I did say I was going to write about politics this week, but I only have time for a quickie right now.

Our National Embarrassment (as one political blogger has referred to George W. Bush) has decided to commemorate 12 October, the anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s violent and lonely death, in a unique way. Namely, he has declared it the first day of the new Marriage Protection Week.

For those of you with the memory of fruit flies, Matthew Shepard was the young gay man who, in 1998, was brutally beaten and tied to a desolate fence to die on a freezing Wyoming night. His murder electrified the compassionate community into calling for the addition of sexual orientation into hate crime legislation.

Five years later, the “President” is leading the charge to increase the atmosphere of hatred and intolerance once again. To distract us all from the disaster he has created in the Middle East and the ruinous state of the American economy, he will be making “protecting” the institution of marriage from the influence of wicked homosexuals a cornerstone of his upcoming campaign.

If you have not already signed this petition, please take a moment to do so now.

There is another petition here that will be sent directly to our National Embarrassment. Not that it will do any good, but let’s impress upon him that not everyone is as stupid as he is.