Let's Keep It Nice for a Change

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I just watched the ceremony where Billy Graham's body was brought to the US Capitol to lie in honor. The minister, known as "America's pastor," is the fourth "civilian" to lie in honor at the Capitol (the other three being Rosa Parks and the two policemen who died in the 1998 Capitol shooting). It was a very sweet and moving ceremony. And, for once, all those clowns in Washington seemed to be getting along for a moment. Let's see if we can keep it nice, for a change. I seriously doubt it. When the news of Graham's death was announced last week somebody wrote an article calling him a piece of excrement (although she didn't use the word excrement), and closed her, ahem, "tribute" by saying, "Have fun in hell, b*tch." Is this where we are as a country? A good man dies; and, instead of saying something like, "I didn't agree with his religious beliefs, but he was a good, honest man who was above reproach," someone (a number of people, actually) take the lower-than-a-snake's-belly route. Maybe it's the fact that we don't have many good, honest men who are above reproach in the public eye anymore, and that throws people off kilter. Whatever the reason, the person who could speak evil of a man who tried to do nothing but good has more issues than Billy Graham ever did. Theme song for the day: