Mixed in with the stories surrounding Mitt Romney’s impish desire to join the Pro-Am Homo-Hating Coiffeur Tour is a less-reported story from his rap sheet. It’s not as pregnant with prankish, homophobic cheer, but it reveals the mind of a man who is utterly clueless about how the rest of his species lives.
Kids do stupid things. Sometimes they know no better. Other times Mom and Dad don’t teach them right from wrong because they’re morons who don’t know right from wrong either. And sometimes, kids are just evil seeds. Yes, kids do stupid and inexplicable things. It is the way of the world.
I sympathize with Kenlie Tiggeman, really I do. She is the BBW who recently found herself at the Dallas Southwest Airlines counter being told she needed an extra seat because she was a little more zaftig than the standard airliner milk crate could accommodate.
We’re a country that believes the notion that more is better and that competition trumps everything. But, we’re also one of the most charitable nations on Earth. Some of us anyway.
There is an immutable fact about history – if you weren’t there, if you didn’t personally know and speak to the history makers, you can have no irrefutable, complete evidence of their intent. You can know concrete things, like dates. But at some level you can’t know, beyond a shadow of doubt, everything they thought, and more importantly, why.