When this nation required a humble Secretary of Defense — we got Rumsfeld. When we wanted a legal scholar at the Justice Department, we got the tort-meister of torture, Alberto Gonzales. When a soothing voice was necessary to repair America’s tattered image, Bush sent John Bolton — a man with the diplomatic touch of Napalm — to the United Nations. Now, Bush is poised to make us the laughingstock of the world by nominating Dr. Discrimination as the nation’s top doctor.

So Bush wants to nominate a creepy guy to be Surgeon General of the United States. The man is under the impression that homosexuality can be cured.

I wonder if he thinks ignorance can be cured. If so, he might have to send himself off to a camp.