It would probably be an excellent time for a joke, Brucie.

Since this is a list on which the participation is, if not mature, at least well above legal age, it is non sequitur, or moot, to discuss any of our chosing to be adopted by ANYONE, gay or straight. This flame war is rapidly spiraling downward from idiotic to absurd.

Dick, that was a good call. Here's some background:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2096673/

Here's an extract from Slate regarding an article about Pegler written by Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. in the March 1, 2004 New Yorker

Pegler's career took off in 1933 when he became a nationally syndicated columnist with Scripps-Howard, roared along under the Hearst family, and ended 30 years later under the auspices of a twitchy sect of neo-Nazis and professional racists from the White Citizens Council and the Rev. Billy James Hargis' truly reptilian Christian Crusade. At his peak in the 1930s and 1940s, Pegler was a leading popularizer of one of the most concerted antidemocratic crusades in this country's history: the vicious backlash against the New Deal and the labor movement to which it gave legal protection. This anti-Roosevelt front included the country's major industrialists, anti-Semitic, red-baiting pamphleteers, Congressman Martin Dies' Committee on Un-American Activities, and an assortment of Depression-era demagogues (and men on horseback who conspired with Hitler's agents in this country).

Although Pegler did not turn against Roosevelt until the president's second term, he quickly became a shrill cheerleader for the right's campaign to paint the New Deal's democratic advances as an internationalist Communist plot. Pegler compared union advocates of the closed shop to Hitler's "goose-steppers." (In his view, the greatest threat to the country was the corrupt labor boss; his exposé of a union official's mob connections earned him a Pulitzer in 1941.) By the 1950s, however, Pegler was showing some nostalgia for the Third Reich. His proposal for "smashing" the AF of L and the CIO was for the state to take them over. "Yes, that would be fascism," he wrote. "But I, who detest fascism, see advantages in such fascism."

and

Westbrook Pegler, "The Lynching Story"
http://www.geocities.com/westbrook_pegler/Lynching.htm this link goes to a story Pegler wrote about lynchings in California.

"I claim authority to speak for the rabble because I am a member of the rabble in good standing".