As a matter of fact, sir, I DO question your morality

I try not to think about Pat Boone, in the same way that one tries not to think about rotting corpses, earthquake devastation, and the inside of Lynne Cheney's brain. But every once in a while, his ugly name pops up and I am forced to consider his existence. Today is one of those days. Boone, writing in WorldNetDaily, says it is perfectly okay for him to question your patriotism if you engage in "...wild-eyed, irresponsible assaults on the character and intelligence and personal motives of our commander-in-chief while we're in a war and trying to hold our allies at our side...."

The statement is so ludicrous--questioning one's right to criticize an ignorant, lying, democracy-bashing war criminal--one need not respond to it. But as long as Boone is opening his filthy mouth again, forcing me to think about him, then I will remind my readers that Boone, in addition to stealing black music and torturing it to death, was an extremely rigid parent whose family members, not surprisingly, had a variety of psychological problems. Years ago, I read the autobiography of one of his daughters, who--still too much in denial to totally realize what she was describing--wrote that her father used to take off her underwear, put her on his lap, and spank her--when she was 17 years old. That is a reportable crime and just one more reflection on what really goes on in the homes of the compulsively religious.

You may recall that a couple of years ago (has it been that long?), Boone called CBS "the enemy within" for releasing information about Abu Ghraib.

Weren''t "Tutti Frutti" and the "metal" album bad enough? Talk about torture.