Tales of a Shrink

As if you needed another reason not to buy a Ford. I'm sure that you all have heard that Ford Motor Company agreed to pull ads from gay-themed publications, officially as a way to cut costs, but likely as a result of the boycott from the American Family Association. (I sent an e-mail to Ford earlier this year about this...remember?) I'm not surprised that Ford took this step--the truth is that the automaker has a long history of bigotry.

So, somehow, when I heard about Ford's financial problems, I can't bring myself to feel sorry. (Yes, I am aware that the people who will be laid off are not the people who make these kinds of decisions, but still. I'm sure I'll be more sympathetic as the weeks go by, but for today, I'm an asshole.)

In other (right)Wing Nut news, Michael Reagan calling for Howard Dean to be executed. Dean's crime? Speaking out about the Iraq war. Reagan called Dean's speech "treason."

Hearing Michael Reagan--the son of Ronald Reagan--call Dean's criticism of the war "treason" makes me think that I've fallen into some kind of crazy parallel universe. Ronald Reagan, for the record, sold weapons to Iran, so that Iran could bomb Iraq, and then took the proceeds from that sale and funded an insurrection in Central America--an action that Congress had specifically forbidden. All the while the Reagan administration was secretly funding and supporting Iraq against Iran, and encouraging Iraq to step up the war.

Oh yeah, play both sides of a war for profit and they name an airport after you... but say that it's unlikely that America will actually achieve victory in Iraq--that's a crime punishable by death.

I have to go now. I feel faint.

But I'll leave you with this:

Yes, that's Donald Rumsfeld, who was the special envoy of Ronald Reagan, shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in 1982. And, if you're paying attention, you will remember that Saddam Hussein is currently on trial for crimes against humanity committed in that same year. Hey, Mr. Rumsfield--did he get blood on your hands?