or any other trivial pursuit, is truly all that matters.

Slate - John Dickerson
AP - Sanford's Wife

Leering Liberals, Dirty Democrats

What is it about over-the-hill liberals and their crouching, creepy interest in sex, especially when it involves teens?

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First Sarah Bernhard jokes about Sarah Palin getting gang-raped in Manhattan (it's performance art. You hicks in the sticks are too unsophisticated to understand how rape can be funny.) Perhaps Bernhard has unresolved anger issues stemming from Madonna dumping her for that skinny guy.

Then it was peeping pedo-bear Larry King asking teen daddy Levi Johnston where he and the Palin daughter "did it." "Did you do it in their house?" was how he phrased one of his creepy questions.

Next, Tyra Banks turned up the heat with Levi, trying to coax intimate details about their contraceptive use, crowd hooting in the background.

Now, an aging, bitter David Letterman, not satisfied with completely trashing Sarah Palin (how original!), goes after her daughter.

Sex is wonderful, but creepy, pedo-tinged liberals make it feel all icky...

Can we pass some kind of law barring old liberals from discussing sex in public? And can we ban the Viagra and prostate commercials while we're at it?

For good commentary on the subject, click the following links:
American Thinker - Rosslyn Smith
NY Post - Lileks