The Horrible Truth?

Mark Morford's Boy Scout leader was Jim West. Yes, that in-the-closet-gay-hatin' Republican Jim West. His column this week is relatively free of snark as he runs down his history with West. But I think he hits on a good point, one which Bill Hicks made as well.

And someone should really do a national, once-and-for-all study to back up what everyone already knows -- which is, of course, that the more repressed and sanctimonious and uptight you are about sex and love and gender and religion, the more likely you are to be involved in secret kink, in deep perversion, illegal perversion, perversion that crosses the line from healthy and slippery and delicious to degrading and morally reprehensible and Karl Rove. Just ask -- did I say this already? -- the Catholic Church.

Yeah, yeah...painting with a broad brush. Just do the study and then watch them all say "numbers lie" until they are blue in the face.