“Sexual eccentricity raises difficult philosophical issues for conservatives. On the one hand…we all have friends whom we know to be, or suspect of being, sexually odd in one way or another, and we do not want to say or write things that would hurt their feelings. On the otherhand, conservatives remember what much of the rest of society has forgotten: that even the most private of acts can have dire public consequences, as witness the epidemic of bastardy that has ravaged the United States over the past 40 years, and also of course the AIDS plague, spread in this country mainly by promiscuous homosexual buggery.” – John Derbyshire, lamenting buggers and bastards, National Review, June 30 print issue.
THE NOOSE TIGHTENS: On British anti-war campaigner, George Galloway.
O’REILLY AND THE EU: What do they have in common? A loathing of free speech on the web.
The Dish 