Posted on July 20th, 2005 by Gavin M.
From Salvage (in comments), we find this startling item, showing that…
Yeah yeah, John Roberts, Karl Rove. No, you don’t understand: Today was the day we learned that Wingnutosis, that dread bacillus in the body politic, that cruel leveler of mind and spirit — is curable. (Apparently even Supercalifragilistic Extra-Wingnutosis.) Check this from Kyle Williams’s blog. This is in addition to earlier revelations, below.
Yow. Clearly there’s a twistier, more challenging road of faith and reason ahead for Kyle than expected, after his having been home-schooled all his life and groomed as a conservative spokesman since the age of 13 or so. But there also seems to be a decent, principled guy under that bad haircut — and the haircut might even work in a slightly retro indie-rock kind of way, given the right wardrobe, one has to imagine. Or perhaps that’s generous. And maybe it (not the haircut) also has something to do with the evangelicals souring on the GOP after a particularly bait-and-switchy election season.
And yes, we know — John ‘the Dread Pirate’ Roberts. But the reaction to his nomination in Evangelical Wingnutistan is pretty blah so far, what with the rollingest of the rollers having, it seems, expected the prophet Jeremiah to be named to the bench, and the court forthwith to declare the Constitution unconstitutional, and Jesus’s picture to be on the dollar bill, and all that sort of thing.
But even so, the thing with Kyle makes one wonder what changed, what the pivotal moment might have been. Did Satan appear with a sulfurous bang, saying, “Behold: a Heritage Foundation fellowship. This kingdom, Kyle, is yours,” and was Kyle like, “Uh-oh — it’s Satan. This really says a bunch”…
Well, we won’t know until we ask him. Details as they, etc.