Yes, that loathsome little motherfucker is probably a Christian.

(Bear with me for a minute here because we're not quite going in the direction you think.)

Well, that was thoroughly predictable -- it's not that ex-GOP congressman Mark Foley was a serial, sexual predator, it's that those pages were just having some good-natured fun at the expense of the poor faggot. But that's not why we're here.

What caught my eye was this bit by hillbilly heroin addict Limbaugh:

I've been thinking more about the prank aspect of this, and let me be honest. We all know kids, folks, and we all were kids once, and many of us kids thought certain adults were geeks, were just odd, and we loved making fun of them. Many of them in my life were teachers. I would be embarrassed to tell you some of the pranks that I did. I mean, a bunch of my buddies and I actually stole our shop teacher's cow, just put it in a different field. We didn't steal it and take it. We just put it in a different pasture.

Back in these days you could call Sears and order a refrigerator on the phone. I had a teacher living up the street and it was the biggest thrill in the world to just call and order a refrigerator and watch Sears deliver it to an unsuspecting teacher and his wife, and far stranger things than that.

Well, sure, as kids, we all indulged in a little harmless tomfoolery, but most of us realized there were limits. Ordering a fridge from Sears and having it delivered to the butt of your joke? That goes a bit beyond funny -- that seems to cross over into downright mean, given the inconvenience to everyone else involved. I don't find that particularly funny. I find it cruel.

And you get the impression that that's just the tip of the iceberg for Limbaugh, who admits that he did "far stranger things than that." "Stranger?" Or meaner? It's certainly not hard to imagine that the "morals and values" right-wing blowhard Limbaugh was a nasty bit of work as a kid, but would that really surprise you? After all, there seems to be a real pattern here.

You remember the staunchly conservative, God-fearing Senator "Macaca," right? Not surprisingly, Allen also has a long history of being a total thug, even to members of his own family. It sure does look like being a vicious, right-wing, racist bully starts young, doesn't it?

And, of course, let's not forget Mr. Compassionate Conservatism, U.S. President George W. McFucktard who, as a kid, really seemed to have it in for the rest of God's creation:

"We were terrible to animals," recalled [Bush pal Terry] Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush borne turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. "Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them," Throckmorton said. "Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up."

Oh, yes, George was a real piece of work as a youngster, wasn't he?

There sure does appear to be a pattern here, doesn't there? Scratch a right-wing grownup, and it seems that, more likely than not, you'll find one of those nasty little bullies who, as a child, used to delight in taunting and torturing all the other kids on the playground, and would take every opportunity to be cruel to helpless animals.

Apparently, those little fuckers never really grow up. They just find a bigger playground, and continue being cruel to a whole new, helpless demographic that can't protect itself.

Some things never really change, do they?