Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me I Can't Say Stupid Things About the Gays

By now, even those of you are so cut off from the outside world that you are reading Swampland on your holiday have probably heard about Tim Hardaway's bone-shatteringly stupid explication re: the gays:

"You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States.''

As my former colleague at Deadspin says, these comments are "so over the top that it's almost hard to be offended by them; it's like getting angry at a dog for not being able to juggle." But, still, Hardaway did have to apologize. Or, uhm, not apologize:

"There are more important things to worry about than my comments. We should be more concerned about President (George) Bush and all the people dying in Iraq."

Right, Tim, especially since none of those people dying in Iraq are gay*. Though, uh, it might help if they were.

Seriously, though, even the gay-bashers are anti-war now. AND TOBY KEITH. And I think I saw Barney checking out Andrew Sullivan's blog the other day...

*Referring to the U.S. military, where "don't ask, don't tell" has worked so very well. That there are all kinds of civilians who have died is tragically unarguable.