17 January 2006 @ 12:55PM >> The beauty of socialized medicine is that other people are forced to pay for your whims. In England, if you want a sex change—even if you’re currently in prison for attempted murder—the government will give you one, courtesy of the British taxpayer. But what happens if you decide that you preferred your original gender? No problem, you can go right back. And the taxpayers will pay for that, too.

17 January 2006 >> In a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King day, Ray Nagin, the Democratic mayor of New Orleans, chose an odd way to mark the occasion:

Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country. Surely he doesn’t approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses.

In the 2004 election, many Democrats accused Republicans of injecting God into the political debate. I guess God can be useful to Democrats as well, when used to bash America.