O, it was a painful year

So why do I revisit this clip? Because I can't look away. It's just funny. To hear George Allen defend the "macaca" incident, you'd think he was one of the original Freedom Riders. Happily, Allen paid for his bigotry. The opponents of Harold Ford, down in my native Tennessee, did not pay for theirs.

Neither did the promoters of Wisconsin's hateful same-sex marriage ban. Now that a little time has passed, I find myself feeling more angry about it, not less. Except when I feel simply hurt and humiliated.