A sense of humor

One thing which is critical to possess in this world is a sense of humor. Bill Donohue has been blessed with a superb one. He skewers KKT, but oh, so gently:

I spent my St. Patrick’s Day marching in the parade up New York’s Fifth Avenue, and then drank beer with my friends. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend spent her St. Patrick’s Day at a conference attended by homosexuals, lesbians, and men/women with new genitals. I had a good time.

Kathleen is confused. She says the Catholic Church’s teachings “encourage bigotry and harm.” She doesn’t cite a single example, so she obviously meant some other religion. She also says that the conference was put on by a Catholic organization called New Ways Ministry. Again, she is confused—there is no Catholic group by that name (on St. Patrick’s Day last year the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reaffirmed that New Ways Ministry is not a Catholic organization). To top things off, she says that two female priests gave her a special blessing at the conference. More confusion: my religion does not have female priests. All three errors of fact were made in the first six sentences, which is why I didn’t go any further.

I am at a loss to know what the source of Kathleen’s confusion is. This wouldn’t be so bad if she didn’t have that sterling Kennedy name.

Love that photo. Too funny.

To lack a sense of humor isn't so much to be sad as it is to be angry. Someone has been trying to get me to fight with her on Fbook over Obamacare. She is someone who has been on the left her whole adult life, and she knows where I'm at; she knows I'm conservative. So I don't know why she is bothering to try to get me to argue. She is not married, has no kids, and I really feel bad for her. There is anger and bitterness behind the confrontational language in her direct messages to me and in her indignant tone over Scalia's remarks which I posted over on Fbook.

All the "defenses" of Obamacare which I've heard from committed lefties are pretty weak. "You're a racist" is, of course, both the silliest and the most impossible to refute, along with "why do you hate poor people?", which is analogous to the famous wife-beating question/accusation. A more challenging charge is "Well, WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING!", but in the end still an assertion devoid of substance. Maybe this is why the Solicitor General had such a hard time defending it.



We're done making arguments. It's time to fight it. It's time to beat Obamacare to death by any means. And we will do it with joy, hope and a raucous sense of humor. "And they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them."