Jerry Falwell Dies

When I was at in school at Dartmouth, I once paid one dollar to attend a speech (in the hockey rink no less) in which Jerry Falwell quoted George Gallup from Readers Digest. That was one wasted dollar! Falwell was a blowhard; he was hostile, ignorant, disconnected, and intolerant. The perfect poster boy for the regressive human instinct to form a tribe and to call down God's wrathful and destructive vengeance on one's enemies. And I think he wanted to have sex with men, too, since he talked about it so much. I am only a little ashamed to say that when I saw the headline of his demise a few minutes ago, my immediate response was an emphatic 'yessssss!'

What a weak, predictable, afraid, and insipid man he was, unable to hold contrary ideas in his head, and unable to see other people except with the desire to preach to them or kill them. Unfortunately, I am afraid that others will rise up to take his place.

Happy hosting, satan!