A natural reaction to hearing that new U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez is making prosecuting “obscenity” cases a top priority of his tenure might be to say “there go those Nazis again, attacking free speech.” And you wouldn’t be in the wrong to do so. But that puts you in an undesirable position politically, since defending free speech is often an exercise in defending the basest degenerates the human race has to offer (as a degenerate smut addict and foul-mouthed hate-invoking curmudgeon, I thank you for your efforts). Maybe a better reaction would be to ask “How does an attorney general who spends his time going after two-bit sleaze merchants have time to prosecute the murderers who attacked our country?” If the FBI and the CIA and all the other intelligence bureaus are as fucked up as they supposedly are, shouldn’t every ounce of energy be dedicated to getting them back to speed on what’s important rather than wasting time pandering to the Republican electoral base? Sounds to me like Alberto is too much of a weakling to do his real job, so he needs to create a distraction. I wish he’d been born in Mexico rather than San Antonio, Texas, because now it’s inaccurate to make a “Mexican’t” joke.