Introducing The Golden Ignoranus Award

In an effort to streamline my otherwise protracted aggravation over whatever asinine, narrow-minded, bigoted, conservative, insular, intolerant, parochial, petty, prejudiced, provincial, reactionary, short-sighted utterance happens to be making its way through the news cycle, I've decided to exorcise my angst by bestowing a very special recognition to some very deserving douchebags. Allow me to unveil the Golden Ignoranus Award. A portmanteau of ignorant and anus, I think it adequately captures the head up the ass qualities required of award recipients.

And the very first Golden Ignoranus Award goes to... US General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a newspaper interview with the Chicago Tribune, Pace compared homosexual acts to adultery and said the military should not support it by allowing gays to serve in U.S. Army.

When Pace was asked about the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows gays and lesbians to serve if they keep their sexual orientation private and don't engage in homosexual acts the general said:

I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts... I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

Congratulations, General Pace. It takes a profoundly head-up-your-ass world-view to fire off those sentiments and then defiantly defend them with your alleged morals. And it's so satisfying to know that all my queer tax dollars have subsidized your rise to the top of the military pecking order.