Over the past week, I’ve received emails and texts from friends and family, asking if I’m alright, if I’m okay.

At first, I just thought it was the usual thing, the thing we’re all doing now as we sit at home, waiting out this virus: checking in on folks that we haven’t spoken to in a while. I know I’ve done it–emailed or texted or Facebook Messaged someone who crossed my mind. “Hey, just wanted to let you know I’m thinking about you. Hope you’re holding up well, and I hope to see you in person once all this mess is over.” That kind of thing.

But the calls I haven’t gotten haven’t been that. They’ve come from people who’ve been alarmed by media reports about New Orleans. Rats are swarming through the streets. Florida wants New Orleanians to stay home. So does Texas. And so on.

This is one of the calls I received. It’s from my mother (the adoptive one):

(Yes, she referenced Fox News.)

Now, just to be clear, we do have a problem in New Orleans–a big one. COVID-19 has been tearing through the city, and the percentage of people dying from the disease is higher here than in many places. (Whether that’s due to our medical infrastructure or the fact that the virus has popped up in 11 nursing homes, only time will tell.) Things are likely to get worse this week.

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Earlier today, I wrote an email to some of my students. A few of them had reached out to me with questions about what they should be doing–as citizens and as budding arts administrators–during this challenging, anxiety-ridden time.

I don’t have any definitive answers, but I have a few thoughts, which I’m sharing here for former students, peers in the cultural industry, or anyone else.

Let me be clear: I’ve never been through anything like this, but I’ve definitely been through crises in my life. And though every crisis is unique, our responses to crises tends to follow a common trajectory.

With that in mind, here are a few projections for the current calamity:

1. Life will return to normal. The return won’t be immediate. It will probably be touch and go for a bit. But the upside is that our infrastructure is still in place. After Hurricane Katrina, we weren’t so lucky: our grocery stores, our hospitals, our banks, our schools, all of that had to be rebuilt. That won’t be the case this go-round, but it will still take time for us to find our rhythm. Be patient. Take notes. It’ll help you if this should ever happen again.

2. The arts and culture sector will struggle for a while. Not only will the recovery be slow, but in any city that depends on tourism for revenue (including New Orleans), it will be slightly slower. Hotels will reopen, but guests will be sparse at first–mostly out-of-towners who’ve come to help with treatment and rebuilding. Restaurants will reopen, though probably with smaller staffs and limited menus. Bars will be fine. I mean, obviously. 

Cultural organizations will be important–people will look to them as signs of civic health–but we’ll probably be working with smaller staffs. People will guard their discretionary income until the economy stabilizes. Membership revenue won’t come back right away. However, events will be huge. Festivals, concerts, even galas: these are things that will make people feel normal, the things that will allow everyone to forget for just a minute the anxiety and the facemasks and the hoarding of hand sanitizer. Use them wisely

3. Our way of doing business in the arts and culture sector will shift. If you lived in New Orleans during Katrina, you know that we were hurled into the 21st century literally overnight. We learned to work remotely, to rely on laptops, to text. (Yes, Katrina made that happen for me and many others, way back when T9 messaging was pretty much all we had.) There will be a similar shift now. 

Organizations without strong online presences will change that fact, and fast. We will grow our communities on Facebook, Instagram, and whatever the next Facebook/Instagram might be. We will livestream, we will share our work in every way possible. For some of us, our work may live there so that we can continue to produce it wherever events may take us. 

Revenue will also shift. Contributed revenue will still be important, and there will be a number of special grants available to help arts and culture orgs get back on their feet. But some of our usual sources of support–individuals, foundations, and especially government agencies–will have other priorities. Earned revenue will fill the gaps. And if you’ve never had the opportunity to work on an endowment campaign, just wait. Prepare to get very, very creative.

4. Find partners. When resources are limited, duplication of effort is criminal. If you have spare office space, share it with others who don’t. (Perhaps they can contribute toward the utility bill.) If you have a staff member who’s a grantwriting whiz, loan them out to others (possibly for a fee, if the other org has funds for that). If you have a venue for a concert, a summer camp, a workshop, make it available–again, maybe there’s a fee involved, maybe there’s some bartering, or maybe it’s just for goodwill. The organizations that will handle recovery the best and prepare themselves for future crises are the ones that take this opportunity to deepen their relationships with partners.

5. You are needed now more than ever. This virus will do more damage to our communities than to the people who live in them. When the pandemic winds down, billions of people will have been isolated from friends, family, and coworkers. They’ll need to reacclimate to social life. They’ll need to be reminded how to live in a community.  

There are three things that build community: food, faith, and fun. You’re responsible for item #3. Make it happen. 

This isn’t a situation that any of us would’ve wanted, but it’s the hand we’ve been dealt. It may seem overwhelming, but here’s a trick to help you cope: focus on a task. Put your head down, do your work, and eventually, you’ll look up to find some improvements.

Head down, chin up!

When I was a kid, I dreamed of being contortionist in a traveling circus. The lights in the tent would dim as I strode into the center ring, wearing a rainbow-glitter unitard bedecked with sequins and appliques and copious amounts of cowboy fringe along the seams (all of which was 100% impractical for a contortionist, but my gay child daydreams demanded fashion at all costs).

Unlike the other performers in this imaginary circus, I wore a mask because–and this is a crucial plot point–I lived a double-life. By day, I was a goody-goody, straight-A student, but at night, I crept out of my house to become the Amazing Ricardo! (I was like eight or something. Cut me some slack.)

Wowing crowds with my unparalleled flexibility was a treat, but it was only half of the fantasy. The other half involved saving the lives of my classmates.

The whole scenario went something like this: the tent was packed and my entire class was sitting on the front row. I had just begun the aerial portion of my world-famous routine when criminals stormed in from every direction. I think they wanted folks to fork over their money and jewelry, but I can’t remember, and it’s not important anyway. What’s important is that (a) the thugs threatened to kill everyone in the place if we didn’t do as they said, and (b) they wanted me to hand over the money from the circus’ safe.

(I am fully aware that the premise is absurd. Why would a contortionist in costume know the combination to the circus’ cash box? Why wouldn’t the robbers speak to our CFO? Why would they rob a circus when they could just as easily knock over a department store or Spencer Gifts and make twice as much money? What was my entire class doing at the circus? At night, no less? Was it a field trip? How did I get out of it? And how was I able to maintain my double-life as a student and circus performer when by definition, a traveling circus travels? Had I hooked up with the only hodophobic circus in North America? Et cetera, et cetera, questions be damned.)

The thugs’ leader intended to rip me apart in front of everyone because I wouldn’t turn over the circus’ cash. He hung me this way and that, trying to extract the combination to the safe, had his men tie me up in knots. Of course–and here’s the payoff–I was a contortionist, so their abuse didn’t bother me a bit, but I pulled a total Br’er Rabbit anyway. I hammed it up with screams and occasional fainting, playing the role of torture victim to perfection. The gasps and squeals from the audience–which again, included every last one of my classmates–brought me far more pleasure than the crowd’s oohs and aahs would have during my usual show.

In retrospect, I suppose the whole thing was like a campy S&M scene you’d find in a big-budget (or low-budget) porn film. Which explains a lot.

Anyway, the daydream came to a glorious conclusion when the police charged into the tent and arrested the robbers. In front of everyone, the cops thanked me for enduring such extreme torture for as long as I did, because it gave them enough time to take out the bad guys. Everybody lived, the crooks went to jail, and I became a hero in front of my classmates–a huge self-esteem boost that this socially awkward, closeted gay Mississippi kid never got in real life.

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Of course, I never told my friends about daydreams like this one–I was far too embarrassed. But years down the line, I realized that every kid feels awkward and outcast as they work toward building an adult identity. John Hughes built a career from that wee fact. Ryan Murphy exploited it to no end in Glee. Heathers, Mean Girls, Dazed and Confused, A Christmas Story, Cinderella, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, fucking Spy Kids: nearly every movie about grade schoolers and high schoolers is a story of kids feeling like they don’t belong and paving their own way, triumphing over adversity or the head cheerleader or the school jock or whatever.

Would my childhood have been easier if I’d understood that at the time? Probably not. I might’ve been encouraged to tell close friends that I preferred Wonder Woman to Spiderman, or maybe even that I hated football. But admitting that I liked to kiss boys would’ve been like admitting that I liked to eat cockroaches or make out with my grandmother: not just different, but alien.

Mister Jacques likes his sleep. Tania and Sebastian stretch and shake and slip out of bed with me at 4am (I know, I know), but Jacques stays put, sensibly sprawled across our king/twin combo, somewhere on the quilted expanse between John and Peter.

Hours later, when the sun begins to warm the low, green house that shields our bedroom window from dawn’s earliest light, Jacques finally decides to greet the day. He shuffles to the kitchen, waiting beside the refrigerator for me to appear as I always, always do. “How does he know that I am here?” Jacques wonders, unfamiliar with the sense of sound, never guessing that the scratch-scratch-scratch of his paws across our scuffed wooden floors can be heard from the sidewalk. (Sebastian has the same gait. Maybe it’s a deaf thing.)

I could stay at my desk and wait for Jacques to find me, but I don’t. I can’t. Instead, I play it up in pantomime, popping through the kitchen door like a magician’s assistant appearing with a dramatic flourish at a half-assed talent show. It’s the kind of cornball sorcery that’s kept our relationship fresh after all these years.

Jacques wears a patiently bored expression while waiting for his “We survived the night!” treat—the most important treat of the day. I open the back door for him and eventually return to reading, but Jacques needs more than parlor tricks and pee breaks and regularly scheduled snacks to start his day. He needs scratches. Butt scratches. By the billions.

So, Jacques does what all dogs do: he leans against me and presents his ass, waiting for more magic. Depending on my mood, I half-heartedly rub or vigorously scratch the spot just above his tail, until I grow tired and try to go back to reading or writing or whatever I was doing before Jacques inserted himself into my day. But it’s far too late for that: I’ve already hit his switch. He’s on, and he needs more. An insatiable scratching bottom. He backs into me again, and again, and again, until I submit.

By now, Jacques has my full attention. I am as present as he is. I squat so that we can see eye to eye, my knees spread wide, almost to malasana. I meet him on his level as if to say that I see him as an equal, a partner, someone who will never abandon him, never hurt him the way his first owners did. I scratch for a few more minutes, thinking that he’ll eventually get enough, but no, not at all. His ecstasy escalates, 110 pounds of bones, muscle, and lipomas rutting against my chest, pinning me to the sofa, enraptured.

There is nothing to do but laugh and continue scratching. As I struggle to maintain balance, I ask Jacques, “And me, what do I get out of this?” He looks over his shoulder, his tongue licking the air in delight. And I think, “Yes, this is what I get.”

My name is Porter, and I’m fat. 

Go ahead, get it out of your system. I’ve heard it all before. Portly Porter. Porky Porter. Piggly Wiggly Pork Bun Porter. If you can come up with a new one, I might even laugh. 

But know this, Mister Scarecrow: my skin is thick. Blubber and scars make for excellent armor, strong as steel, impenetrable. 

this is a lie. my skin, my scars, my pounds of subcutaneous fat, visceral fat: they are armor, but they are not my defense. they are convenient but too obvious. 

no, my defense is more subtle and surprising: when my voice, my sass, my ass expand, they take up room, more room than me alone. they create a second skin–think of it as a force field–that hovers two hand-widths from my body. (i have measured it many times since the time i was a boy: two spans from pinky to thumb when both are extended, currently 18 inches.) it is not armor per se but padding. there is a difference.

when necessary, i slip quietly out of my massive body like the most delicate french exit and step into that faint buffer zone. that is where i hide. like semi-precious stones sewn into the lining of a peacoat by a second-rate smuggler, there i am. 

you are so busy looking at the apparent me, corpulent me, the flesh of me, the affected grandeur of me, that you look right past the real me. if you would only unfocus your eyes, look into the middle distance like you do in your yoga classes full of hungry, skinny people, you would see that i am still here, plain as day. except i am no emerald hidden in the lining of a clever coat. I am not even common chalcedony, cool and dull as the light of a waning moon. i am at best sea glass, manmade and rubbed smooth.  

And here’s the really important part: no matter how clever you think you are, no matter how skinny your jeans, how coiffed your hair, how ripped your abs, I win. I win. 

I win all the time comma motherfucker period.

I win at parties. I’m the life of ‘em. What have I got to lose? I don’t give a shit what people think, I say what’s on my mind, and people love it. 

Love. 

It. 

Honeyyyyyyyyyy.

an alternate metaphor suddenly occurs to me: you look at me and see the moon, but i am hidden in the regolith, the indistinct surface. i am not the man in the moon, visible on cloudless nights from any backyard on earth, but the man on the moon, easily overlooked unless you know to look for me. and even then you would need a telescope. 

between stitches or on the surface of a bulbous satellite, there i am hidden. there i cannot be touched, even when i am doing the touching. and yes, i often do the touching.

being in one place but pretending to be in two is a difficult illusion to maintain. it would be so easy to let it drop.

Yoo-hoo. Look over here, party animal.

I’m the one next to the chip bowl, encouraging you and your undernourished friends to touch a few carbs. I’m the one downing shot after shot of tequila or bourbon or whatever bullshit you’re drinking, and I drink you under the table every time. I’m no lightweight. I win.

And when the sun’s coming up and it’s time to go home, yes, I’m a winner then, too. I’m the one you’ll pick because you’re too afraid of being rejected, too worried about being shot down to put the moves on the other pretty boys and pretty girls. You’re skin and boners, I’m that and more. I’m the low-hanging fruit, the lowest of them all, as low as my standards, as fruity as a fruitcake. I can’t say no to anything, not even you. 

all that is true. i crave earthly delights. food, wealth, the touch of lovers: i do not deny myself anything. i am a glutton. it is my calling card and my achilles heel.

You want to shun me in front of your friends and sleep with me behind their backs? Laugh at me in public and shove me out the back door so no one knows that you’ve known the body of this fat, faggoty fuck? That’s fine with me. Have your cake and eat it, too. There’s plenty of cake to go around. 

the cleverest snail is the one that hides on the surface of its shell, not within it.

When my boyfriend Peter and I find ourselves on the sofa, silently sitting side by side, scrolling through whatever demands to be scrolled, he will occasionally turn to me with an image on his screen and ask me to explain it, to tell its story. Recently, he showed me this evocative pic, and this is the story I told him. (Obviously, it is not the actual story of @theduponttwins, who are lovely people, I’m sure.)

Side note: pictures have appreciated in value, it seems. This one is currently worth 2,326 words.

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Nicolae thought about the unruly mobs as he lay in bed with his eyes gently closed, pretending to sleep. He did not want to lie in bed and think about the mobs of course, but the one thing he wanted even less was to sit up for the next several hours, discussing the mobs with Elena. Her advice in such matters was usually pretty good, but even she acknowledged her tendency to err on the side of bloodlust.

Nicolae dreamt about the unruly mobs from 2:45am to 2:49am and again from 3:32am to 3:33am, but their second appearance was fleeting, so he didn’t recall it when scribbling in his dream journal. If he had, he might have seen the writing on the wall.

Nicolae awoke after seven hours and 59 minutes. Under normal circumstances, that would have enraged him, given his obsession with getting a perfect eight hours of sleep. (The seed of that obsession was planted by his mother, a poor, unlettered shepherdess who was  also one of the great undiscovered beauties of her time and correctly believed that sleep had a more powerful effect on one’s appearance than any cosmetic ointment, cream, or salve.) These, however, were not normal circumstances. Nicolae was awakened by a senior aide whispering in his ear.

When an aide awakens a callous, capricious, sleep-obsessed tyrant sixty seconds ahead of the tyrant’s well-established schedule, the aide rarely bring good news. After hearing the updates from overnight, Nicolae scowled at the aide and ordered coffee to be brought up. He gave no thought to sleep patterns ever again.

While this was happening, Elena lay on the other side of the bed with her eyes gently closed, pretending to be asleep. A lifelong morning person, she had been wide awake for the better part of an hour, but the last thing she wanted was to endure Nicolae’s early-morning wishy-washiness. He was much more decisive after lunch.

Sitting at a small table that the couple had received from a family friend after he was named president of the state council, Nicolae wrote down his dreams as best he could remember (which, as we have said, was not good enough) and considered his options vis a vis the aforementioned mobs. On the one hand, he thought, change was in the air. On the other, he thought, fuck change.

When the coffee arrived, it was bitter and cold.

By sundown that same day, eight days before Christmas, Nicolae had given The Word, and Romania’s streets ran red with blood, as they did in legends of old. The more things change, am I right?

Elena swooned at Nicolae’s bold choice, but her thrill was fleeting, because for the first time in his life–well, not the first, but the event was rare–the so-called “Genius of the Carpathians” had miscalculated. Historians can debate Nicolae’s deeply flawed decision until the sun envelops Mercury, Venus, Earth, and perhaps Mars in its suffocating embrace several billion years from next Wednesday, but what is indisputable is that five days later, three days before Christmas, Nicolae and Elena raced to the top of the Central Committee building and boarded a helicopter to avoid being slaughtered by protestors.

As he helped Elena into her seat, a magnificent silver ring slipped from Nicolae’s finger, a ring given to him by his grandfather, which he had received from his grandfather, and so on, and so on, no one knows how far back, but it is clear that the tradition began long before helicopters roamed the skies, and certainly long before a repressed Irish homosexual reduced a national hero to a pulp novel, blood-sucking bogeyman and a proud country’s name to a synonym for superstition, dysfunction, xenophobia, and corruption.

Nicolae’s great-great-great-et cetera-grandfather’s ring rolled out the door of the helicopter, onto the roof of the Central Committee building, and plummeted into the square below. A writhing mass of revolutionaries waited there, but their eyes were too full of hatred to see the ring, so they unknowingly stomped it into a gap between two cobblestones with their snow-covered boots.

The story of the cobblestones and the workers who quarried them is a tale for another time. It is an excellent story, but very, very sad.

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Three days after the government helicopter bearing serial number R239EWER498 rushed Nicolae and Elena northward, then northwestward, then flew no more–three days after that, A picked up the ring.

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I love a collective noun. It adds personality to something that would otherwise be generic, overlooked, invisible. Sure, you can call a bunch of ravens a “group” and still be invited to all the best parties, but it’s much more interesting to call that bunch an “unkindness”. A group is just a group, but an unkindness? That’s got oomph.

Other knockouts include:

• A shewdness of apes
• A cauldron of bats
• A consortium of crabs
• A murder of crows
• A parade of elephants
• A tower of giraffes
• A richness of martens
• A parliament of owls
• A prickle of porcupines
• A maelstrom of salamanders
• An audience of squid

And my personal favorite:

• A blessing of unicorns

Alas, collective nouns apply mostly to non-human animals. We have plenty of synonyms for groups of people–army, band, bevy, crew, crowd, gang, mob, throng, etc.–but they’re not applied consistently to particular collections of folks. A few phrases have entered our vocabulary like a “bevy of beauties” or a “gang of thieves”, but it’s mostly because we like the alliteration or the meter. You could just as easily say a “crush of beauties” of a “mob of thieves”, and no one would give you the stinkeye.

And so, I’d like to propose a few updates–a few collective nouns to give the English language more flair:

• A benevolence of nurses
• A menace of babydykes
• An ululation of bachelorettes
• A fetch of basic bitches
• An imbroglio of bros
• A besiegement of Beliebers
• A token of Chaturbators
• A scruff of circuit bears
• A closet of evangelicals
• A screech of debutantes
• An ossification of deacons
• A generosity of daddies
• A tintinnabulation of Hare Krishnas
• A kibble of furries
• A soupçon of normies
• A swoon of leather queens
• A supersaturation of influencers
• A snarl of DILFs
• A yawp of GILFS
• An abhorrence Log Cabin Republicans
• A transmutation of muscle Marys
• A slip of otters
• A protuberance of strippers
• A limpness of parTy queens
• A jaundice of Proud Boys
• A lacrymatory of theatre queens
• A potluck of Radical Faeries
• A hotpocket of stoned gamers
• A flatulence of vegans
• A spread of tarot card readers
• An arrogance of trade

And of course:

• A vanity of bloggers

My name is Angela, and I am a hater.

Most of all, I hate mitochondria. “How can you hate the ‘mighty mitochondria’?” you ask. To which I say, “You’ve hit the nail on the head”.

That “mighty mitochondria” mnemonic device that we all learned in grade school is insidious. Earwormy. To this day, I can’t hear the word “mighty” without quietly muttering “mitochondria” afterward.

In documentaries: “On the savanna, female lions let the rest of their pride know about intruders with a mighty [mitochondria].”

At work: “Our little Archibald is quite mature for his age. For his sixth birthday party, he wants to have the Mighty [mitochondria] Power Rangers.”

During late-night marathons of justifiably forgotten cartoons: “Here I come to save the day! It’s Mighty [mitochondria]!”

Damn you, powerhouse of the cell.

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My name is Steven, and I hate Rent. I’ve never been much of a musical theatre person anyway, but Rent is next-level dreadful.

Every theatre queen in the English-speaking world thinks it’s completely appropriate to burst into “Seasons of Love” on the subway, in a Lyft, in the middle of a budget meeting. Could you imagine if everyone did that with, say, “Who Let the Dogs Out”? Or “Baby Shark”? Civilization would come to a screeching halt, causing 99% of humanity to die of sudden whiplash. The world would be rebuilt by tribespeople from the Amazon, the Sahara, and the Great Rift Valley who’ve never been to Broadway, never heard a power ballad, never attended a junior high cast party and had to console a roomful of weepy teens bemoaning the unfairness of it all because they’ve spent a few weeks–“literally, my whole life!”–working on an audition piece to land a featured role in the spring musical, only to have that rare opportunity given to someone who “like, only got it because she has 5,000 followers on Instagram”.

Full disclosure, I’ve never actually seen Rent, so I don’t know what it’s about, but I assume it’s about people who rent an apartment or something? And that’s a terrible message. Why would anyone glorify rent payments? Home ownership is the most important means of building personal wealth in a capitalist economy. If we have to get excited about a musical, couldn’t it be called Fixed Rate or maybe I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Amortize?

Really, what are we teaching today’s young people?

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My name is Jonathan, and I’m a hater. I hate Meryl Streep.

I have nightmares about her.

I’m someplace far away in an open-air market. It looks exotic in a stereotypical way, with smoke wafting from incense sticks and brightly colored spices piled in rustic, handmade baskets. Maybe I’m in a souk, or maybe I’m in a souk-themed display at Pier One. Or maybe I’m in that episode of Ab Fab where they all go to Morocco, which I only remember because I’m an old gay.

Wherever it is, I’m there, and someone in a caftan sidles up to me and starts speaking in a foreign language. I can’t tell what they’re saying, I can’t even see their face, but they keep gesturing to me and then to my fanny pack. (Which, by the way: I’m wearing a fanny pack. Heavens. This is a nightmare.)

“What on goddess’ green earth do you want?”, I ask the creature at my side. More gesturing, more pointing. They put both hands together with upturned palms: the universal sign for begging.

I sigh, unzip my fanny pack, and take out what looks to be a reasonable sum of money. I can’t tell for sure because it’s foreign currency, so I guess I’m not at Pier One after all. (Unless they have Pier Ones in the Middle East, which makes me wonder: what would that even look like? Plastic, American flag-patterned storage bowls displayed like a Fourth of July picnic? Would that pass as exotic on the Arabian peninsula?)

I start to hand over the money, and suddenly, there’s a dagger in the mysterious stranger’s hand. The next thing I know, that dagger is jammed through my ribcage, and I’m on the ground wheezing for breath, and the stranger is standing over me with a bloody hand gripping the wad of cash I’d pulled out.

Then, they pull back the hood of their caftan.

You know who it is, right?

Surely you know.

Surely, queen.

Meryl. Fucking. Streep.

Goddammit.

Screw her ability to disappear into a role. Screw her supernatural facility with languages and accents. That bitch cut me, and she took my money.

I’ll see her in hell.

Hello, and welcome to the first day of spring.

Spring means many things. Animals awake from hibernation and hump everything in sight. High school seniors anxiously await their first taste of freedom, which they savor for about 30 seconds before the ice-cold mackerel of adulthood smacks them across the ass.

And by definition, spring also means that winter is over. Which means that this year, another Jesus-y fuckwit has been proven wrong with his End Times, rage fantasy bullshit. Unless you’ve all stopped watching porn, in which case: holy shit, the son of a bitch was right.

End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles is convinced that the earth is about to experience a new ice age that will last for hundreds of years and wipe out a large percentage of humanity … but, on the upside, it will also destroy Planned Parenthood.

“You can laugh, mock, ridicule all you want, but you’re going to end up freezing to death,” Wiles said on his “TruNews” program last night. “This thing is here, it’s arriving and it’s arriving quickly and it’s arriving this year. We’re going to see the onset of this ice age in the winter of 2018.”

After co-host Doc Burkhart explained that this coming ice age is “the result of man’s sin,” Wiles took solace in the idea that it will at least also “freeze out a lot of sin.”

“It will freeze out Planned Parenthood,” he said. “There won’t be very many abortions in America 15 or 20 years from now. There is not going to be a lot of pornography consumption. There is not going to be a lot of drug use. It’s going to freeze out a lot of sin, that’s for sure because a lot of people are going to be dead. That is just a fact. An ice age wipes out a substantial portion of the population.”

via Right Wing Watch

If I thought for one minute that Miss Wiles remembered what she said back in November, I’d laugh, mock, ridicule, and feel a warm, toasty sense of schadenfreude. Sadly, people that unhinged can barely remember to come in out of the rain, much less what they said to fill airtime five months ago.

Instead, I think I’ll celebrate by not freezing to death and by making my usual monthly gift to Planned Parenthood.