Leftovaries

Like a blast from the past, about 30 KKKers demonstrated while hiding behind a National Park Service barricade on the battlefield at Gettysburg today. They made it known that they don't like blacks, gays, Jews, or Latinos.

One guy got cited for trying to wave a rainbow flag in their faces, and the A.P. story of the event says "Confederate re-enactors from Virginia protested the Klan's adoption of the Confederate battle flag as an emblem and its claim to be a continuance of the Confederate cause. Representatives of the national Sons of Confederate Veterans also came to protest the Klan's efforts to identify with the Confederacy."

Speaking as a gay Jewish man of Ethiopan ancestry whose grandparents immigrated to Mexico and whose parents brought me to the U.S. -- O.k., just kidding, but these guys do make me a little nervous. I'm glad there are so few of them.

But truth be told, the KKK's don't make me as nervous as corporate bean-counting androids in gray suits who go to church and speak proper English and join the Rotary Club and are always saying interesting things like "Pass the potatoes, please," or "We have to do whatever needs to be done to fight terrorism."

The KKK's are more likely to use crude cuss words, dip snuff, fart, scratch their pits, drive rusty pickup trucks, burn rubbish, raise pigs in the city, and shoot trespassers. There's a certain comfort in that.

Still, I'm curious: who do the KKK's vote for?