nude highway driving

So let me get this straight …

It’s illegal for a man to have consensual sex with another man in his own home in Texas, but it’s perfectly legal for a man to go pork a farm animal? I can’t help but think they repealed the bestiality ban after intense lobbying from the town of Crawford.

I have nothing really to add to the backlash against Rick Santorum (others have hit it very well), though I do find it funny (in a “this is disgusting” sort of way) that the Right blames the reporter for shit that came out of Santorum’s mouth.

Let’s do a little Journalism 101 here: It would be wrong for a reporter to make things up about a person or interject his/her opinion in a news story. It is OK, fair and encouraged for a reporter to report what someone actually says. Rick Santorum is a public figure and was being interviewed by an AP reporter for a story. He knows he’s being quoted. It’s not her fault that he said things the GOP (at least publicly) might later regret. It wasn’t her own opinion she was quoting, it was his.

It reminds me of the motto at the Aspen Daily News: “If you don’t want it printed, don’t let it happen.” It’s not the media’s fault if you’re a moron.