No, Chivalry Is Not Dead

I beg to disagree with the writer who calls the death of chivalry  the clarion call announcing the death of society. If society is dying a terminal death it is not due to a lack of civility and chivalry. It is because a small, but loud and obnoxious crowd is saying things that are not true and are doing so in a rude manner that would be called by better folk lying if they were less polite.

Yes, I speak of my family which is polite and whose daily actions are based on the code of chivalry and I also speak of the actions of a wide swath of people that I see in my travels. The lady who is struggling who welcomes the help of a stranger. The Muslim who helped others in the wake of 9/11 and received in return support because they deserved it. The person who risked their life to save another from a burning car. The young man who kept the smile on his face as a woman strolled through an opened door without so much as a smile let alone a thank you. The woman who kept her tongue as a political elite questioned her femininity because she dared to disagree.

There has always been and always will be those that deny the society who has given them much and has allowed them to become who they are, but, in the end, the arbiters of bad manners, bad taste and bad society will not win. They may not know this because society is too polite to point out just how tragically wrong they are, but to them the game is never really over. If it were what would they have to do with their lives?

It's All About Clinton And Sex Again

So Sanford has come clean. Alas, another Republican has fallen and the vultures are laughing their heads off as the eat the corpse.

Update: It wasn't about Clinton having sex with Lewinsky. It was about the fact that Clinton lied under oath. It is also a fact that "Lewinski" is now a noun and a verb.

I was always taught to hate the sin, but love the sinner. You can bet I'm hoping that is true.

Sanford, Ensign, others and I'm betting there will be more, have disgraced themselves. They have also disgraced the party of family values. This disgrace is all the more bad because family values is what is keeping the party together since we forfeited that whole fiscal responsibility thing. Without the coalition of family values the Republican Party would lose so badly that Obama would start looking center of the road on policy.

The vultures are justified in trying to use these actions as a wedge to split the Republicans. Heck, there are republicans trying to justify reshaping the party by dumping the family values coalition. They are morons.

To no doubt bolster their credibility these vultures focus their attacks in vulgar terms meant to shock. They are completely incapable of understanding that we are already shocked. How could they understand that in which they do not believe.

More than shocked, we are saddened. Saddened for the families, saddened for the loss of morality in this country and saddened that men of such great promise showed, in the end, no promise of greatness.

They defend politicians such as Clinton and Frank and laugh out loud at men like Sanford because they believe the only thing these people did wrong was get caught.

Prop 8 As A Prop For Victimhood

via Have Coffee Will Write

I don't read Randy Andy Sullivan and his daily dish of aging Pan endemic and the necessity of the world to bow to what he believes is inevitable. It's a little like giving a great aunt the platform of Thanksgiving dinner to once again attempt to prove that identifying criminals by secret license plates would have prevented that ghastly man from approaching her to do who knows what back when she was on the fast track to become President of the Coals To Newcastle Debate Club. It ruins the dinner.

Dissents Of the Day
So, just to help you think about this a little more clearly: Prop 8 stands for the idea that we could put on the ballot tomorrow the question of whether Catholics could marry. We could also put on the ballot the question of whether someone with HIV could vote or own property. We could put on the ballot the question of whether Mexican catholics can be discriminated against in housing or employment.

Or, perchance, preventing activists from sullying good traditions by twisting logic onto its ear to achieve what they otherwise could not.

HCWW tagged the post with:

If Proposition 8 is allowed to stand, who do they come for next?

Eternal victimhood status for all coming to your life courtesy of a persecuting society!