Some Thoughts on Family by Dennis Miller

In Washington sometime back, a special twelve-person committee was formed to address the problem of teenage pregnancy. You know, there used to be a two-person committee that handled that, it was parents.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but family life has never been the Saturday Evening Post cover the conservative right would have us believe it once was. I mean, where's the Norman Rockwell painting entitled"Son Announces He's Gay over Easter Ham," or "I Saw Mommy Soul-Kissing the Sparkletts Guy," or the classic "Menendez Brothers Give Their Parents a 22-Caliber Explanation As to Why They Didn't Want to Eat Their Vegetables"?

Y"know, when we look to politicians for answers, what do we get? They parrot the phrasr "family values." "Family values has become a bigger catchall than the front of Rush Limbaugh's shirt after an all you can eat nacho blowout. It's been pounced on to promote school prayer and decry film and TV violence and end the welfare state and attack single mothers. Intrestingly enough the dogs who bark the loudest about family values---Dole, Gingrich, Gramm---all left their wives. Put that little nugget in your irony hookah and smoke it. These people should pay attention to their own lives and stop trying to run the lives of others.
Newt Gingrich had an affair while married to his first wife, who had been his high school math teacher, a woman he divorced while she was recuperating from cancer surgery, and then he had to be pursued for adequate child support. Talk about the putz calling the kettle black.
More to come.