Bill Bennett: Shock Moralist

I'm loath to write about this, because I imagine every blogger worth his or her worthless fucking salt is doing the same, but there's no way to ignore what Ronald Reagan's former Secretary of Education and self-appointed moralist, William Bennett, had to say on his radio show. To wit: "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." (http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006)

Now, some of you are probably saying, "I agree wholeheartedly, and that's why every morning I make a point of coming here and... oh wait a minute, this isn't The Spoonbender." Others of you are saying that the Bennett quotation was taken out of context, and indeed it was, but the only thing the context differentiates is that, in real life, he doesn't think it's a good idea. Even in context, though, he seems thoroughly convinced that it's the truth. Which, I don't know, maybe it is. I'm not especially eager to find out. I can't say the thought has crossed my mind, and I hope to Christ that if I'm ever in any position where more than six or seven people care what I have to say and I actually had a crackpot notion like that enter my skull, I'd be nowhere near dumb enough to ever say it out loud, let alone broadcast it on the radio.

Whatever. Here would be a good place to throw a made-up list of other horrible things Bill Bennett has said, but it would actually be hard to top the one that he really did say, and anyway I'm sick for the second time in, like, a month and a half, which leads me to worry that perhaps I've pissed God off enough for the time being. I don't want to step on any toes here.

I will say this, though: "Lost" is beginning to piss me off. I mean, the little "coming up next week" trailers at the end of each episode are ultimately more satisfying than the actual episodes. I demand some answers, godammit! I mean, golly dang it! And speaking of unsatisfying TV shows, I'm not sure how many more times I can sit stone-faced, staring at "Family Guy" and trying to figure out just why it's never more than slightly funny. Oh, and of course, "Arrested Development" and its wacky, ticky collection of zany goofballs, crazy silly-billies, nutsy cuckoos, and outrageously unpredictable scenarios can suck on my hot, greasy, anus. Amen.