Bush backer boosts book banning, burying

State -- Alabama, anyway -- funds shouldn't be used to "promote" homosexuality, so authors such as Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker have got to go, says this state senator. Feeling a mandate from the "moral values" un-landslide of November, he wants to "save society from moral destruction" and "protect Alabamans."

That's America talking, people. Not the America I live in, and maybe not yours either. But they are the bare majority, and we can't pretend anymore, like in 2000, that they aren't. Deal with it.