The Petty and the Vile  From Westboro Baptist Church to Sen.
John McCain, LGBT people are unfortunately accustomed to vile
political attacks  By Sean Bugg Published on February 7, 2013,
9:18am | Comments  Crossing Twitter with gigantic cultural
events can always be counted on to bring out the worst in the
already bad. Two Super Bowl tweets were particularly vile. First
there was former FEMA director Michael Brown cracking a joke
about fights in the Superdome, which just happened to be the
site of his monstrous Hurricane Katrina failure — a joke that
requires both hubris and idiocy. Second was Todd Kincannon,
former head of the South Carolina GOP, joking that the Super
Bowl ''sucks more dick than adult Trayvon Martin would have for
drug money'' — a joke that requires racism and idiocy.  Lesson
one, racists have an awful sense of humor. Lesson two, even in
2013 with no rational reason, some people are going to remain
racist jackholes.  I don't believe that as a country we are more
vile today than we were in the