"That Kind of Fun"

Tragically, for the second time this month, a student at a Colorado university has died at a fraternity event. By all accounts both youngsters were extracurricularly involved, top students with good heads on their shoulders. The kind of students that universities covet and the kind of kids that make parents proud. I shudder to think at the loss their families and friends are feeling.

Unfortunately, the circumstances of their deaths reminded of some of the great insight offered by one of the luminaries of the Right. Speaking of Abu Ghraib, Rush Limbaugh, a bastion of moral rectitude, endorsed the torture of prisoners in the custody of the United States and described it as:

sort of like hazing, a fraternity prank. Sort of like that kind of fun.

I'm sure that if given the opportunity to console, Rush would nobly point out that these Colorado students died having the kind of fun that American soldiers are having in Iraq. Really, Rush might say, these students (and their fraternity brethren) were just doing their patriotic duty.

Good 'ol Rush. I'm glad he's on our side. I just wish he could have more of that kind of fun.