Tony; the other one

I don’t usually watch broadcast TV, so my recent incursion into the genre is allowing me to connect dots between things that I have read about and certain talking heads.

Last night this bloke named Tony Jones on the ABC interviewed this absolute corker of a nutter from some religious loopy corner of a rabbit hole in the US of A.

Why this was deemed a good use anybody’s time, who knows? Bloody entertaining though.

This bloke, Tony, is supposedly one of our better TV journalists. If so, we are in trouble.

The nutter was anti gay marriage for a number of reasons but primarily because children apparently should have both a mother and a father as parents. And the mother and father should be female and male, respectively (implied but not stated).

The interviewer didn’t point out that gay people in Australia already have the right to have and bring up children, so using this point as an argument against gay marriage is totally fallacious.

Yada … they all seem to be in a logic free bubble anyway. I don’t know why they bother even making up any excuses to support their prejudices. It’d be much easier and far more effective to just say ‘we don’t like it’.

At which point I would thank them for their honesty and tell ’em I don’t give a shit what they like or don’t like. And I don’t. (To Dave’s point I am usually polite about this. Ohmmmm).

This morning some woman told me that she didn’t like me locking up my bike where I currently let it sit overnight. I told her quite honestly that I don’t care what she thinks and rode off. (OK that wasn’t polite but trust me she’s trouble. I can tell. This was a considered initial incursion designed to cut off her potential rampaging campaign).

Rude in one context, sure. But if you give these people some air they seem to add fuel and start a fire. There are times when that is not advisable.