Genealogy gone wild

Not to turn all petulant blogger here, but why, pray tell, are all the major news sources indulging Ann Coulter with attention to her latest illogical, inutile and incendiary play to grab headlines and sell books by railing on Sept. 11 widows to Matt Lauer when we've got a U.S. senator making illogical, inutile and incendiary statements on the job?

The truly Honorable Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., stood up on the Senate floor Tuesday to add to the so-called debate on the gay marriage amendment with an enlarged photo of his family and shared this vital piece of information with his colleagues and his (no doubt grateful) nation:

"As you see here, and I think this is maybe the most important prop we'll have during the entire debate, my wife and I have been married 47 years. We have 20 kids and grandkids. I'm really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we've never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship."

And here I thought the "Vote for me–I figured out how to procreate, so running the country will be a snap!" campaign ads featuring candidates' families were bad.

Even if this had anything at all to do with anything remotely pertinent or deserving of further discussion, asininity of this astronomical degree is a far worse thing to have blighting your family tree, on or off the record.

If this is what comes crawling out of a morally pristine gene pool, the used band-aids suspended in most of ours don't look quite so disgusting.