Integrity v. Hypocrisy

By Zamboni

We cats are impressed that the Phoenix Suns chose to protest Arizona's abominable immigration law by wearing their "Los Suns" jerseys in their playoff game with San Antonio last night.

Good for them. This is a team that could have easily just shut up and played basketball. After all, most of their state is in favor of the law.

Then, of course, there are some people whom we admire, um, not so much.

Cases in point: The guys on the right-wing side of the aisle who demonize homosexuals but who — unfailingly, it seems — end up being revealed as rather light in the loafers themselves. Two of these idiots have crossed our computer screens in the last 24 hours alone.

The first one was Christian wingnut George Rekers, who took a "rent boy" on a trip with him to Europe. The second was a 67-year-old white supremacist, Richard Barrett. The man accused of murdering him has testified that Barrett propositioned him.

While we're grimly amused by such ironies, we always find them a little depressing. It would be great if all the right wingers who are agonizing over their sexual orientation would just work it out in private — and leave the rest of us, not to mention the country's laws, alone.

Ah, well. We'd rather spend today throwing PURRS at the Phoenix Suns. It's difficult to define class, but we cats know it when we see it.