Jerry Falwell is dead.

[changeyourstars8]

And I type that title with dry eyes.

It is weird, though. He was the first example I had of the Religious Right, what with reading Bloom County cartoons and Harlan Ellison essays about the Moral Majority as a kid. So it's strange to know that he's gone.

But this is the guy who blamed 9/11 on pagans, homosexuals, and feminists, so it's not exactly a bad kind of strange. My sympathies to his family, but I can't work up any for him.

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[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

It seems somehow proper that your comment link says, "Mourn the Wicked." Heh.

Yeah, I can't be sorry he's gone.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you've heard it said that we should not speak ill of the dead.

I think what is wrong is speaking falsely of the dead.

And saying anything nice about Falwell would be lying, so...