A reader notes:<\/p>\n
Dick Cheney, who has a lesbian daughter, said, \u201cI think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish<\/a>.\u201d That means he supports marriage between brothers and sisters, marriage between parents and their adult children, polygamy, and any combination of the foregoing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Cheney has already demonstrated that he doesn\u2019t give a lot of thought to the consequences of his woolly thinking when he recklessly transformed the US into a torture regime in a moment of cowardly panic, so it doesn\u2019t surprise me that he doesn\u2019t give sufficient thought to the consequences<\/a> of his reckless words <\/a>here in his continuing cowardly submission to the Zeitgeist.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Cheney, this analysis of how our ruling classes deal with their own cracked me up:<\/p>\n
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