Big day today. Germany – US match in the World Cup. I could start to be a football fan, that was some spectacular play this morning in the little bit I got to watch. Who to root for now if the US loses? Ireland’s out, England just lost to Brazil. I suppose we’ll have to cheer for the Fatherland and hope they go all the way.
Meanwhile, in Washington, DC (the happiest place on earth) the Supreme Court has been handing out decisions left and right. Chief among these are a federal ban on executing the mentally retarded. Part of the reasoning seems to be that retards cannot be held to the same standards of responsibility for their actions as the rest of us. Isn’t that a lovely thing to know? Now we’ll have stupid people running about willy-nilly doing whatever they like without the least concern for, don’t you know? We’re not as responsible as you are. Fooey. Just wait until the bleeding hearts spin this one out to its logical end, you had absolutely better treat the retarded as normal people, that is don’t talk down to them, don’t offer help or patronize them or single them out in any way but by God if they kill someone they had better be treated as different from everyone else.
Cake and eat it too anyone?