If we don’t do something, the nuts say we’ll rue it. We need their support. So how to accrue it? A ban on gay marriage would certainly do it. We know that can’t pass, but let’s strongly pursue it. It’s all just a scam, and we all always knew it. We think they’re so dumb that they’ll never see through it.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”