Maybe I’ll start a new Friday feature here at the
Tempest…Top Ten Ironies of the Week. This past week has been chocked full,
maybe not ten but why don’t I just start typing and see how far I get:
1. One
of the most enthusiastic responses to the Supreme Court decision to overturn
DOMA came from former President Bill Clinton. Who signed DOMA into law in the
first place? Bill Clinton.
2. Paula
Deen loses her television show because she used the “N” word in a private legal
deposition. Meanwhile Jay-Z and Kanye West get a Grammy nomination for Best Rap
Performance for their song, “Niggas In Paris” which contain this heartfelt lyrical
masterpiece, “So I ball so hard muhfuckas wanna find me, first niggas gotta
find me.”
3. Although
gay rights advocates have always cast their struggle as a civil rights issue, President
Obama, after the DOMA ruling reassured nervous pastors and priests with this, “I
won’t be forcing churches to perform gay marriages”. Imagine President Johnson
coming out after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed and saying, “Now, I’m
not going to be forcing the local Waffle House to serve blacks”. No, not quite civil rights.
4. On
the same week as Paula Deen loses her television show and is publically shamed
on the Today Show by Matt Lauer, Anthony Weiner, who less than a year ago
shared pictures of his manhood to young women on the internet, surged ahead in
polls for the Mayor’s race in New York City. Apparently a picture is worth a
thousand votes in New York.
5. How
come a couple of years ago when Congressmen were humiliated by loud and
sometimes rude questions in town hall style meetings with their constituents by
Tea Party types over Obamacare, the Nancy Pelosi’s of the world called them an
angry mob, but this week, when an equally loud and disruptive mob interrupted a
vote on an abortion bill by the duly elected representatives of the State of
Texas, the same Nancy Pelosi declared it “democracy in action”?
Ok, I only came up with 5, but its 7:30 in the
morning and I have a physical therapy appointment in an hour. You’ll have to
come up with the other 5 on your own.
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