Trying To Keep Up With The Stupid Makes My Head Hurt

Trying to remain focused on such things as the war/occupation of Iraq; the various, almost daily outrages of the Bush Administration; some kind of positive statement about my always-evolving ideas on the Christian faith - it's almost impossible because the right just keeps throwing stuff out there, hoping it will stick, sucking the oxygen out of the public sphere enough so that the dying can continue apace, the Constitution can be shredded even further in the name of partisan power, etc.

Sometimes, though, you want to laugh to keep from crying.

Media Matters for America has a report on a FoxNews special on an Air America Radio show called FreeThought Radio, teased with the question:

"War on God?"

I realize there are 24 hours of television air time to fill. I realize that FoxNews has a demographic that would have to replace their pacemaker batteries just reading such a teaser. I realize that the very notion of thinking for oneself is so far outside the minds of those who both produce and consume FoxNews as to be quite unimaginable.

These people are desperate. Truly. Flailing. From "phony soldiers" being touted by a bunch of cowardly draft dodgers to the hate-filled stalking of a family advocating for public policy to, now, the very notion that a radio program is some threat to the Creator of the Universe just boggles the mind.

These people are just nuts.