Things that make sense — NOT!

A left-wing writer for the Washington Post tries to make the case that the Tea Party is Neo Confederate:

The New Confederacy, as churlish toward President Obama as the Old Confederacy was to Lincoln, has accomplished what its predecessor could not: It has shut down the federal government, and without even firing a weapon or taking 620,000 lives, as did the Old Confederacy’s instigated Civil War.

Not stopping there, however, the New Confederacy aims to destroy the full faith and credit of the United States, setting off economic calamity at home and abroad — all in the name of “fiscal sanity.”

Its members are as extreme as their ideological forebears. It matters not to them, as it didn’t to the Old Confederacy, whether they ultimately go down in flames. So what? For the moment, they are getting what they want: a federal government in the ditch, restrained from seeking to create a more humane society that extends justice for all.

The ghosts of the Old Confederacy have to be envious.

I don’t know whether they’d be envious, but they they might be puzzled over the fact that people objecting to socialized health care and demanding budgetary constraints are considered analogous to secessionist slave holders who attacked Fort Sumter and fought a long war with hundreds of thousands of casualties.

A well-known social conservative activist claims that if the definition of marriage is changed (which he claims would occur if gay marriage becomes legal), then everything in the Bible is in danger:

Speaking to the anti-LGBT group Illinois Family Institute (IFI) on Friday, Carson explained that the Bible compares the relationship between Jesus Christ and his followers to a marriage.

“Think about the implications of that,” he said. “When people come along and try to change the definition of marriage, they are directly attacking the relationship between God and his people.”

“And that’s the reason it’s so important for them to change the definition, because if you can get rid of that, you can get rid of everything else in the Bible too,” Carson warned.

Really? I didn’t know that belief in the Bible was dependent on the definition of marriage, much less than whether allowing gay marriage changes the definition of marriage any more than Old Testament polygamy did. I thought belief in the Bible was a personal thing, up to the individual.

(No word on whether the contradiction between evolution and Noah’s Ark also “got rid of” everything else in the Bible.)

A United States Congresswoman is making allusions about how martial law somehow enables federal legislation.

Really? Please explain. I’m all ears!

And as if that wasn’t enough, there is also (apparently) an effort to get rid of football:

…President Obama waded into the debate. “If I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,” he said. He also called for football “to reduce some of the violence.” Others have called for a more dramatic solution: Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author of The Tipping Point and other books, thinks football should go the way of dogfighting. He would like to see America’s favorite sport run out of polite society.

So football’s future is uncertain. But the past may offer important lessons. After all, football’s problems today are nothing compared to what they were about a century ago: In 1905, 18 people died playing the sport. Football became embroiled in a long-running dispute over violence and safety—and it was almost banned through the efforts of Progressive-era prohibitionists. Had these enemies of football gotten their way, they might have erased one of America’s great pastimes from our culture. But they lost—and it took the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt to thwart them.

People have silly ideas all the time. It would be nice if this country became a place where they couldn’t gain traction.