I’m Not Feeling You

So I tried to be kind of above the fray on Jesse Helms dying, gently pointing out that even though I’m sad when anyone dies, his position on funding AIDS and AIDS prevention was basically “if you have it, you deserve it” and we shouldn’t forget that. Then Elizabeth Dole introduced an amendment (which didn’t pass) to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after him. By that logic, when I die, I expect there to be a “Sam Saltz award for not thinking Elizabeth Dole is a piece of shit.” It would be equally ironic.

For some reason, in addition to making me hate her, this whole thing also makes me hate him more. So fuck it, I’m glad Jesse Helms is dead. Unrepentant racist, homophobic, fuck.