My Victim is Bigger Than Yours

If you haven't yet read anything by James Lileks of National Review Magazine, you really need to.  He gives Jonah Goldberg and Mark Steyn a run for their money when it comes to laugh-out-loud political commentary.

In the latest issue of the aforementioned periodical, he has penned a piece about the trouble a group of San Francisco moms are in for forming a club for, well, moms only.  They're being challenged for their illiberal exclusivity by, are you ready, gay fathers.

As Lileks says, "This complicates matters..."  Why?  Lileks:

This complicates matters, since the calculus involved in the Grievance Equations are baffling to the layperson.  Feminism usually trumps everything, unless there's multiculturalism involved, in which case Islam trumps discussion of women's rights, lest you be Islamophobic, which is racist.  Unless you're gay!  Wild card.  But you'd better not be one of those apostates like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born socially liberal critic of Islam, because she encourages the wrong people.  You know, the "some of my best friends are Dutch-nationality apostates living under a death threat" types who really hate Muslims.  You wish there were a smartphone app for it all--just punch in the groups, and let the phone connect to a vast database of New York Times editorials and NPR feature stories and tell you who's right.

I love it.  Such superb mockery of the liberal prison of which we are all, unfortunately, inmates--"you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave"--is hard to find.  But, while there appears to be no escape, there is, thank God, relief.  You'll find some in the musings of James Lileks.  Look for him.