This is semi-serious.

I am upset about Susan Rice, a fellow hooter-toter who makes my iPad look dumb.  The Republican Party did not help themselves by giving her the opportunity to look like a class act by forcing her out.

They went after her with vitriol generally reserved for those they believe to be terrorist sympathizers, which admittedly, to them is anybody other than white Republican old males.   I guess what bothers me the most is the loss of the visual of her beating Lindsey Graham so hard that his grandchildren will be born afraid to open their mouths.

Madeleine Albright calls it appalling.  It is.

On the other hand, Susan Rice has become an icon for women and minorities about where they stand with old white Republican men.  I hope this message trickles down to young Republicans, but I doubt it will.  There’s something about a closed mind.

Little Friday story – I had a son at MD Anderson Cancer Hospital.  One day a local Republican came to visit him and stayed to chat.  My son’s primary care doctor showed up.  He’s an Italian citizen and had a charming heavy accent.  Next the pain control doctor came by – he’s African American.  The nurse was Filipino and then the specialist dropped by – a woman on loan from Russia.  Shift change — gay Hispanic nurse.

The Republican visitor expressed surprise.  He said, “Your doctors are from all over, but yet MD Anderson is still ranked the #1 cancer hospital in the country.”

My son smiled and replied, “Maybe it’s because of the diversity that it’s #1, not in spite of it.”

Republicans just don’t get it.