what is the matter with Kansas, anyway?

No, this is not performance art. These fine folks, er, freaking idiots are members of a little Kansas church called Westboro Baptist. For fun, they like long walks to Wal-Mart, reading the bible, and harassing the families of fallen soldiers at said soldiers’ funerals.

The 75 or so members of the church—most of them related to the church’s pastor (no, I don’t know how)—travel all over the country to let one and all know that god struck down their loved ones for fighting to defend a country that “harbors homosexuals and adulterers.” They also showed up in Sago, WV, a couple of weeks ago, because god also apparently smites those that mine coal for a country that harbors homosexuals.

These children of the lord got their start menacing the families of AIDS victims—and no one paid them all that much never no mind—but now that they have broadened their wrath to include the armed forces, they’ve got over a dozen state legislatures doing constitutional back-flips trying to write laws that ban protests at funerals.

I can’t even begin to understand people that get some sort of perverse joy out of torturing folks on their worst day, let alone the logic that says an angry god doesn’t strike those that offend him, but instead kills off unrelated third parties, but, you know what, the joke’s on the Westboro boys (and girls). Those soldiers aren’t dying to protect a country that harbors homosexuals and adulterers—nope—they’re dying to protect the fragile ego of man-child George W. Bush and the wallet of sclerotic Veep Dick Cheney.

Ha. Ha.