Hate Crimes

A couple of gay dudes got beat up after dining at a Scottsdale steakhouse, according to this story. (Hope you're both healing quick, guys, and that the doc gave you lots and lots of good drugs.)

The men, Jean Rolland and Andrew Frost, were attacked because they're gay. That sucks, and it's really really wrong on so many levels. Who a man is playing hide the salami with is no one's business but his own.

And it's good they reported the crime, because I'm sure they were tempted to just slink off and stay outta the glaring spotlight of the media.

That's all a very long introduction to today's topic. I don't understands this whole thing about designating some crimes as "hate crimes." Seriously. Can anyone point to any crimes committed out of love?

Didn't think so. (No, "crimes of passion" don't count. That's not love. It's being a jealous asshole who can't control his temper.)

I MAYBE get designating crimes by motive, because knowing why someone did what they did could be somewhat helpful in figuring out how to keep them from doing it again, or how to keep other people from doing it.

But punishing them more severely for their motive? I'm not sure I get that.

I mean, is a man's wife any more or less dead if he killed her for the insurance money, or because he caught her getting a deep dicking from the pool boy? Are these gay fellows any more or less beat up because they got clobbered for holding hands instead of to steal their fabulous wrist watches?

I'm a fan of long prison sentences for all mean, violent assclowns. Maybe we could just leave it at that.

And just to put the whipped cream on the Chocolate... er, the conversation, I urge you to watch this video of a rather flamboyant soccer official.