allaboutwomen

Wouldn’t it be great to believe the battles fought in 2010 would make us wiser in 2011?

Don’t bet on it, to use Bob DeLeo’s favorite verb.

Our House speaker remains an unabashed proponent of expanded gambling, focusing only on its blood money, ignoring the horrible impact it would have on families, marriages and careers, to say nothing of the lowlifes it would beckon.

“If you read the bill,” Sen. Sue Tucker noted during the push for casinos, “you’ll find references to wiretapping, money laundering, enterprise crime; but what really got to me were the lines requiring casinos to check their parking lots every two hours for abandoned children.”

Gambling is a family disease, meaning the ones you love most are the ones you hurt most. This is what the government should encourage? Please.

No issue, however, remains more divisive and explosive than racial relations, which continue to be exploited and exacerbated by those who view themselves as champions of civil rights.

Henry Louis Gates began the year by announcing he planned to present the Smithsonian’s museum of black history with the handcuffs he wore after mouthing off to a cop, and Chuck Turner ended it by comparing himself to a whipped slave after a jury found him guilty of pocketing a bribe.

Men of Harvard, indeed.

Sarah Palin, of course, will continue to draw the wrath of left-wing lunatics who cannot fathom why the rest of America is intrigued by a happily married mother of five, one of whom served in harm’s way, another of whom was born with Down syndrome, meaning Mom understands what it means to live life on life’s terms.

Anchored in her faith, she’s not ashamed to say she doesn’t believe in the killing of unborn babies, and feels marriage means the union of a man and a woman.

So they look for reasons to mock her, even saying she’s too perky.

Perkiness? It might have served Barney Frank well on election night. Have you ever seen a more venomous, unpleasant incumbent?

Come to think of it, John Kerry looked just about as indignant and distraught when reporters demanded to know why the richest member of Congress tried to duck $500,000 in taxes on his $7 million boat.

This is a man of the people? What people? The oil barons?

And Tiger Woods offered additional food for thought: Why were we more disgusted by the carnality of a golfer than we were by the lascivious Bill Clinton? From whom should we have expected more?

Maybe 2011 will make better sense. Here’s hoping.