Keep on Rocking in the Free World, the Jeff Suppan edition

It's so easy to get so horrified by the current political state. I read about the racist ad in Tennessee against Harold Ford that the RNC decided was a good way to prey on people's fears of a black man to have sex with a white woman. Where have you gone, Harper Lee? I read about our own Michael Steele, who once compared stem cell research to the Nazis, call a heroic Michael J. Fox "in extremely poor taste" for starring in an ad supporting stem cell research (which, of course, the arch-conservative Steele does not). It makes me so upset and I don't know how to channel the anger...

... until I saw that Jeff Suppan (plus a bunch of other celebrities and sports figures, including the Everybody Loves Raymond bitch Patricia Heaton and KC Royal Asshole Mike Sweeney) starring in a political ad denouncing stem cell research in Missouri.

Suppan is starting against the Tigers tonight in Game 4 of the World Series. This just makes me want to kick his ass even more. Nothing like trotting out a bunch of able-bodied athletes to denounce research that could help people far less fortunate than them, to counteract the ads of a beloved cultural icon suffering from an incurable disease...

Speaking of which, isn't it something how Republicans just hate so much how celebrities get involved in politics, yet they're just fine with this sort of ad? The hypocrisy is just unbelievable. I mean, I never really understood why people get mad at celebrities for speaking about politics. If I ever were famous, I sure as hell hope I'd be gutsy enough to try to use my position for social change, and don't begrudge celebrities (either side, mind you) trying to do the same. Except when they're trying to force their religous views on others in a way that takes away what little hope some people have, of course. Have your religious beliefs, that's just fine. Just don't force the rest of us to follow them, or to not think you're being a a despicable human being for putting your views in front of things that might help people.

So, Go Tigers! Especially with that asshole Suppan on the hill. Tigers 9, Cards 1.

By the way, the only other outlet I seem to have lately for our sorry political state (every time I get optimistic about a Democratic sweep in two weeks, I read things like Steele being nearly even with Cardin despite being a crazy conservative or see that George Allen is still ahead in Virginia despite his obvious racism)is listening to really good, really political music. Here's one thing that helped me get through this afternoon's daily reading of Crooks and Liars: