I would also have given pandas a real thumb

Jerry Falwell is, as you might know, dead.

I could perhaps write a post opining that his death is squarely the result of his displeasing God. Since, were I God, I would certainly have been displeased by Jerry Falwell. Being, you know, pretty sure I had made it clear that people are not supposed to act that way.

However, that is not why I am writing.

I am writing because, on my way home from work this evening, I noticed that at the post office down the street from my work, the flag there...

...was flying at half-staff.

Now, a brief searching around for a reason why that might be turned up nothing...other than the suspicion that some official representing our government...everyone in America's government...had taken it upon themselves to use a public facility to express sadness at the death of Jerry Falwell. The guy who blamed the 9/11 attacks on lesbians and the ACLU. The leader of a particularly virulent and hateful minority group of ultra-conservative religious extremists.

That is, in Pete's words, too terrible to contemplate.